Tuesday, May 11th, 2010 - 7:00PM ICM Screening Room, MGM Tower, Century City
Is it time to take online film financing seriously? Hell yeah, we think so. Micro-transactions online are exploding, social networking platforms are reaching critical scale, and websites such as Kickstarter.com are combining these models with innovative rewards into an effective recipe for online film financing. The only question: who will be the first to raise a $1M budget online?
Robert Greenwald proved he could raise about $350K. And others are already successfully raising $10-30K on Kickstarter.com as we speak. We'll be joined by Kickstarter.com CEO Perry Chen who will be flying in from NYC, and others to discuss all of this as well as the techniques that might be employed to do it.
We've assembled a short history on Kickstarter via some short press articles:
Cash for Geeks: Kickstarter Connects Projects With Patrons, Wired Magazine, March, 2010
Kickstarter Launches Another Social Fundraising Platform, TechCrunch.com, Apr 29, 2009
Complimentary Cocktails.