UK Crowdfunding – a brief look

It’s a new buzzword in the field of filmmaking, but in truth, crowdfunding has been around for a while. Marillion used fan funding for several oftheir albums since 1997, and movies have been doing it since 2004 (Demain la Veille). I’ve never tried it myself, so I thought I’d take a look at the different [...]

Making Short Films on £1 a day

While some people have the luxury of a tremendous budget in order to make a short film, others find it more difficult to scrape together ten grand or so. There’s a fine line between creativity and business in “Show Business” (it’s a single space, usually) and it certainly seems a reasonable generalisation to say that [...]