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About Best 5 Short Film Crowdfunding Campaigns to Watch during A Lockdown
These days crowdfunding campaign is trend and used as marketing tool to raise funds and even to promote a product or film project or a cause. Due to this popularity factor, the pledging became a game and highly competitive due to thousands of live projects on every crowdfunding platform. To build a successful crowdfunding campaign you have start from scratch, from planning to closing the campaign.
What is crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding is a way to raise money from a large number of people. Large groups of people pool together small individual investments to provide the capital needed to get a company or film project off the ground. Creators, product visionary, Individuals, charities or companies can create a Crowdfunding campaign for specific causes and anyone can contribute.
6 Types of crowdfunding campaigns:
- Securities-based crowdfunding provides opportunities for people to invest in private companies(like startups).
- Donation-based crowdfunding is when someone donates to a specific cause or charity.
- Reward-based crowdfunding is exactly what it sounds like. People donate to unlock a specific reward linked to the project they support.
- Peer-to-peer lending allows individuals to obtain loans directly from other individuals without a bank or other financial institution acting as a middleman. Think of this as debt crowdfunding.
- Real estate crowdfunding offers individuals opportunities to invest in real estate projects. This is especially useful for people who are interested in real estate investing, but don’t want to deal with mortgage brokers, real estate agents, or contractors.
- Human capital crowdfunding is a way for people to raise money to back their personal growth or projects. Investors are given the opportunity to fund a project in exchange for a share of the winnings.
Short film crowdfunding campaign are nowadays become popular to get funds to execute the film project. They will declare the use of funds and launch the campaigns in popular crowdfunding self serve platforms like Kickstarter, Wishberry, Ketto, Indiegogo, Etc.,
Noticeable 5 kickstarter Short film crowdfunding campaign
Soli Bula – An Indigenous Animated Short Film
Storyline: SOLI BULA- In an alternate reality Fiji where tradition and culture was never eroded by Westernisation, a Fijian man experiences his last day as a human sacrifice in a traditional ceremony of the launch of a giant canoe. The Fiji Islands, today. It looks familiar. Yet, it’s different. It’s a Fiji that is the same as it was 1000 years ago. A harsh, uncompromising land of rigid adherence to Tradition but with all the trappings of the modern era.
On this auspicious day, a giant, double hulled canoe, called a ‘Drua’, is destined to be launched with full pomp and ceremony at sea. And in all the flurry, there is a man who, along with others, is lined up to be a human human sacrifice for the Drua.
Calm, Ordinary – A Short Film
Storyline: Calm, Ordinary is a short film about loneliness and the commodification of intimacy, written and directed by Claudia Paterson, Set over the course of one day, Calm, Ordinary follows a lost young woman with money troubles and an isolated older man as they are brought together by a service offering friendship for rent.
Calm, Ordinary stars Rose Basista (Eleanor Rising) as Conna, Hugh Sachs (The Libertine, Bridgerton) as Bryan and Matt Whitchurch (Call The Midwife, The Outcast) as Hugo.
ESSENTIAL WORKER – A Short Film
Storyline:
ESSENTIAL WORKER tells the hard-hitting story of supermarket employee Ruby and follows her as she prepares for an early morning shift. Leaving behind the comfort of her family home, she heads to work and an unknown day as the memories of previous abusive encounters fly around inside her head, showing the immense psychological strain these fleeting encounters can have.
Authenticity is key to this film, and as such we’ve sourced all of these “memories” from real retail workers, giving a first-hand account of what they have to go through on a daily basis.
The testimonials we’ve received have been truly horrifying. Wether it’s rebuffing unwanted sexual advances from customers, being belittled, chastised for their sexuality or how they choose to dress, threatened with violence or being physically assaulted (punched, slapped, spat on) the list unfortunately is long and abhorrent, but responsibility doesn’t just lie with the customer, in a lot of these cases employers are implicit either through an unwillingness to believe and engage with their staff or are active participants in the abuse.
ESSENTIAL WORKER is a mirror that we want everyone (from customers to employers) to take a long hard look at themselves in, and to really think about the power they hold and the impact they can have if they choose to.
Blood Seekers – A science fiction short film
Storyline: It is a short story about two agents who are living in a dystopian future in which their government forces them to work as seekers for blood and DNA. Different from what the first impression suggests, this story isn’t about fast action and bloody corpses in every scene. It’s much more like a character-based tale with affection for details, starring two partners who are getting into a life-defining situation and how they deal with it. This is one of the Best 5 Short Film Crowdfunding Campaigns to Watch during A Lockdown.
AFTER | A Sexual Assault Short Film
Storyline:
In 2017, I was raped. For the years after, I avoided my feelings on it. I thought I was alone in the whirl of anger, confusion and numbness. When I began seeing people online talk about their stories, and realised how similar they were to my own, I realised the power in sharing. Listening to each other can inspire others to come forward with their own stories, and perhaps even begin to change the sexist narrative that is pushed on young girls and boys; that girls are objects to be played with, and boys must not share their feelings.
In the UK, 97% of women aged 18-24 have been sexually harassed or worse, with over 70% of all women in the UK experiencing some level of sexual harassment (UN Women UK). Only around 15% of those who experience sexual violence report to the police (Rape Crisis England and Wales), with it being suggested that report rates from males are especially low.
We hope that this film will be seen internationally, and that many people of all genders who may have gone through something similar will finally feel like they are not alone. Maybe they can even begin to share their stories, and lift a weight from their shoulders. For those that haven’t been through it, we hope to shed some light on what it can be like, and what you can do to help someone if they come to you with their story.
I’ve wanted to make this film for a while now and to finally be making it feels surreal. But I know that I’m doing the right thing and the fire that fuels this film is burning brighter than ever. This is one of the Best 5 Short Film Crowdfunding Campaigns to Watch during A Lockdown.
The Neighbor – Shortfilm
Storyline:
“The Neighbor” is a narrative short film discussing how we perceive ourselves and the self-doubt in creative process. The film tries to depict the confusing line between reality and our own illusion. How can artists believe that they are more special than others? What if his mind set actually makes them ordinary?
I hope you love this short film crowdfunding campaign collection, every month we will share an upcoming crowdfunding campaign. If you would like to feature and promote your crowdfunding short film project, contact us without any hesitation. This is one of the Best 5 Short Film Crowdfunding Campaigns to Watch during A Lockdown.
Funding raising for short film projects are no more complex process. Lot of indian based as well as international crowdfunding platforms available to support upcoming and professional filmmakers to launch crowdfunding campaigns. All the best to all independent filmmakers in this world.
M.Selvam, Founder and CEO, Shortfundly
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