Alex Epstein knows:
CROWDFUNDING FOR FILMMAKERS
by Alex Epstein
I keep hearing that traditional funding for indie films is getting harder and harder.
I’m not sure it was ever that easy, unless you count the moment right after video stores came in and you could put together almost any cheesy erotic thriller or teenagers-in-a-cabin-in-the-woods horror movie and make a direct-to-video movie. If you read Joe Camp’s book about how he funded BENJI, the sleeper dog movie hit of 1974, he had a lot of trouble getting his movie made, and then more trouble getting it into theaters.