Friday, October 29, 2010
Saving Council
Saving Council is noble project to be sure.
Saving Council is a comedy/drama about one small town, but it’s a movie designed to encourage and inspire all small towns - and all big cities and all Americans - across this country...in much the same way that Franklin Roosevelt used the song Happy Days Are Here Again to lead the country out of depression.
More meaningful to me, however, is the fact that I was born and raised in Council, Idaho.
That fact aside, another thing that is interesting to me is the producer’s tactic for raising funding for this film. He’s utilizing Kickstarter, an on line funding platform for creative projects. I first learned of Kickstarter via film maker, J.A. Steel. My relationship with J.A. is no more than her “friending” me on FaceBook and that she lives near by. She put out a casting call for her current project, Blood Fare and I turned on a “real world friend” and he got the part. Yea for him.
J.A. Steel didn’t raise a ton of money through Kickstarter, but she apparently raised enough. The point being that I think this concept is a wonderful idea especially if you can create a kind of viral buzz via social networks, word of mouth, etc. That’s the approach that J.A. Steel took, and that the producers of Saving Council are as well.
