Nazi romp space is the film as a profile to use crowdsourcing to develop and finance. Is this because of mixed reviews?

If you've ever imagined yourself as the star of a Hollywood scriptwriter, the producer or the film section of the site IndieGoGo crowdfunding might be the place for you. Browse through the budding film projects boasting of money in recent months, and he could have come to opportunities to pick up a writer's credit of $ 50 on the remains of British post-apocalyptic drama of a disaster, or a credit as executive producer on the God of kiwi, the documentary is incredible $ 500. The director of history Book Day comic super recently promised to shave his head if the campaign of the film achieved its goal of $ 3500, with donors allowed to scribble their names on the bald bald new.

Amid the stupidity, the site meets a real need. Movies cost a lot of money to be made, and not everyone who wants to make movies a lot of money. Some of these features can be an opportunity for the next Kevin Smith or David Lynch to take their first steps on the ladder of filmmaking. Yet I can not imagine the offer above supersede the rights of creators of Eraserhead or clerks for less than the cost of dinner for two in a half decent curry house for at least one project IndieGoGo recently promised.

A change in terminology, even perhaps in order: crowdfunding, through which the filmmakers to get help with the financial costs of a particular project, is increasingly blurred with crowdsourcing, through which producers aspiring to attract fans on the Internet to be part of the creative process of building a new film. Separate, each has its place. When you get to be subordinate to the other, creating a "crowdeverything" hybrid, offers film projects involved an unpleasant air of desperation trade.

"There is a very dark side emerging," says the producer of independent film and British screenwriter Ant Neely. "I see crowdfunding campaigns that offer" a line in the film represents credit "for a donation large enough. The idea of ??throwing someone because they can pay, contrary to his ability, is really very sad. "

Neely and his wife Sloane U'Ren (director) took a different approach to getting their periods of science fiction movie-cum-theater dimensions: a line, a loop, a tangle of son, the big screen - you simply sold the house. While accepting that getting a film financed is an extremely difficult process, do not believe Neely crowdeverything approach is the way forward.

"It's an interesting concept and certainly a filmmaker connects directly to the audience," he says. "But you are not comfortable with films made by the committee . I'm not saying that selling your home is a sensible strategy, if "

If a film has a chance to escape the ghetto crowdsourcing / financing, Iron Sky, a comedy romp Nazis space, the Finnish director Timo Vuorensola and the support team of thousands of online persons which is published Wednesday in cinemas in the UK (over that later). ? 7.5 million the movie screens in over 70 countries this year and has a good chance of making profits for their legions of financial sponsors. Despite its origins, says his film Vuorensola approach avoided the credit money.

"In our film, the idea was to use the community to develop ideas and issues that are problematic, rather than have them work on the script. Necessary words of the anthem Nazi moon, and I t speak German, so it was something that puts us in the community. They knew what I wanted, and they were able to let me know if someone had written something that has was to come. "