{"id":11767,"date":"2011-04-27T17:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=11767"},"modified":"2011-04-27T17:27:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T16:27:47","slug":"i-am-i-and-kickstarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/04\/27\/i-am-i-and-kickstarter\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am I and Kickstarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2115598587\/i-am-i-feature-film\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11768\" title=\"I Am I Kickstarter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/I-Am-I-Kickstarter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/iamithefilm.com\/\">I Am I<\/a><\/strong> is one of many independent film projects that have used the website <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2115598587\/i-am-i-feature-film\">Kickstarter<\/a> to raise funds.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in April 2009, the New York based site allows people to fund creative projects from a wide range of areas, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/discover\/categories\/film%20&amp;%20video?ref=sidebar\">independent films<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/discover\/categories\/music?ref=sidebar\">music<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/discover\/categories\/technology?ref=sidebar\">technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bypassing traditional models of investment (like <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Major_film_studio\">movie studios<\/a> or super-rich uncles looking for a tax write off) it allows a people to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">announce projects and then set a funding target by a certain deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the movie-related projects that have successfully raised funds using Kickstarter include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2128223578\/save-blue-like-jazz-the-movie-0?ref=live\">Blue Like Jazz<\/a><\/strong>: A film based on the book by Donald Miller, which raised $345,992.<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/imaginationstation\/detroit-needs-a-statue-of-robocop?ref=live\">RoboCop Statue in Detroit<\/a><\/strong>: A project to build a statue of Robocop in his &#8216;home city&#8217;, which raised $67,436 (more on that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/02\/17\/detroit-will-get-a-robocop-statue\/\">here<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/tpbafk\/tpb-afk-the-pirate-bay-away-from-keyboard?ref=live\">TPB AFK: The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard<\/a><\/strong>: A documentary about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pirate_Bay\">the file-sharing site<\/a>,\u00a0which raised  $51,434<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>I Am I<\/strong> had a funding goal of $100,000 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2115598587\/i-am-i-feature-film\">managed to meet it on January 8th<\/a>, raising $111,965.<\/p>\n<p>But how do film projects like this stick out on a site like Kickstarter?<\/p>\n<p>The filmmakers came up with quite an inventive video to pitch their film:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"656px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/2115598587\/i-am-i-feature-film\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"560px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can keep tabs on the production at <a href=\"http:\/\/iamithefilm.com\">their official site<\/a> and via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jocelyntowne\">Jocelyn Towne on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Other film projects currently raising funds via Kickstarter are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/fmjd\/matthew-modines-full-metal-jacket-diary-ipad-app\">Matthew Modine\u2019s \u201cFull Metal Jacket Diary\u201d &#8211; iPad App<\/a> (this looks really good)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/thelastcause\/the-last-cause-feature-film?ref=live\">The Last Cause<\/a> &#8211; sci-fi feature film<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1253709612\/matt-shepard-is-a-friend-of-mine?ref=live\">Matt Shepard is a Friend of Mine<\/a> &#8211; Documentary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/iamithefilm.com\/\">I Am I<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/\">Kickstarter <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I Am I is one of many independent film projects that have used the website Kickstarter to raise funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,23,16],"tags":[2021,2020],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}