Financing a CNB´s documentary through crowdfunding

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Rethinking cultural diversity in the UK film sector:practices in community filmmaking

© The Author(s) 2017. Academic, policy and industry debates have tended to focus on the mainstream film sector when discussing cultural diversity. One of the persistent challenges for the sector has been how to diversify cultural representation and participation. This article suggests that participatory modes of community filmmaking make an important contribution to cultural diversity. Drawing on an evidence base derived from qualitative research conducted in three English regions, the article shifts the spotlight away from the mainstream and onto the margins of the film sector in order to explore more ‘bottom-up’ approaches to cultural diversity. It examines how community filmmakers interpret and engage with questions of cultural diversity and how this connects to the participatory and business practices that they adopt. The findings highlight the significance of processes of practice in how mediated cultural diversity manifests itself and the value of community filmmaking in contributing to wider cultural diversity debates and practices.The authors thank the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK) for funding the ‘Community Filmmaking and Cultural Diversity: Practice, Innovation and Policy project’ (2013–2014)

Crowd intelligence in independent film productions

This paper is devoted to the challenges of independent film production in raising funding. It gives a brief overview of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing methods as one possibility to improvement funding, as well as the process in acquiring funding. We attempt to suggest to improve the traditional film production tecniques and process with crowd intelligence methods. We further describe the appropriate ways of its implementation. The paper reveals the main similarities and differences of the methods as well as it pinpoints to the advantages and disadvantages of their implementation in different cases. Copyright © 2013 ACM