Find your way through the maze of different crowdfunding platforms, decide when and how to launch, what perks to make available, how to build a team, and what fundraising goal to set.
Funding

Have you ever wished for a direct line to a funder? IDA is launching a new initiative called #FunderFriday that makes your wish come true. Our members

A review of Carole Lee Dean's 'The Art of Funding: Alternative Financing Concepts'
Follow the funding life-cycle for American Winter, including the filmmakers' success with grant funding, crowd funding, and family foundations.

Here is our all-inclusive crowdfunding tool kit to better help you navigate the maze of this rapidly growing fundraising strategy.

In the 1980s, with a global communications revolution raging in the cable television industry, everyone was keeping his or her eye on the year 1984

You have an idea for a great documentary. You've done your preliminary research and are almost ready to get going. But you still need funds to start

Just a few years ago, a Kickstarter campaign was a strange, exotic scheme. However, with traditional funding streams drying up, doc filmmakers began

The struggle behind re-releasing 'Eyes on the Prize.'

It might be tempting to think that if you write a check to a grant writer you can check out of the process and focus on making your film while the