UK Filmmaker Uses Twitter and Paypal to Fund Independent Horror Film
Saturday, April 3rd, 2010Antony “AD” Lane has employed a truly 21st century method in fuding his latest project, Invasion of the Not Quite Dead. He is using Twitter and Paypal.
Since May 2009, Lane has been on Twitter everyday promoting and pleading for people to help produce his film.
So far, he has raised over £19,005 (approx $29,000) from 550 “pre-order producers” from 19 countries. His goal is to raise £100,000
Lane has employed a levels approach, where different levels of donations will get you a higher level of producer package.
There are packages as small as £10, a “Download Producer” and up to a £1000.00 “Profit Share Producer”.
According to his website, http://www.theindywoodproject.com, “The project has received an incredible amount of press which has included a BBC FOUR documentary, the front cover of REVENANT MAGAZINE, horror sites FANGORIA & DREAD CENTRAL & in May 2010 the teaser promo will be opening a star studded HIGH PROFILE event at hte LONDON IMAX.”
Top names have signed on to the project including, actors FRANK JAKEMAN (Breathe), LESLIE SIMPSON (Dog Soldiers, The Descent, Doomsday), TERRY STONE (Doghouse, Rise Of The Footsoldier), VICTORIA BROOM (Umbrage, Dead Cert), AJAY NAYYAR (24, NCIS), JAMES FISHER (Umbrage, Zombie Diaries) and the OFFICIAL LARA CROFT model Alison Carrol.
Perks of the different producer levels include signed BLU Rays, posters, t-shirts, spots in the film, producer credit on the film and digital photo zombie makeovers.
Lane can be found on http://Twitter.com/indywoodFILMS.
Currently Lane is running a 25% off producers packages promotion (offer ends April 12) to get the number of producers up. Also by mentioning “Eric Harnden” in the notes of one’s paypal payment, it’s possible can help yours truly rise in producer status through the refer a friend special!
See http://www.theindywoodproject.com/promotion2/ for more details and to see the pre-trailer for the movie.
