Startup Film School with Stacey Parks of FilmSpecific.com

Financing Your MicroBudget Film: A Crowdfunding Case Study


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In this case study, filmmakers J.T. Arbogast and Kimberly Dilts discuss how they turned to crowd funding to raise part of their $500K budget for their feature film "Angel's Perch".

Kim and J.T. discuss:

• How they decided on the budget for AP and to make it a micro budget movie
• What the overall financing plan for the project is and why they decided to make crowd funding a part of it
• How did you decide where to set your financial goal at for the campaign? What did you intend to pay with crowd funding proceeds?
• How long they prepared before launching the campaign and what they did to prepare
• What they did once the campaign started to keep momentum going and the funds coming in
• What the promotional plan for the campaign was and how it ended up working out in reality
• What was pivotal in making them exceed their financial goal on Kickstarter
• Looking back, what they would have done differently with the campaign?
• How they leveraged crowd funding for additional fiscal sponsorship in their film and how they are combining both traditional investment & fiscal sponsorship to raise the entire budget of their film

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Startup Film School with Stacey Parks of FilmSpecific.comBy Stacey Parks/ Independent Film / Filmmaking