A Step-by-Step Guide for Crowdfunding💰 for Your Short Film

That hopefully helps the process feel much less intimidating.

Crowdfunding is one of the most awkward, sometimes icky feeling and daunting parts of trying to make your short film dreams a reality but the fact of the matter is we all need more money.

Beyond the awkwardness... it can also feel intimidating which is why I’ve made a step-by-step crowdfunding walkthrough to help get your campaign prepped to hopefully reach your donation goals. I’ve gathered this advice and guidance from not only my favorite resources and friends but my past experiences of MAKING GOALS and almost more importantly not making our goal number.

When we didn’t make our goals - it was almost always that we didn’t have complete ‘buy in’ from the team.

• Directors hoped the producers would do all the heavy-lifting

• Producers, actors, didn’t push or ask their network nearly enough

• The crew didn’t feel bought in enough to the project to want to share

• We didn’t follow up.

• We didn’t spread the word on social enough.

It’s far from a perfect science but I hope it helps y’all understand the dedication, organization and boldness needed. This crowdfunding process is just one piece of the overall marketing, social planning and producing your first short step-by-step guides.