CLICKING FOR DOLLARS
At Cinematech, Scott Kirsner amends his Friday piece in Variety “Filmmakers hope for online funds” with a series of links to the films and filmmaker he covers in print. In his piece, Krisner surveys the full range of new cinema entrepreneurs, from Drink Me, which all you need is $10 and a dream (and a valid credit card to make your purchase online) to political muckraker Robert Greenwald’s money raising techniques for his recent Iraq for Sale. For those of us on a budget, The 1 Second Film project lets you be a producer for only a buck. Although in Kirsner’s Variety piece, there are a few naysayers to all these new-fangled financing strategies:
Daniel Riviera, a San Francisco entertainment attorney active in indie film production, says he can’t imagine experienced film investors entering their credit card numbers on Web sites to buy into a project, rather than signing the standard private placement memorandum.
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