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A Tale Of Two Rivers (Kickstarter Campaign) Crowdfunding

Anatomy Of A Successfully Crowdfunded Documentary Film’s Kickstarter Campaign

This in-depth article is a post-mortem of 2015’s successful Kickstarter campaign for the A Tale Of Two Rivers film project. I’ll be looking at every element of the campaign – financial details included – and sharing some of the insights we learned along the way about running successful crowdfunding campaigns. The campaign aimed to raise post-production funds for two feature-length adventure films, […]

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A Tale Of Two Rivers (Kickstarter Campaign) Crowdfunding

We Did It! (Community Action 1, Mass Media 0!)

I’m up early this morning to begin working in earnest on two new film projects… which have just been successfully funded on Kickstarter! At the close of play last night, we’d raised the astonishing total of £26,329 – over 110% of our goal – to do this project properly. And that’s all thanks to the community […]

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A Tale Of Two Rivers (Kickstarter Campaign) Crowdfunding

With 59 hours to go, here’s more on the ‘what’ and the ‘why’ of A Tale Of Two Rivers

If you’re lucky enough to have a long weekend off for Easter, I hope you’ve got some fun things lined up for it! As it happens, Tenny and I are at a good friend’s wedding in Shropshire, England, and I’m dashing off this post while getting dressed up in a borrowed suit to pretend I’m a […]

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A Tale Of Two Rivers (Kickstarter Campaign) Crowdfunding

Is Kickstarter Still Viable For Small-Scale Independent Creatives?

Kickstarter seems to have changed dramatically in the couple of years since I successfully crowdfunded Janapar. Back then it was the domain of creative eccentrics eager to launch passion projects that wouldn’t stand a chance of being funded in any other way. Through Kickstarter, they could reach out directly to like-minded people and ultimately create something that sidestepped […]

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A Tale Of Two Rivers (Kickstarter Campaign) Crowdfunding

Q&AA (Questions & Attempted Answers) About The New Film Project And The Kickstarter Campaign To Fund It

We’ve almost reached 25% of our funding goal in less than 4 days! 155 (and counting) of you absolute legends are responsible for this. Check it out here. This is an amazing effort by everyone – but we’ve still got a stupendously long way to go. In this post, I’d like to share some answers […]

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A Tale Of Two Rivers (Kickstarter Campaign) Crowdfunding Karun Source To Sea (2014) Riding The Rio Santa Cruz (2014)

Announcing a community-backed project to make TWO brand new adventure films (about more than just heroics)

Link: The Kickstarter campaign is live! Click here to see what’s happening. Welcome to today’s blog post. I’m just going to go ahead and casually announce the biggest and most ambitious creative project of my career to date. OK? OK. So… I sometimes describe myself, when pressed, as an adventure filmmaker. (Among other things.) And […]

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Crowdfunding Janapar (2013)

Anatomy Of A Successful Kickstarter Campaign (And What You Should Know Before Launching Yours)

In late 2012 I took a gamble on crowdfunding my first book project. After three weeks of planning and preparation, I clicked the ‘launch’ button early one morning from the comfort of my bed, and nodded off for a little doze. What happened next was this: £300 in pledges had come in before I got […]