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Crowdfunding inconnu 03/24/15 (Tue) 06:24:27 No.4118

What's your impression of the crowdfunded projects you watched? Amateurish or shades of greatness?

I've only seen Blue Ruin and Indie Game: The Movie. Blue Ruin raised the bar IMO. I didn't even know it was crowdfunded until afterwards. It was on par with other enjoyable low budget thrillers.

Indie Game was not perfect but still interesting enough. I don't think it's as difficult to make a documentary, but it's cool that crowdfunding allows niche ideas or topics to be promoted.

inconnu 03/25/15 (Wed) 06:47:28 No.4145

YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.

i've noticed some interesting concepts even if i don't seem to get around to watching the finished product.

this one for instance just won an award at sxsw

inconnu 03/25/15 (Wed) 13:04:52 No.4148

If not for that shitty actor they used for that one /k/ dude, I'd say the movie was perfect

inconnu 03/25/15 (Wed) 14:44:35 No.4149

Hey, I didn't know Blue Ruin was crowd funded.

my experience with CF films is limited to BR and IG:TM as well.
I wonder if the Zach Braff film he kickstarted is any good.

inconnu 05/10/15 (Sun) 21:17:30 No.4590

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Orson Welles asks if you can spare some change:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/other-side-of-the-wind-orson-welles-last-film

If this film finally gets released I'm all for it.

http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2015/04/orson-welles-the-other-side-of-the-wind-making-of

inconnu 05/10/15 (Sun) 22:22:48 No.4591

>>4590

Bogdonavich getting touchy feely with the big man

inconnu 05/13/15 (Wed) 03:35:54 No.4614

>>4590

>supporting directors

hack central.

inconnu 05/13/15 (Wed) 04:37:19 No.4615

>>4614

ha ha, where's McG?

inconnu 07/20/15 (Mon) 22:23:05 No.5275

Fred Wiseman just failed (by over 50K) to raise 75K for a new documentary on Jackson Heights NY.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/220982260/frederick-wisemans-in-jackson-heights

This trailer makes it look like diversity propaganda, with more of an overt viewpoint than Wiseman typically injects. Perhaps that was part of the pitch for money? At any rate I'll probably seek it out anyway.

https://vimeo.com/126135695

https://vimeo.com/130340433

inconnu 07/21/15 (Tue) 00:21:03 No.5277

well jorodowsky crowdfunded his current film on kickstarter so lets see how that works out

inconnu 07/21/15 (Tue) 06:10:18 No.5283

I aint a fan. I bet it's like 99% of every project that's getting funded (or promoted at least) has a very thick progressive agenda so blatant that even filthy casuals can spot it.

Or is that just uncle /pol creeping over my shoulder?

inconnu 07/21/15 (Tue) 06:11:20 No.5284

>>5283

Oh and the begging people you don't even know for many is pretty pathetic too. Those are my two main issues with crowdsourcing.

inconnu 07/21/15 (Tue) 18:57:19 No.5287

>>5275

>Perhaps that was part of the pitch for money?

This is the problem with crowdfunding. People think it's an opportunity to sidestep "meddling producers" and let the creators build exactly what they want to build, but it's just as much catering to the market, the only innovation is disbursing the producer's risk onto the consumer while also keeping the profits to themselves. It's exploitative and pathetic, and as anyone can predict, it's just producing lots of safe, uninspired, trendy trash.

inconnu 07/22/15 (Wed) 17:40:16 No.5295

>>5287

What he said.

/thread

>mods please sticky for future reference

inconnu 07/24/15 (Fri) 13:54:30 No.5313

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>>5283

I wish you were wrong but that really is the case with most of these documentary movies that depend on crowd funding. A project for a documentary that goes against the grain of what is acceptable nowadays would probably be taken down in no time and anyone who contributes would be mercilessly attacked for displaying bad think publicly. I just went to kickstarter and found their page where they show off successful movie projects:

https://www.kickstarter.com/watch?ref=category_spotlight

>Indie Game: The Movie

We now know what kind of person Phil Fish is. Watch this movie and then take a look at what this person really is like behind closed doors.

>GTFO

GTFO is a film exposing the harassment of women in video games. It features gamers, bloggers, scholars, developers, and other experts.

>Brooklyn Castle

Feel good documentary for whites about a poor black inner city chess club beating all odds.

>MUDBLOODS

A film about the imaginary game of quidditch and the people who transformed it into a real-life sport.

>CALL ME KUCHU

Four LGBT Ugandans fight for justice and freedom on the frontlines of Africa's gay rights movement.

>KEEP THE LIGHTS ON

Ira Sachs' KEEP THE LIGHTS ON is a new film about gay life and love in New York City.

>I AM DIVINE wants MONEY!!

I'm not sure if this movie is about a tranny or crossdresser. I remember that she/he's well known for eating dog shit on film back in the 70's.

>Jamie and Jessie are Not Together

Jamie is moving from Chicago to New York in 2 weeks, to follow her dream of becoming a Broadway actress. Her best friend, Jessica, is bummed, because she is not-so-secretly in love with her.

I'm not cherry picking this is the first 8 movies I saw on their page where they list films available to watch on iTunes. I'm fine with gay cinema(there's a DVD of the movie Poison besides me as I type this) but this is absolutely ridiculous. You don't need to be a white nationalist /pol/ user to realize this isn't normal.

inconnu 07/24/15 (Fri) 15:22:31 No.5314

Interesting. I was curious to see if Kickstarter has started removing projects for bad press or political reasons. Here they apologize for allowing a pickup artist guide to be funded:

https://www.kickstarter.com/blog/we-were-wrong

I don't know the specifics of this project, but it seems like they're sliding into the same culturally allowable behavior as many other popular websites.

inconnu 07/24/15 (Fri) 16:32:49 No.5315

>>5313

That is such bullshit. I wonder how well these progressive kickstarter employees would fare outside the safe space of san francisco?

Do these people even realize how much of a joke they are outside of their liberal group of friends?

inconnu 01/25/16 (Mon) 23:26:08 No.6615

>>5315

I wonder how well a documentary about jew vampire hunters and the blood rite would do.

My guess is you can't go against a grain that "doesn't exist" ;)