ArtistShare for Film

Filmmaker Paul Devlin has been spending time sharing his experiences with his most recent project BLAST!. I mentioned his article on festival strategy and I had a chance to also catch up with his article on ArtistShare, an alternative funding model that he experimented with on the project.
The concept behind ArtistShare actually started with musicians. [...]

Are you from Texas and making a film? If so, you might be eligble to apply to Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund for a project grant! The postmark deadline is June 2 so check out the guidelines now, and AFS’s Director of Artistic Services Bryan Poyser will be hitting cities around the state [...]

Are you from Texas and making a film? If so, you might be eligble to apply to Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund for a project grant! The postmark deadline is June 2 so check out the guidelines now, and AFS’s Director of Artistic Services Bryan Poyser will be hitting cities around the state [...]

Are you from Texas and making a film? If so, you might be eligble to apply to Austin Film Society’s Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund for a project grant! The postmark deadline is June 2 so check out the guidelines now, and AFS’s Director of Artistic Services Bryan Poyser will be hitting cities around the state [...]

Pitch Your Film! Nov. 3 in NJ

NEHST Studios will be holding in Teaneck, New Jersey, on Nov. 3rd. NEHST Studios is actively looking to fill up its large slate of projects to shoot within the next two/three years, and Larry Meistrich (Oscar winning producer of Sling Blade, You Can Count on Me, Belly and Croupier) will be holding a pitch session [...]

Ann Arbor’s Lawsuit Against Michigan

I went to the Austin Film Festival’s French Legation BBQ on Friday and ran into Christen McArdle, the executive director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, who reminded me about their battle for state funding without censorship of the films that they show. I am hoping to meet up with Christen and get some more [...]

Ann Arbor’s Lawsuit Against Michigan

I went to the Austin Film Festival’s French Legation BBQ on Friday and ran into Christen McArdle, the executive director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, who reminded me about their battle for state funding without censorship of the films that they show. I am hoping to meet up with Christen and get some more [...]

Ann Arbor’s Lawsuit Against Michigan

I went to the Austin Film Festival’s French Legation BBQ on Friday and ran into Christen McArdle, the executive director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, who reminded me about their battle for state funding without censorship of the films that they show. I am hoping to meet up with Christen and get some more [...]

Article: Filmmakers hope for online funds

For Variety, Scott Kirsner reports on the new way some entrepreneurial producers are utilizing the internet to raise production budgets:
“The tactic’s been tried since the early days of the Internet, but a fresh crop of entrepreneurs thinks the time could finally be ripe.
In mid-March, Portland filmmakers Steve Herring and Rebecca Rodriguez started selling $10 ‘memberships [...]

Report: How Artists Build Careers

The Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota recently released a report by the Project on Regional and Industrial Economics (PRIE) entitled “Crossover: How Artists Build Careers Across Commercial, Nonprofit and Community Work” (download the PDF for free).
From the website, “this study finds that many artists’ work spans two or [...]