The film had a world premiere at Film Maudit 2.0 in January 2023. Watch the video to see Stephen Stull explain! Stephen is the director of one of our favorite festivals, Orlando, Florida’s Sick ‘n’ Wrong Film Festival. He has … Read More
Sophia and Michael are excited to be headed to Colorado this summer to shoot Demon for Hire, a new short film from Travis Heermann! Sophia is the cinematographer and Michael is handling sound. The project is now in crowdfunding phase at … Read More
Check out the whole channel Crowdfunding book: https://blog.mikeandsophia.com/2020/06/pre-order-michaels-book-crowdfunding-basics-in-30-minutes-rel-march-13th-2017/ Learn to Market Indie Films Better through Crowdfunding | with Michael J. Epstein Today I’m talking crowdfunding with filmmaker/author/musician/man-about-town Michael J. Epstein. He gives some great crowdfunding tips and we talk … Read More
Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes Crowdfunding sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and GoFundMe can not only help you raise money to fund your idea or cause, they can also help you establish a community of enthusiastic supporters. This crowdfunding book … Read More
Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes has been named a finalist in the Foreword INDIES competition, in the Careers category, chosen from over 2000 entries. The competition is run by Foreword Reviews, a major publisher of reviews of independent books.INDIES finalists are moved on to final … Read More
Very happy to announce that my book, Crowdfunding Basics in 30 Minutes is a finalist in the Independent Publishers of New England’s 4th Annual Book Awards!!! About the book – Crowdcrux Podcast Interview – Take the Lead Radio with Dr. Diane … Read More
“Crowdfunding has rapidly become a viable way to start a small business. This book walks you through the pros and cons of crowd funding and how to do it successfully.” Check out the whole list of books below or … Read More
I have the wonderful pleasure of speaking with Dr. Diane Hamilton for Take the Lead radio about crowdfunding and various creative and academic pursuits! (Facebook / Twitter) My segment is about 30 minutes into the show. Listen to / download … Read More
I had a great chat with Salvador Briggman over at the Crowdcrux Podcast. We talked about strategies for successful crowdfunding, how to leverage crowdfunding efforts into a continuing career, and my new book, Crowdfunding Basics In 30 Minutes! Give it a … Read More
A stand up comic has to decide if he can keep performing material based on his own life issues. Set in the comedy world, It’s Not Funny Anymore is about mental illness in creative people who have to decide if … Read More
So far, Sophia and I have run two modest Kickstarter campaigns – both successful – for our films TEN (stats on TEN) and MAGNETIC (I never wrote up my analysis, but Kicktraq summary of stats). In preparing for these campaigns, we spent a very … Read More
One of our TEN Kickstarter rewards was for Michael and Sophia to write a short song about you. Fred Boak was the only one to take us up on this reward, but after hearing this ode to Fred the Valet, … Read More
We cannot thank you all enough for believing in us and this project! We are so thrilled to have reached our initial funding goal at 2 weeks in our 4 week campaign! We’re so grateful that you all have trusted us … Read More
Rachel Leah Blumenthal self portrait Very excited to announce that Rachel Leah Blumenthal has signed on as our Production Assistant aka WRANGLER OF SHEEP for our first set of principal shooting days of MAGNETIC! . I’m pretty sure she’s in … Read More
slate from TEN Very excited to announce that Kelly Davidson has signed on as Director of Photography for our new feature film, MAGNETIC! Kelly was also our Director of Photography for our first film, TEN; and has shot two (soon to … Read More
We’ve had an amazing first day kickstarting our new feature film, MAGNETIC – thank you so much to everyone for your support of this project so far! We are beyond humbled and cannot wait to thank you all personally. As … Read More
We are extremely excited to announce that we’re in preproduction for our 2nd feature film, MAGNETIC. On December 31st, at 11:58:07 PM Coordinated Universal Time, Earth, the third planet from the star sol will have its atmosphere ripped to shreds … Read More
Check out my little piece in Performer on why I think Kickstarter is in danger because of confusing policies and ideas about project-based crowdfunding. This is a short piece and presents a brief set of ideas meant to open up … Read More
UPDATE: 6/21 – Kickstarter has done the right thing in my opinion. I am quite happy with the outcome. http://www.kickstarter.com/blog/we-were-wrong The author Ken Hoinsky has also opened up dialogue to help fix some of the problems with the text. Even if … Read More
