Comments on: Documentary about homeless 15 year old artist wins first Oscar for a crowdfunded film

Documentary about homeless 15 year old artist wins first Oscar for a crowdfunded film

carolinaherrera — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:11:00 -0800

A documentary about homeless teen Inocente Izucar wins the first Oscar ever awarded to a film financed in part through Kickstarter. Link is to her personal site, with a trailer video about her life.

By: 23

23 — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:21:56 -0800

Interesting! I had not heard about this at all. Independent blurb, Wiki (stub). As a chronic writer of grammatically obtuse FPPs, maybe not my place, but perhaps a mod could rewrite some of this? At first I wasn't sure whether it was the first crowdfunded film ever, the girl's first crowdfunded film, or a crowdfunded Oscar.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:35:07 -0800

I don't know, it seems clear enough to me, and your additional links should remove all ambiguity, 23. That said, I'll edit it if carolinaherrera wants but I'm just as happy leaving the post as is.

By: solarion

solarion — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:13:49 -0800

I personally found it ambiguous but the additional links did clear it up. I'd support a rewrite nonetheless, as I initially thought the teen had directed the movie. This is cool.

By: carolinaherrera

carolinaherrera — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:16:57 -0800

Feel free to edit as needed, and sorry for the confusing grammar! Would hate for the thread to get derailed for that reason.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:33:01 -0800

Okay edited, I hope this clears things up. This is the Kickstarter page by the way, it has a bit more info.

By: dobbs

dobbs — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:36:24 -0800

Three films nominated for Oscars this year were funded on Kickstarter.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:38:34 -0800

Most of the movie projects I've seen on Kickstarter are really preorders of mostly finished movies. Kickstarter taking credit for a movie that already went to film festivals seems a bit odd.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 05:53:02 -0800

There's less difference between a never-produced and almost-finished movie than there is between an almost-finished movie and a finished movie. The Kickstarter round is unlikely to have occurred without some initial work already having been done, usually funded out of pocket or through traditional channels. Most Kickstarter donors are not active in the documentary film scene, so they need to see footage before they're willing to put up money. Ultimately, funding is funding, and that Kickstarter can help get movies from almost-done to shipped is, itself, pretty remarkable.

By: smackfu

smackfu — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 06:15:40 -0800

There's less difference between a never-produced and almost-finished movie than there is between an almost-finished movie and a finished movie. Can you explain this further? It seems like a heck of a lot more work to create and edit a movie to the point of submitting to film festivals than "to pay deferred costs and to complete final deliverables" as on this Kickstarter. I can see it more in the pre-digital days, where the final steps were very expensive.