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Kickstart New England: Confused… by Love

20 Apr , 2016 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Massachusetts filmmaker Crosby Tatum and the team behind Confused… by Love seek GoFundMe support for their upcoming screening tour.

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Kickstart New England: Whisper Violet

16 Apr , 2016 | Posted by:

Amelia Votta raises funds for Whisper Violet, her senior honors thesis film at University of Rhode Island.

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Crowdfunding Advice from Veteran Filmmakers

2 Mar , 2016 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

NewEnglandFilm.com checks back with filmmakers featured in the Kickstart New England series to find out if their campaigns were successful and what they learned about crowdfunding.

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Kickstart New England: The Last Pig

10 Oct , 2015 | Posted by:

New England filmmakers Allison Argo and Joseph Brunette seek Indiegogo support for their feature documentary The Last Pig, about a pig farmer in upstate New York who can no longer stand to bring the pigs to their deaths, creating instead a vegan farm.

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Kickstart New England: Revenge of the Killer Shrews

18 Sep , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

In this regular series, NewEnglandFilm.com writer Casey Stirling features local films aiming to raise money through crowdfunding. In this installment, Connecticut filmmaker Bart Grieb seeks Indiegogo support for Revenge of the Killer Shrews, a sequel to his 2000 short film Taming of the Killer Shrews. To have your film featured in this series, email news@newenglandfilm.com at least a month in advance of your campaign launch.

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Kickstart New England: Shakespeare for Bullies

13 Aug , 2015 | Written by Casey Stirling | Posted by:

Massachusetts filmmaker Cheryl Eagan-Donovan seeks Kickstarter support for Shakespeare for Bullies, an educational outreach project for her film Nothing is Truer than Truth. The film explores the life of Edward de Vere as well as sexual identity, a topic relevant to Shakespeare and his plays, and to students dealing with bullying as a result of their sexuality.

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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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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 | 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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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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