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Originally Posted by Roderick Usher

I hate kickstarter. I make no bones about it. In a world of digital piracy and shrinking revenue for films I find it intensly offensive that anyone would ask the audience to pay for something BEFORE IT IS CREATED.

Is it not enough that we ask the audience to go to the theater or by a DVD/Bluray? Asking the general public to fund your artistic endeavors instantly turns your dream project into a charity. I understand using crowdsourcing to fund a short film, because how else are you going to make a short film?

But I recieve requestst to help people fund their feature films constantly and I find it absurd. Investing in a film? Sure, that means there is a chance to recoup the money invested. Kickstarter (and indiegogo or any other crowdsourcing site) promises no such return and muddies the producorial rights to such a degree that if you somehow managed to make a good film this way, you could never land distribution because the chain of title is totally cocked-up.

If your feature idea doesn't land financing, maybe that's because the concept is not financially viable.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but crowd sourcing is not the answer. Creativity, both cinematic and financial is required to make a feature film, and paying dues is essential to weed out the fly-by-night wild-hair-up-the-ass filmmakers from those with skills.

And of these skills, being personable and empathetic is the most important one. Cultivate your empathy and people will flock to you because you will not only understand your actors, producers and audience, but you will also invest your characters with innate likability, which is far more important that originality.

THANK YOU! I got completely flamed for finding filmmakers begging and rinsing their fans for money offensive. I'm genuinely glad you see all the implications of it and I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said :)