Last Friday, Boston-based nonprofit organization Filmmakers Collaborative hosted "Making Media Now: Thriving In A Changing Landscape," a day-long series of panels and discussions at the Massachusetts School of Art and Design. The conference was an intimate affair, but attendees tackled big questions such as how to embrace disruption caused by new media and economic challenges and find new paths forward. Here are the 7 top takeaways from the event: Every project should have a Kickstarter page. Project websites are so 2007. After Kickstarter came onto the scene and spurred a crowdfunding revolution, all media creators need to consider a Kickstarter site as a crucial starting point, both for funding and audience gathering. Bill Lichtenstein, producer/director of "The American Revolution," a documentary about a Boston radio station, advises filmmakers to have some donors in your back pocket to save for the last minute to push a project over its...
- 6/12/2012
- by Anthony Kaufman
- Indiewire
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