Friends of TEN is our blog series briefly highlighting fundraisers and projects that are associated with independent film, particularly genre film. TEN the movie wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the Brattle Theatre! The feature film was inspired by a … Read More
Poster by Walter Sickert We had no plans to do additional fundraising after the end of the Kickstarter campaign for TEN. Surprisingly, however, we’ve had a lot of people say that they all together missed us talking about the Kickstarter … Read More
SUCCESS!!! TEN is funded!!! Our Kickstarter campaign is over. Thank you all so much for being part of it. We’re totally blown away by how many people (258 in fact!!!) supported our endeavor to make our first feature film. It has … Read More
The Kickstarter page: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists THE HOME STRETCH We’re down to the last 24 hours, but the really good news is we’ve reached the goal!!! Anything can still happen (pledges can be changed, etc. – I will say, please do warn us … Read More
photo courtesy of RachelLeah Blumenthal We’re very, very excited to announce that Porcelain Dalya has joined the cast of TEN in the role of the “co-ed!” We’ve worked with Dalya extensively in our videos for Darling Pet Munkee – she’s … Read More
We’re now officially past the halfway point on the Kickstarter campaign for TEN. As I try and process my thoughts on this adventure, I figured it might be nice to share them in case they are useful to others considering … Read More
Thanks so much to the amazing folks who have contributed to our Kickstarter campaign! We’re always about 48 hours behind on sending out thank you videos, but we promise, they are on the way and apologize if you were looking … Read More
Our campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists A huge thanks to our 122 backers and especially Phil Opitz, who stepped in when he could take us being $26 under 50% no more, for pushing us over the halfway mark! We’ve got a long way … Read More
Our campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists In continuing amazing casting news, we are thrilled to announce that Karin Webb has been added to the cast of TEN! What a movie this shall be if you all help make it happen! Karin starred in the … Read More
We’ve been losing our minds a little pushing our Kickstarter campaign for the film TEN: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists It’s a nerve-wracking process to say the least! So, we’re going to ease up for a few days and catch our breath (and celebrate Sophia’s birthday). In … Read More
Our campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists We’re quite excited to announce the addition of Rachel Leah Blumenthal to our crew and cast. Rachel will be involved with production and, in keeping with my trend of killing her off in everything I make (see … Read More
Our campaign: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists We just wanted to pass along a big thank you to the contributors to our campaign! We’re extremely excited to have you all be a part of this project and we look forward to sharing more news about … Read More
Our campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twists We are really pleased to announce that the amazing Catherine Capozzi will be working as a crew member on the TEN film shoot, AND, more importantly, will be working on scoring the film. Catherine was responsible for … Read More
Our campaign http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/michaeljepstein/ten-b-movie-psychological-thriller-full-of-twistsTHANK YOU! We are blown away by all of the generous contributions that helped bring us over the 20% mark in less than 48 hours! We’ll be sending individual thank yous over the next few days, but, in the … Read More
Our Kickstarter for the film TEN has begun! We really want you all to be part of it!!! How you can help: 1) Every contribution counts. If you’re thinking of giving, but aren’t sure if you can afford it (or how … Read More
Our friend, Mark Phinney (you can see him playing the “door man” in our X-Ray Specs video!) is making a movie in Boston called Fat. Fat is a funny, and dramatic look at food addiction. Facebook page. synopsis: “Ken is a … Read More
I am delighted to say that this article has been picked up by Music Think Tank: http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/microfunding-is-the-future-of-labels-but-kickstarter-is-the.htmlKickstarter/MicrofundingBy now we’ve all at least heard about Kickstarter. Many of us have helped to fund projects. I’ve supported 5 or 6 myself. The best … Read More