Ginger Wildheart has become a bit of a master when it comes to crowdfunding in the last few years. Releasing a whole host of fantastic albums via Pledge Music and firmly establishing himself as one of the best songwriters in the world at this moment in time. Earlier this year he took that one step further with the launch of G.A.S.S., the Ginger Associated Secret Society. This site essentially took the crowdfunding model to the next level and melded with the old fashioned idea of a fan club. Fans were able to choose one of three tiers of membership that gives them access to a collection of music, diary entries and all sorts of things to keep even the most die hard fan happy. If you hadn’t guessed, I quickly signed up to said site but decided to hang off on writing about it until a few months down the line, in order to give an honest opinion of it.
A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide
A Practical Guide to a Spectacular Suicide is yet another film that managed to gain its funding through the use of the crowd, raising it’s £3000 through the use of Sponsume. Directed by Graham Hughes and co written by him, Keith Grantham and Graeme McGeagh. All 3 of whom only have one previous film to their name, 2010s The Big Slick which was made for only £200 and won a BAFTA New Talent Award for writing. APGSS is a dark comedy and has been shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival, it’s another one that is unlikely to make its way to a wider cinema release, but should at some point be available in one form or another.
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