Crowdfunding Your Student Films: A Better Approach

Russell Goldman

Editorial Intern
Russell Goldman is an Editorial Intern at Indiewire. He writes articles that his bosses don't have to write. He is a student at Wesleyan University where enjoys directing as much film and theater as he can. He has been writing about film since he could spell - most recently for the Wesleyan Argus - and has previously held internships at GKIDS and Nine Lives Pictures.
Latest by Russell Goldman
Calliope
Crowdfunding shouldn't just be student filmmakers painfully asking friends and family for money.
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It's a joy to see the leaders of the independent world foster new, exciting talent.
Stranger Things
Now that you've had a chance to binge the whole show, we've got some questions about where the Duffer Brothers will take us next season.
In honor of Museum of Modern Art's own retrospective on the work and career of filmmaker Ira Sachs, we've created one of our own.
Danielle Brooks, Samira Wiley, Uzo Aduba and Selenis Leyva in "Orange is the New Black."
According to studies, you are wasting two times as much of your life on the Netflix browsing menu.
Crowdfunding Your Student Films: A Better Approach
The actors and actresses of all ages who did some of the best work of their career without anyone seeing their faces.
"The Acquaintance of a Lonely John"
Watch a Safdie come into his own with an early short.
Marc Maron in "Maron" Season 4
"This is it. It's done. There's ways to do more, but this is the vision."
No Tomorrow
The festival that founded now-hit TV shows on HBO and Netflix looks ahead to a bright future.
Film Quarterly Summer 2016 Edition
The Summer 2016 issue features articles on "Transparent" and "Ex Machina" and, for the first time ever, it's totally free.
Crowdfunding Your Student Films: A Better Approach
Trailers for blockbusters, trailers for modern American epics, trailers that even showed the whole film in two minutes.
Michel Gondry
The prolific director discusses his latest film "Microbe and Gasoline," and how young filmmakers can perfect the skill of dream-telling.
Top of The Line Weekly
A weekly digest that captures the best of our Top of the Line coverage.

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