![]() I’m not your family, or your friend, or your work mate. But if we haven’t met, please don’t pretend we have. Yes, it’s great you’re making a documentary film about human rights abuses in Thailand or your very first film! It’s really great – I truly mean that. But we’re on LinkedIn, he said, we have twelve connections in common! That’s not enough. I was so annoyed that I searched my computer and finding nothing, emailed the filmmaker and asked him to cut it out. “Faux” meaning the email used the good ol’ “Hey, FILL IN NAME! How are you these days FILL IN NAME.” Recently I was faux-personally emailed three times from a person whose name wouldn’t ring a bell for a thousand years. No matter how high the quality of your campaign is, you still have to enlist support carefully. Between the lack of hard sell and the quality of this campaign, who would not be inspired to support this filmmaker? Actually, this is a short film that I story consulted on which brings me to another point - don’t be shy - definitely ask those you worked with to support the campaign! Why wouldn’t they? They just get deleted.Īnd - how did I receive the Kickstarter for The Last Hurrah? I asked to see it. Low production values, amateurish looking interviews or clips do not get anybody excited. If there is ever a time you should invest 200% of yourself, it is on your campaign. Isn't that the point of your campaign? To instill faith?īut I have seen scant few of the Kickstarters of this quality. This makes me believe the completed project will also be excellent. It is playful, it is expertly produced and it makes me want to support the writer and director, Keith Tutera, because he obviously invested a huge amount of effort into this campaign. The campaign itself is in the noir style. It’s still entertainment, folks, it’s a competitive world, and there are other filmmakers nipping at your heels and taking your dollars.Ĭheck out this Kickstarter for a short noir film called The Last Hurrah. There is somebody out there who’s Kickstarter, in other words, is better than yours. While Kickstarter lowers barriers to entry as never before, it is still competitive. More of us can express with more freedom and less barriers than ever before. This is an extraordinarily exciting time for art, film and literature. Supporting independent creatives is just plain good karma because the whole world benefits. Crowdfunding is a brilliant way to support independent filmmakers. ![]() Those who did not (and do not) “make it” in Hollywood often fall under the category of writers who are not a fit for a Hollywood in which creative decisions are made by corporations betting on overseas DVD sales and merchandising. Nobody wants to take a chance on unproven writers with funny ideas about originality.Įnter Kickstarter, one of several popular crowd funding platforms to help filmmakers raise the money for their own projects. Everybody wanted to break in to Hollywood. When I began consulting with screenwriters in Hollywood over a decade ago, screenwriters were driven by the brief phenomena of bidding wars and Shane Black paychecks. ![]() We've worked hard over the last decade to build a different kind of company, one that measures its success by how well it achieves its mission: helping to bring creative projects to life," Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan said in an emailed statement.But I am not excited about your Kickstarter project. "We support and respect this decision, and we are proud of the fair and democratic process that got us here. The employees then filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board, which has yet to resolve, according to Vice. Kickstarter employees had also accused the company of distributing anti-union materials as they sought to get representation. The historic 46-37 vote in favor of unionizing comes after a contentious process, which involved the firing of two Kickstarter employees who were leading the efforts. Kickstarter employees have officially unionized after a vote was tallied Tuesday, marking the first full-time workers at a tech company to do so as more across the industry look to organize. Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories."We support and respect this decision, and we are proud of the fair and democratic process that got us here," Kickstarter CEO Aziz Hasan said in an emailed statement.Workers voted 46-37 in favor of unionizing after a heated back and forth with management that included the firing of two workers leading the organizing efforts.Kickstarter employees have unionized, making them the first full-time employees at a tech company to do so as more across the industry look to organize. ![]()
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