Crowdfunding
Women Supporting Women: Crowdfunding Picks
“F1”: Instagram The Sisters are doing it for themselves. A successful crowdfunding campaign often means assembling a team of badass women creatives, communicating a clear vision, and engaging...
Rude Awakenings: Crowdfunding Picks
“Sirens” When life hands you lemons, go find a life coach who moonlights as a mermaid. Well, at least that’s the conceit of one of our latest crowdfunding picks. Mermaids aside, all of our...
AmDoc, Pinewood Atlanta Launch Kickstarter Campaigns to Support Rising Filmmakers
American Documentary (AmDoc) and Pinewood Atlanta Studios have both started Kickstarter funds for up and coming filmmakers. Per Variety, AmDoc is teaming up with the Knight Foundation to support...
Adventures in Authenticity: Crowdfunding Picks
“Lorene’s Gotta Boogie” Follow the beaten path or the one less traveled? Life presents us many opportunities to explore this question, but every person’s journey towards a more authentic...
Raising Films Launches Crowdfunding Campaign to Continue Work for Parents & Carers in the Biz
Motherhood shouldn’t prevent women from making films, but it can. Caring for one’s elderly parents or sick family members shouldn’t upend a person’s career in show business, but it can....
“Yours in Sisterhood” Doc Brings ’70s Era Ms. Magazine Letters to Life
A lot has changed since Ms. magazine launched in 1971 — and a lot hasn’t. This ironic truth is something Irene Lusztig explores in her performative documentary, “Yours in Sisterhood.”...
Get Busy Living: Crowdfunding Picks
“Side Work” We often have to make a choice between pushing back against the setbacks in our lives, or letting the current pull us under. To sink or swim, to fight or take flight — or to put...
Latina Directors Amplifying Their Voices: Crowdfunding Picks
Latinas are severely under-represented in film — both onscreen and behind the scenes. Among the directors of the top films from 2007 to 2016, only one was Latina. In addition, Latinas...
A New Chapter: Crowdfunding Picks
“Freelancers Anonymous” As you reach the end of a chapter in your life, the idea of confronting what’s next can be daunting, but the opportunity to start a new chapter can often be refreshing...
Women Who Make Us Laugh: Crowdfunding Picks
Get ready to laugh and reflect: for this round of crowdfunding picks, we’re focusing on comedies about and made by women. First up is Sarah Delpizzo and Melissa Graver’s “The Pet Peeve...
Guest Post: How a Joan Didion Doc Became a Kickstarter Success and Landed at Netflix
Guest Post by Elise McCave This past week “Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold” arrived on Netflix. It’s been quite a road to launching the doc on the streaming service, including a New...
Struggles That Define Us: Crowdfunding Picks
We all face personal struggles that are drastically altered and influenced by the world we live in. For this round of crowdfunding picks, we’re looking at shorts centered on the struggle to...
Strength in Numbers: Crowdfunding Picks
It’s often said that two is better than one. Many of us have found strength in numbers by turning to our friends and families for support, encouragement, and guidance. This month’s crowdfunding...
Mothers of the 21st Century: Crowdfunding Picks
“Brighton” Mothers play a critical role in our ability to grow, love, learn, and experience the world — but they are still women of the 21st century. They love, falter, make mistakes, and...
We Are Family: Crowdfunding Picks
Production on “Bench” Our families are often the first people we turn to when we seek comfort, care, reassurance, or even strength. The women featured in this set of crowdfunding picks find...
Letting Go of the Past: Crowdfunding Picks
The past is the story of who we are: it defines us and plays a part in how we act. But sometimes the past can hold us back and take away our ability to make progress. For this round of crowdfunding...
Women at a Crossroads: Crowdfunding Picks
Still from “Human Telegraphs” For this round of crowdfunding picks, we’re featuring projects that explore the kinds of decisions that women make they find themselves at a crossroads in their...
BRITDOC CEO Jess Search Joins Kickstarter Board
With more than a decade of funding documentaries under her belt, BRITDOC CEO Jess Search is poised to join Kickstarter, the crowdfunding organization that helps all kinds of projects find financing....
Unheard & Unseen: Crowdfunding Picks
Thousands of women’s stories are ignored or simply go untold — a huge problem that is addressed in this round of crowdfunding picks. These stories are diverse, yet they’re united by their...
Fiction Is a Fine Line: Crowdfunding Picks
“Split” We’ve all heard that art is an imitation of life. Painters, writers, and filmmakers alike transpose what they see and feel onto their medium of choice. Personal experiences and...
Fighting to Be Heard: Crowdfunding Picks
Even as women fight for their own spaces in Hollywood, it’s important to remember the kinds of stories about women that are typically told. Many of Hollywood’s female-centered stories focus on...
The Personal Is Communal: Crowdfunding Picks
We all have that friend who constantly “knows how you feel.” You know what we’re talking about. Well, trust us, this group of crowdfunding picks really know how you feel. Each respective...
Women on the Verge: Crowdfunding Picks
“Beast” Everyone has moments of desperation, moments when you are sure nothing in life will ever be quite right again. The women at the center of this months crowdfunding picks bring these...
Finding the Balance: Crowdfunding Picks
If you’re an avid reader of Women and Hollywood (and if you’re not, welcome!) the disparities between men and women in the film industry are of no surprise. These seemingly never-ending...
Shared Experience: Crowdfunding Picks
“The Last Partera” International Women’s Day gave women around the country an opportunity to unite for a common purpose and demonstrate their value. Similarly, this round of crowdfunding picks...
