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Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films and over $250 million has been raised for films just on Kickstarter alone. This book will guide you through every stage of planning, creating, and running your film crowdfunding campaign. Based on extensive data research and interviews, the tips and strategies featured in How to Crowdfund Your Film include: Data research on over 50,000 film crowdfunding campaigns Interviews with over 50 filmmakers who have run crowdfunding campaigns Interviews with some of the top people at major crowdfunding platforms and services.

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Stephen drills down on data to discover truths about the film industry. Totally worth a read. --Ted Hope, Head of Production, Amazon Original Movies Stephen's research is brilliant. No-one is doing data-driven analysis of the film industry quite like Stephen Follows. His detailed research and reporting about the film industry is unique and invaluable. --Jonathan Wolf, managing director, American Film Market

Totally worth a read -- Ted Hope * Amazon Original Movies * Unique and invaluable -- Jonathan Wolf * Head of American Film Market * Stephen is one of the most gifted producers I know -- Chris Jones * author of The Guerrilla Filmmakers Handbook * This book will guide you through every stage of planning, creating and running your film's crowdfunding campaign * Crowdfunding Playbook * As filmmaking books go, this is one of the rare ones: useful, uncluttered, very easy-to-read, packed with great ideas and pleasingly free of academic B.S * Starburst *

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Stephen Follows is a writer, producer and storytelling consultant. His work has been featured in outlets such as the New York Times, Times, Telegraph and Guardian, and he has taught at institutions such as the National Film and Television School, Met Film School, NYU and Filmbase. His website (stephenfollows.com) features a variety of filmmaking resources, including a crowdfunding inspirations tool. Stephen has produced corporate video work for a variety of clients ranging from computer game giants (Bethesda), technology giants (Nokia Siemens Networks) and sporting giants (Jonny Wilkinson), but sadly no actual giants. He's shot people in love, in the air, on the beach and on fire (although not at the same time) across over a dozen different countries in locations ranging from the Circle Line to the Arctic Circle. When he has the time, he drinks tea in the office of his production company and leading online video agency, Catsnake (catsnake.com), in Ealing Studios.

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