18.00 | 18 October 2014 | Prince Charles Cinema London | www.kickstarter.com/london2014
Following its success in New York and Los Angeles earlier this year, the Kickstarter Film Festival is now coming to London on Saturday 18 October 2014.
This is the fourth annual Kickstarter Film Festival, a celebration of features, shorts, documentaries, animations and other video works made by Kickstarter creators over the last 12 months. The programme includes work from around the world, including new episodes of Morph, the beloved clay puppet from the late 70s children’s television show Take Hart. The Film Festival also marks the celebration of two years of Kickstarter in the UK.
In addition to the Film Festival, Kickstarter are hosting a week of artist talks and Kickstarter schools including events that focus on film, design and games.
Since its launch in 2009, Kickstarter has become a serious alternative funding method for the film industry. The site has featured almost 40,000 Film & Video projects to date, which have received a total of over $230 million of pledges. This makes Film & Video the largest Kickstarter category (others include Music, Fashion and Technology) and the second most funded.
The success of the model can be reflected in its infiltration of the conventional Hollywood scene. Last year saw three Kickstarter-funded projects receive Academy Award nominations. Sari Gilman’s Kings Point, a documentary about ageing America, and Inocente, the inspiring story of a 15-year-old homeless girl who refuses to give up her dream of being an artist, were both nominated for the best documentary short category. The Afghan Film Project’s Buzkashi Boys was also nominated for best live-action short. Previous Kickstarter projects that have been nominated for Academy Awards include Incident in New Baghdad, Sun Come Up and The Barber of Birmingham.
This year’s festival will comprise a selection of the year’s best Kickstarter-funded film projects. The programme includes Gillian Robespierre’s Obvious Child and Aardman Animation’s hugely popular All New Adventures of Morph, which brings the clay figure back to audiences in his traditional stop-motion form. Other narrative films include Night of the Living Deb, a zombie movie with a romantic twist, and The Fitzroy, a black comedy set in a post-apocalyptic 1950s Margate. Documentary shorts include Tomorrow We Disappear, about the last day’s of India’s last artists’ colony before it was sold to developers; First to Fall, about two young Libyan rebels who leave their lives in Canada to join the fight to overthrow Gaddafi and Planet Money Makes a T-Shirt, which exposes the hidden world between clothing production in the United States.
Kickstarter is the world’s largest funding community for the creative industry, home to everything from films, games and music to art, design and technology. Kickstarter is full of projects, big and small, that are brought to life through the direct support of the public. Since its launch in 2009, 7 million people have pledged over $1 billion to fund 70,000 creative projects. Thousands of creative projects are raising funds on Kickstarter right now.
For a free ticket, visit the event page and RSVP
https://www.kickstarter.com/events/london2014
