2016 ShortFest Archive
Crowdfunding for Independence
How do you build your audience, utilize social media and have a successful crowdfunding campaign? The industry's leading experts are here to teach you just that. CEO and Founder of the film-crowdfunding platform, Seed&Spark, walks you through the basics and gives you the tools for a rewarding campaign.
FRIDAY JUNE 24 | 2:00-3:30PM | Renaissance Hotel
Emily Best founded Seed&Spark to make a contribution to the truly independent community in which she would like to make moving pictures. In 2011, she had the great fortune of producing her first feature with a remarkable group of women. The spirit, the community and the challenges of that project, Like the Water, inspired Seed&Spark. Before producing Like the Water, Emily produced theater, worked as a vision and values strategy consultant for Best Partners, ran restaurants, studied jazz singing at the Taller de Musics, tour guided and cooked in Barcelona, and before that, was a student of Cultural Anthropology and American Studies at Haverford College. Emily was named one of the 2013 Indiewire Influencers, 2014 New York Women of Influence, 2015 Upstart 100, 2016 Techstars. Emily is touring film and tech festivals around the world as a part of the #StayIndieTour to educate filmmakers and learn their best practices in connecting with their audiences to build a sustainable career. She has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in crowdfunding for film, and contributed to over 300 campaigns to date.