Film Funding

Film Funding | Filmmaking | Interviews | Rhode Island

The Passion and Persistence of Giovanis

26 Jul , 2015 | Posted by:

After talking to award-winning filmmaker Evangelos Giovanis, whose film Bereave screens at Woods Hole Film Festival this month, about everything from waiting tables to European film festivals, it is clear that the Giovanis brothers are a genuine and hardworking team with a vision.

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Film Funding | Kickstart New England | Massachusetts | Reports

Kickstart New England: Laila B

7 Jul , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Boston filmmaker Amy DePaola seeks Kickstarter support for her upcoming feature Laila B, a film about Laila Bataglia, a bartender whose life is transformed when she is attacked outside her home. The film is inspired by events from DePaola’s life, and will include real footage of her boxing and training for October’s “Belles of the Brawl” at the House of Blues in Boston.

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Distribution | Females in Film | Film Funding | Interviews | Vermont

Film Financing and Finding the Audience

26 Jun , 2015 | Written by Catherine Stewart | Posted by:

​Fellow female filmmakers discuss work, life, and more in this new series, Females in Film. For this installment, NewEnglandFilm.com writer Catherine Stewart talks to Kerstin Karlhuber about the fundraising and distribution for her feature film, Fair Haven.

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Females in Film | Film Funding | Filmmaking | Interviews | Massachusetts

Burning, Kickstarter Success Story

11 Jun , 2015 | Written by Catherine Stewart | Posted by:

Fellow female filmmakers discuss work, life, and more in this new series, Females in Film. For this installment, NewEnglandFilm.com writer Catherine Stewart talks to Boston-based filmmaker, Rebecca Maddalo about her film Burning.

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Film Funding | Filmmaking | Kickstart New England | Massachusetts | Reports

Kickstart New England

11 May , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Kickstart New England take a look at ‘In Between Seconds’ a film hoping to raise $7,000 for production and post-production.

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Film Funding | Filmmaking | Interviews | Local Industry | Massachusetts

Global Peace Into Action

28 Apr , 2015 | Written by Ted Ryan | Posted by:

Having gone through the IFP Filmmaker Labs and in the midst of a Kickstarter campaign, Boston-based filmmaker James Demo talks about his film The Peacemaker, a portrait of the remarkable Padraig O’Malley–an Irish businessman, professor and recovering alcoholic who has become a worldwide figure in the resolution of international conflict.

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Film Funding | Filmmaking | Kickstart New England | Reports | Rhode Island

Kickstart New England: Instrumental Places: The Granada Guitar

1 Apr , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Help us Kickstart a new film by filmmaker Sky Sabin, Instrumental Places: The Granada Guitar

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Film Funding | Kickstart New England | Massachusetts | Reports

Kickstart New England: Guys Next Door; Confused by Love; Lily

12 Mar , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Help kickstart three worthy local films this month -- The Guys Next Door, a documentary by Allie Humenuk and Amy Geller that explores the lives of two families and examines issues of gay rights, marriage, and surrogacy in the United States today; Confused By Love, a film produced, written, and directed by Crosby Tatum and partially inspired by his teenage years, when he and his mother had nowhere to live; and Emerson College student film Lily, an ambitious 1950s period-piece for which the students plan to build an entire set for the film.

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Connecticut | Film Funding | Kickstart New England | Reports

Kickstart New England: Who Is Lydia Loveless?

9 Feb , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Who is Lydia Loveless? That’s the question director Gorman Bechard hopes to answer in his upcoming documentary. Twenty-three year old singer-songwriter Lydia Loveless, raised in Ohio, received much acclaim for her 2014 album Somewhere Else. Who Is Lydia Loveless? will follow her as she tours and performs, records in the studio with her band, and shares details of her life and work in interviews.

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Film Funding | Kickstart New England | Reports

Kickstart New England: Finding the Gold Within and Uprising

14 Jan , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

This month's Kickstart New England series features Karina Epperlein's film that tells the story of six young black men from Akron, Ohio and their experiences attending college and Emerson College student Jennifer Zemke's thesis film Uprising, which will be made in conjunction with her written thesis on racial representation in science fiction and fantasy. To have your film featured in this series, email news@newenglandfilm.com.

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