The impact of the social documentary “Hollow” is undeniable. But when Elaine McMillion Sheldon set out to capture the essence of a small town community in America through film, she had no idea how the final product would look. She only knew that she wanted to highlight the lives of people who came from areas of the country where the population had been decreasing over the last few decades. McDowell County, West Virginia, very near to where Sheldon grew up, is one of those places. (more…)
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Crowd-Funding Alternatives
Here we’ve listed those and a few crowd-funding alternatives that you can use to fund your photo, video and documentary projects.
Kickstarter: What I could have done better
Suchitra Vijayan is a writer, photographer and a political analyst. She is currently working on “The Borderlands”, a project that documents stories along India’s borders with Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, and Burma. (more…)
Frame-by-Frame Funding
In October of 2012, Mo Scarpelli and Alexandria Bombach travelled to Kabul thinking they would make a short film about freedom of press (or lack thereof) in Afghanistan.
They were only there for two weeks, but “The story blew up in our faces,” said Scarpelli. What they saw was an emerging free press in the war-torn country, and a handful of Afghan journalists behind it. (more…)