Category: Creative Distribution Initiative

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Political Safari: Jarreth Merz on Making ‘An African Election’

My first memory about politics in Africa began with the execution of former heads of state in Ghana, live on television in 1979. I remember the dimly lit shack, a flickering black and white television, which my friends and I were glued to and the sound of the shots as the bodies went limp. Thirty-three years later, I’m still searching for the footage, and not very successfully, since the archives have burnt down and all the material have been destroyed, or so I am told.

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Kickstarter & Double Fine: A Seismic Shift?

Simon Pulman works for Starlight Runner Entertainment in New York City, specializing in digital strategy and business development. He explores the emerging world of transmedia storytelling and digital business models on his blog at Transmythology.com, and can be followed on twitter at @simonpulman.

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Kickstart 18 Days in Egypt

Jigar Mehta is a digital entrepreneur and video journalist. He is the co-founder of the collaborative storytelling platform GroupStream which powers his documentary project 18 Days in Egypt. Visit the 18 Days in Egypt Kickstarter page to help fund the hiring of young Egyptian journalists and students to travel throughout Egypt to collect stories from the last year.

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Kickstart FOURPLAY

Kyle Henry is filmmaker using Kickstarter to fund his project FOURPLAY, an anthology of shorts including Fourplay: Tampa which is in this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Click here to join the push to complete production on the feature anthology. So we’re at Sundance, about to screen Fourplay: Tampa, one of the shorts that comprise our anthology of shorts feature FOURPLAY, and suddenly I’m a bit nervous.

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Everything You Wanted to Know About Digital Deliverables (But Were Afraid to Ask)

Few people go into the business of making films because of a passion for file conversions or frame rate quandaries. But the truth is that every filmmaker who wants his or her film to be seen, screened, distributed, or streamed needs to contend with these and other issues pertaining to the swiftly changing world of digital deliverables. Gone are the days when reels of 35mm film were all you needed to show your film; now you need to juggle between ProRes files, HDCAMs, and DCPs—and that’s just for starters.

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Producer Danielle DiGiacomo on Raising Funds for the Autism Documentary Best Kept Secret

Danielle DiGiacomo is an independent film producer, consultant, and programmer based in New York City. She participated at the 2011 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab and is currently working on Elijah Rosenberg’s Ad Inexplorata, an FFP-supported project.On November 21, five days after the Best Kept Secret Kickstarter campaign was launched, I received the following Facebook message from a Hebrew school friend I haven’t seen since shortly after her bat mitzvah.

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Kick It: “ToasT” Takes The Leap of Faith

Lemon Andersen’s play “ToasT” is being presented in collaboration with Under The Radar Festival at the famed Public Theater in New York City. Elise Thoron (who helped to develop and directed County of Kings and Washi Tales) and street artists will be collaborating with set designers to help him bring it to life. “ToasT” is raising production funding on Kickstarter and was recently supported with a development grant from the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab.

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Kickstart When the Drum is Beating

Whitney Dow is an award-winning filmmaker whose directing credits include the 2002 Sundance Film Festival documentary Two Towns of Jasper and the Documentary Film Grant recipient When the Drum is Beating, among others. He is using Kickstarter to help fund global distribution of When the Drum is Beating. Click here to help the film reach its goal.

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