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Independent film funding relies on obfuscating investor losses
“The entire process of funding independent films is based on obfuscating the fact that independent films, you're going to lose your money if you invest in them.”
Digital media should act as free advertising to build a fanbase
“Each of these films, each of these episodes is its own advertisement for the next product, and we're no longer the business of selling units. We're in the business of building A sustaining fan base. Essentially using the internet for what it does best, making …”
Strong day-one Kickstarter momentum drives organic backer conversion
“A really big day on Kickstarter then starts to attract more people, and they see it on Kickstarter, people who haven't heard of us begin to join on, and on Kickstarter and crowdfunding, success begets success.”
Zombie Orpheus turned down a $500,000 venture capital investment
“I've turned down a lot of money in venture capital. Most recently half a million.”
Zombie Orpheus will release the Strowlers IP to allow commercial derivatives
“Our next big radical step For a new property that we're launching, Strowlers, we're actually going to release our world bible and our intellectual property to allow commercial derivatives under, again, a Creative Commons style license.”
JourneyQuest recouped its entire season one budget via PayPal within one year
“So based purely on fan contributions via a PayPal button on our site, we made back our entire production budget in a year. We paid our investors back.”
Zombie Orpheus raised $112,000 on Kickstarter for JourneyQuest season two
“We then turned around on Kickstarter and funded season two raised a 112,000 dollars.”
Zombie Orpheus averages a strong $97 per backer on Kickstarter
“On the Kickstarter we tend to average 97 dollars per backer.”
Zombie Orpheus raised over $600,000 across three Kickstarter campaigns in 2016
“We've done three Kickstarters this year. We've raised over 600 grand on there.”