Thursday, January 3, 2013

Kickstarter touts success of documentaries as it passes $100 million in film pledges

via www.indiewire.com

Kickstarter has announced that a total of $102.7 million has been pledged towards independent film projects since the site launched in mid-2009. Film, as we've already seen, pulls in some of the most money of any Kickstarter category, although individual projects don't make as much money as big-name design proposals. According to Kickstarter's overall stats, about $450 million has been pledged for all projects and $387 million collected; roughly the same percentage — totaling $85.7 million — of money in the film category was collected.


Within the film category, documentaries are the most heavily funded with about $43 million; narrative films received about $32 million and short films around $17 million. Documentary films and shorts,...


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/3/3832596/kickstarter-passes-100-million-in-pledged-funding-for-film

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