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The Current Crowdfunding Pitch
The Current Crowdfunding Pitch 2011
Get your documentary or interactive project funded by the best financiers out there - EVERYONE.
Pitch to get £2000 towards your film...or more!
Supported by Current (Sky 183/Virgin Media 155/current.com) for our June 2011 festival Sheffield Doc/Fest will again be holding a crowd funding pitch, where five top international projects will compete to win a pot of money crowd funded from Doc/Fest's delegates and community. These 5 projects will pitch on stage at Sheffield Doc/Fest's crowdfunding day on Saturday June 11th. They'll need to impress the audience with your outreach and community engagement plan as much as your project's content - we're looking for films and projects that understand how to build and maintain fans, followers and communities.
The Winner
Congratulations to Heather Leach with Dancing With Hugo Boss
This year's The Current Crowdfunding Pitch Campaign is now up and running on this IndieGoGo campaign - please contribute and get us to our target of £2000 for the participants to pitch for.
In 2010, we and you raised £1500, won in the pitch by Stephen Burton's This is Me. This year, let's go even better and raise even more.
What happens next?
We have selected 5 projects who have been combined into a single Doc/Fest project on IndieGoGo, for which we are now collectively raising finance towards a goal of £2000. The chosen projects will pitch live on stage at Doc/Fest to a panel including representatives of crowd funding sites, alternative distribution/funding experts, and outreach strategists. The audience at the pitch on Saturday June 11th will vote for a winner, who will receive the overall pot of money pledged by Doc/Fest delegates. The pitch will take place on Saturday 11th June. After the pitch, all projects should setup their own individual crowdfunding pages, so that everyone can raise further money.
Not at the festival? You will be able to view the crowdfunding pitch and take part in voting for a winner, courtesy of The Cuban Hat, right here - visit the Cuban Hat site at 1600 UK time on Saturday June 11th, see the pitches live and vote for your winner
Any queries?
Email charlie@sidf.co.uk and ask!
What is Crowdfunding?
Crowdfunding is raising some or all of your film's budget by going straight to the general industry and public, whether they're your fans, followers, collaborators, audience, or people with an interest in your subject.
The Current Crowdfunding Pitch will be part of Crowdfunding Day on Saturday June 11th, which will be a series of sessions on the landscape of crowd funding, the options for raising money from the crowd, what it means for engaging communities and having social impact, and what this means for documentary funding and business-building in the future.
For some deeper information and links to various Crowdfunding platforms check out the excellent Digital Bootcamp Wiki on Crowdfunding and its related concept, Crowdsourcing.
This is a report from the Guardian on Crowd-funding filmed at Doc/Fest in 2010.
For more information on Crowdfunding at Doc/Fest 2011, please download the PDF on the left of the screen
What happened in 2010?
In 2010, we ran a great workshop called Seize The Future, for alternative financing and marketing. Doc/Fest broke new ground by introducing a pitch for factual projects that were looking to be financed by the best funders on the planet - YOU
We selected six brilliant projects who pitched live on stage on Saturday 6th November at Sheffield Doc/Fest - you can read about them all on our archived IndieGoGo project page here. We asked the Doc/Fest community to pledge money to a central pot and then asked the audience to decide on an overall winner who won the pot. This was your chance to participate in the crowd funding revolution, and support a new way forward for funding independent documentary making.
The winner of £1500 pledged by YOU was Stephen Burton with "This is Me" - thank you to everyone who contributed!
The projects were all at different stages, so the money was available to help with development, production, post-production, outreach or another side of making their film. There were lots of treats and prizes on offer if you contributed - from a good firm hug to tea and cake to Doc/Fest beer, to a mysterious personal tour of Sheffield and the Peak District. The best prize is knowing that you've been part of a community that's directly supporting getting docs made.
Read all about it on our archived fundraising page here