The Crowdfunding Rally is a two-part event that begins and ends online but makes a pit stop with a live pitch event for narrative filmmakers at the 15th Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival and for documentary filmmakers at the 8th Freep Film Festival. If your project is chosen to participate then you’ll be asked to set up a campaign on Seed&Spark. Seed&Spark’s online crowdfunding platform is used to collect all the contributions that come your way from our audience, as well as from your network of friends and family in your own social media campaign.
THERE ARE TWO WAYS TO QUALIFY. You only need to meet the criteria of one of the two qualifiers.
Qualifier #1
The majority of the project will be produced in the States of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin or the Province of Ontario. We're all for supporting Midwest Filmmaking!
Qualifier #2
Your film is in the 2021 Hell’s Half Mile or Freep Fest film program, or a past program, and you have another project in the works. We liked your film enough to program it, so now we want to help you get the next one made!
IMPORTANT DATES
SUBMISSIONS START: Monday, August 2nd, 2021
SUBMISSIONS END: Monday, September 6th, 2021
NOTIFICATION: Friday, September 10th, 2021
LIVE PITCH DATES: Saturday, September 25 @ HHM (narrative), Sunday, September 26 @ Freep (documentary)
RALLY RULES
If your project is chosen to join the Rally than you'll need to follow these rules. You do not need to create your Seed&Spark campaign to submit your project for consideration, but once selected, you will be coached by Seed&Spark on how to best set up your campaign for success.
All selected projects will need to create a campaign with Seed&Spark and all funding opportunities will transpire through the S&S platform. This is necessary for us to rally support for participating campaigns during and after the festival.
Your Seed&Spark campaign’s total revenue goal must be no less than $5,000.
If your project is chosen for the Crowdfunding Rally, you must be present for the at-festival pitch. Lodging for up to 2 nights in Bay City will be provided by Hell's Half Mile for the narrative project presenters. Freep Film Festival will provide one night of lodging in metro Detroit for the doc filmmakers.
