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Crowdfund This: Artist Dave Cooper Embraces Live-Action Weirdness in the New Short SQUASH

Dave Cooper is an Ottawa-based artist with a fascinating background. After working in underground comics for companies such as Fantagraphics, Cooper shifted his attention to painting. He later embraced animation with work for such TV shows as Pig Boat Banana Cricket...

Crowdfund This: THE PRIMEVALS, Full Moon's Lost Stop-Motion Epic

In the mid 1990s, Full Moon founder Charles Band and legendary stop-motion animation effects artist David Allen (Equinox, Willow) set out to make The Primevals, the most ambitious Full Moon feature ever and a passion project of Allen's that he...

Crowdfund This: PROFESSOR DARIO BAVA: PARANORMAL PLAYBOY Graphic Novel

Who exactly is the world-renowned Dario Bava: Paranormal Playboy, you ask? Only the most notorious Vatican-exorcist-turned-monster-hunter ever, who, along with Future Girl time traveling super-hippie from a heavy tomorrow, and Major Bitch, far out freedom fighting yeti-slayer, keep us all...

Crowdfund This: 80's Revenger NIGHT RUN

Erik Solis, designer, director, and founder of The Playback Collective, is all about the 1980's, and Night Run will be his ultimate ode to the era her loves. A revenge tale about a murdered boyfriend who rises from the grave...

Crowdfund This: In SKYWATCH, Corporations Abuse Their Power

Updated: Mea culpa. Looks like I misread the Skywatch teaser entirely, according to the filmmakers, and so I apologize to them and to all readers for my misleading original headline and opening paragraphs. To avoid confusion, I have deleted my...

Crowdfund This! THE RUMOUR MILL, Unique Animation From An Award-Winning Team

Award winning filmmakers Bexie Bush and Chris Hees have teamed up for an innovative new project and they’re looking for a little help to finish it off. Animation director Bush’s previous film, Mend and Make Do, used magical stop-motion animation...

Crowdfund This: Help ATOMIC ED Defeat Evil!

From what little I can glean from the announcement video on the Atomic Ed crowdfunding page, director Nicolas Hugon sees his main character as a modern MacGyver, and an outsider who is forced to step up when his small town is ravaged...

Crowdfund This: FLOW, An Action-Comedy Short That Looks Like Dynamite

Our editorial and writing team at ScreenAnarchy includes several filmmakers, such as the multi-talented Shelagh M. Rowan-Legg. She serves here as critic and Associate Editor, but right now her focus is on her second short film. Her first short, Measure,...

Crowdfund This: Keep Brooklyn's Spectacle Theater In The Picture

Please note, the author of this article is Christopher Bell, former contributor to The Playlist and director of feature film The Winds That Scatter -- BUWalking around Brooklyn's biggest punchline of a neighborhood ain't what it used to be. In...

Crowdfund This: JIÀOLIÀN [COACH], An Inside Look At Basketball In China

It's rare on 'Crowdfund This' to feature a campaign for a documentary, which makes today an intriguing one on the outset. But wait until you take a closer look at just what Esteban Argüello's Jiàoliàn [Coach] has in store. Jiàoliàn...

Crowdfund This: ATROCIOUS, Lex Ortega's First Feature Film

Young Mexican horror filmmaker Lex Ortega has made a name for himself within the festival circuit, with several gory short films such as T is for Tamales and Mother's Blessing. He's also a recognized sound designer, and has worked for...

Crowdfund This: THREE FINGERS, A Female Portrait Of War... After War

There are a lot of nifty looking crowdfunding projects that pass through the halls here at ScreenAnarchy. Plenty of those are worth your time, so why should Paul D. Hart's short film Three Fingers be of particular interest to you?First...

Crowdfund This: Female-Helmed Grindhouser SHEILA SCORNED

We haven't spent a lot of time talking about crowdfunding site Seed & Spark but their clever film-centric model and slick site is worth a browse for anyone looking to support some very worthy projects. One of those very...

Crowdfund This Round-Up: Bathroom Horror, Hopi, Madsen, & Film Bloggers

So where are you going to spend your hard-earned ducats this week? We've got some ideas. Join us on this tour of some of the crowdfunding film projects that have caught our eyes over the last few days. Click the...

Crowdfund This: Badass Luchador EL GIGANTE Needs Your Help

México Bárbaro's Gigi Saul Guerrero has just launched, together with the company LuchaGore Productions, a crowdfunding campaign for her new short film, which promises luchador action, blood, guts and, like any great horror film, social commentary. El Gigante is "The...

Crowdfund This: Brew Up Some Love For DRIP

The filmmakers behind the barista competition documentary Drip are raising funds on Kickstarter and they've put together a pretty slick trailer to let you smell what they are brewing. They've also got some interesting incentives to perk you up...

Crowdfund This! Get THE HEART MACHINE to SXSW

One of the must-sees on our SXSW 2014 forecast is Zachary Wigon's The Heart Machine. Starring John Gallagher Jr. and Kate Lyn Sheil, this romantic mystery/thriller looks like a tense exploration of modern love. But with the Austin premiere looming,...