Kickstarter campaigns and crowdfunding have made a lot of headlines this year. Successful (and often record breaking) campaigns for projects like The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series and the Veronica Mars, Zach Braff and Spike Lee movies brought this concept more into mainstream news

“We’re sorry but this content is not available in your location.” We’ve all experienced this roadblock. It’s frustrating and annoying and, I would suggest, fatal for niche television and film projects. In the world of text content, I can usually find anything I want, at any time of da

The current business model for film and television is strongly rooted in copyright law, people paying for copies or access to copies of original work. But it’s breaking down. The strain between what technology can offer (easy access to everything, including free digital copies) and th

The idea of “crowdsourcing” has been around for about five years, since Jeff Howe coined the term in a Wired Magazine article. It basically means outsourcing to the crowd. Filmmakers like those behind the Finnish sci-fi comedy Iron Sky have found it possible to crowdsource such servic