In Solidarity: Crowdfunding Picks
“Women’s March” On January 21, millions of women across the globe marched in response to the overwhelming oppression of the Trump administration. Its message is crucial: “Women’s Rights are...
Here’s What We Do in the Aftermath: Crowdfunding Picks
“The Last Clinics” As we find ourselves (only) 30 days into America’s new administration, the majority of female-led crowdfunding projects across the web rightfully continue February’s...
Moving Forward: Crowdfunding Picks
“La Barracuda” This month’s crowdfunding projects are about women moving forward in their lives, usually in the wake of tragedy. Each of these projects, from a documentary examining immigration...
Seed&Spark Launches #100DaysOfDiversity Initiative
Today, Inauguration Day, is sad for a lot of us. It’s surreal, like an unfunny comedy sketch gone awry. The good news: It’s also the first day of Seed&Spark’s new #100DaysOfDiversity...
Breaking the Mold: December 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
“Lipstick the Series” This month’s crowdfunding picks are all about breaking the mold. From a documentary set during the modern women’s movement to the second season of a popular web series...
Putting it All Out in the Open: Crowdfunding Picks
“Netizens” A lot of social and cultural issues stem from those in power refusing to acknowledge the elephant in the room. In our crowdfunding picks, two documentaries delve into topics that are...
Struggles and Successes: November 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
“Guard” We all deal with struggles in our daily lives, and this month’s choices for crowdfunding picks showcase the day-to-day struggles women face. From a very real fight against privilege, to...
A Legacy of Their Own: Crowdfunding Picks
“Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers” It’s probably fair to say that most artists want their work to remain relevant after they’re gone; for people to remember them because their art is...
Know No Boundaries: Crowdfunding Picks
“Mourning Dove” storyboard The creativity and audacity of women directors and writers know no bounds in this round of crowdfunding picks. These stories, ranging from sharp-witted comedies to...
New Docs Turn the Camera on Women Directors
Cady McClain, writer-director of “Seeing is Believing” Directors Cady McClain and Amy Adrion are turning the cameras towards themselves — in a sense. These two filmmakers are developing...
The Personal Is Political: Crowdfunding Picks
“Valentina” storyboard As November 8 draws ever closer, it seems like the only thing people are talking or writing about is politics. Unsurprisingly, intersectional feminist...
Strong Women, Both Real and Fictional: September 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
“Nasbandi” As the theme song to Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” says, “females are strong as hell.” This month’s crowdfunding picks highlight the strength and courage women...
Helping Hands: August 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
“Love is Uganda” We all need a helping hand sometimes, and that is the running theme in the second round of crowdfunding picks for August. From women helping each other to the real life...
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Crowdfunding Picks
Untitled “Curious George” documentary This round of August’s crowdfunding picks challenge us to acknowledge and empathize with some who are invisible in most narratives: authors of famous...
Women Vs. the World: Crowdfunding Picks
In this month’s crowdfunding picks, it’s all about the challenges women face, be they the daily challenges of finding a job, or the struggle of coming to terms with one’s own past. These...
Negotiating the Real and the Surreal: Crowdfunding Picks
“The Language of Laughter” This summer, female-directed and written crowdfunding projects are making sense of the real world by telling stories infused with the surreal. By blending common...
Motherhood and Martyrdom: June 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
Women content creators touch on some heavy topics in this month’s crowdfunding picks. From a web series about the underbelly of motherhood, to the reconsideration of the martyrdom of a patron...
When the Moment Strikes: Crowdfunding Picks
This month’s crowdfunding picks test time in various ways. In Georgia Oakley’s “Little Bird” we travel back to 1941 London, where a young woman (Emily Taafe) is interviewing for the...
Listen: Podcast With Emily Best, CEO and Founder of Seed&Spark
Women and Hollywood spoke with Emily Best, the CEO and Founder of Seed&Spark, about the exciting new steps for the platform. It is going to bring audiences to the content creators....
Activism and the Abstract: Crowdfunding Picks
“Cave Small Cave Big” This month’s crowdfunding picks delve into the wondrous world of the childlike imagination, tackle intense topics like living with breast cancer, and consider women’s...
Fantasy or Reality? May 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
“Afterbirth” This month’s crowdfunding picks are centered around the ways love, fear, and anxiety can stop us from distinguishing between fiction and reality. The short film “Dreamer”...
Friends, Family, and Strange Creatures: May 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
“No Man’s Land” This month’s crowdfunding picks feature nuanced works by women directors looking to tell stories that don’t get told often enough. These picks examine family relationships,...
The Secret Lives of Women: March 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
This month’s crowdfunding picks include a number of intriguing documentaries, plus two psychological thrillers. But what all these films have in common is their mission to bring to light the lives...
Fantasy, Horror and Super-Heroines: March 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
This week’s women-centric crowdfunding picks deliver impressive female characters and subjects who take on the world with fighting spirit. Whether they are stoically facing up to their own...
Desolate Towns and Sacred Spaces: February 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
This week’s crowdfunding picks are tied together by a strong sense of place, conjuring images of faraway landscapes or fleshing out the complexities of America’s marginalized communities....
Punk-Rock Horror and Women Who Just Rock: February 2016’s Crowdfunding Picks
This roundup of women-centric crowdfunding projects has a little something for every kind of movie fan. The horrors of motherhood, grief and repeating the mistakes of the past are explored in...