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Can you build a filmmaking career through crowdfunding alone?
Los Angeles is, without a doubt, the centralized hub of filmmaking. It’s the Vatican City, the Mecca, the Washington D.C. of the film world — whatever you might compare it to, it’s the capital.
Without a doubt, you will be urged to move to LA if you want to do filmmaking. But can you work independently of it? Can this domain, despite currently being centralized around a geographic monopoly in LA, be shaken up to spread across the country?
Of course, things can be filmed everywhere across the country. (Ozark is, fittingly, filmed in my home state of Missouri.) But filmmaking isn’t exactly talked about in the same way as others when we talk about independent creators based across the U.S.
There are of course exceptions to the centrality of LA. There is also Vancouver and Atlanta.
Still… what about filmmaking where you are? We live in the age of Patreon and Kickstarter after all.
I am a big believer that we can build opportunities.
I don’t think I’m alone in thinking about the possibilities of decentralized filmmaking.
Take for instance r/FolkFilmmaking, a hub of independent filmmaking. Look at Seed and Spark, a platform for crowdfunding film.
