Crowdfunding
Feminist Comedy, Deaf Ears in War Zones & the Tangerine Juice Fund: This Week’s Crowdfunding Picks
This week’s crowdfunding picks include two projects by women determined to make a difference. “Tangerine Juice Fund” is the financing section of “Tangerine Entertainment,” a female-driven,...
The Love of Fangirls and the Hate of Online Harassers: October 2015’s Crowdfunding Picks
While teenage girls pour their hearts out to their chosen boy band in the documentary “I Used to Be Normal,” another (as-yet-untitled) documentary spotlights the hatred certain men express...
Sisters Doing it for Themselves: October 2015 Crowdfunding Picks
Women are capable of anything, especially when it comes to fighting to tell their stories told. The following eclectic selection of projects is testament to the expansive talent and aptitude that...
Support ’13 Chambers,’ a Horror Anthology by 13 Women Directors
An abandoned, 97-year-old school will be the site of a new horror anthology featuring 13 female filmmakers — provided the producing team can fundraise just $10,000 for the project. There are...
Forgiveness and Ferguson: October 2015’s Crowdfunding Picks
This week’s women-centric crowdfunding picks could hardly be more different in subject and form: a personal documentary about a strained mother-daughter relationship, a comedic short about a baby...
Women Driving Social Change: September 2015’s Crowdfunding Picks
This week’s crowdfunding picks are bound together by the focus that each project gives to human welfare, subversive countercultures and the fight for women’s rights. “The Seeds of Vandana...
Self-Harm, Female DJs and Emily Dickinson: August 2015’s Crowdfunding Picks
There are some important women-centric projects to check out this August, but before these works can come into full fruition, they could do with a little help from some friends — and that’s...
Eve Ensler Producing Web Series Starring and Written by Trans Woman About Dating
The new web series “Her Story” features playwright Eve Ensler (“The Vagina Monologues”) as a producer and trans activist Jen Richards as its star and co-writer. Richards has penned the...
Sex-Trafficking Survivors, Pauline Kael and Boxers in Burqas: July 2015’s Crowdfunding Projects
Women have plenty to fight for, and in our picks for this week’s women-centric crowdfunding projects, we see women in battle — for freedom, against sex trafficking, for their right to know...
Pride, Protest and Questioning Convention: Crowdfunding Campaigns
In a media-centric society where women’svoices are often drowned by a deluge of mainstream, male-dominated narratives,it is all too easy for any alternative story to slip underneath our radar. The...
More of June 2015’s Noteworthy Women-Centric Crowdfunding Projects: Black Beauty, Life After Death
This week’s featured women-centric crowdfunding projects may differ in style, message, and tone, but each one focuses on the self. Whether it’s finding the person you are or leaving behind the...
June 2015’s Noteworthy Women-Centric Crowdfunding Projects: ‘Sweetening the Pill,’ ‘Creased,’ ‘Faith’
A little help can go a long way when it comes to crowdfunding campaigns, and we’re here to spread the word about a few notable film projects trying to get their financial footing. While these...
May 2015’s Noteworthy Women-Centric Crowdfunding Projects
Last month, we at Women and Hollywood started a new feature spotlighting women-centric crowdfunding projects that we feel deserve attention and support. This month’s crowdfunding selections vary...
Gay Divorce and Rock-umentaries: April’s Noteworthy Women-Centric Crowdfunding Projects
We at Women and Hollywood are always in pursuit of women-centric projects to promote and encourage, which is why, starting this month, we are beginning a new feature. Once a month, we will highlight...