{"id":739303,"date":"2013-02-25T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=614093"},"modified":"2013-02-25T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T21:05:43","slug":"fox-in-the-hen-house-kickstarter-backed-short-wins-oscar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/739303","title":{"rendered":"Fox in the hen house: Kickstarter backed short wins Oscar"},"content":{"rendered":"

Inocente<\/em><\/em><\/a>, the story of a 15-year-old San Diego homeless girl wanting to become an artist, won the Oscar Sunday for best short documentary. It was also the first Kickstarter-funded film to win an Academy Award. It was one of the three Kickstarter-funded films<\/a> nominated for an award; the other two being Kings Point<\/em> and Buzkashi Boys<\/em>. So far six Kickstarter-funded films have been nominated for Oscars.<\/p>

Kickstarter is slowly and surely becoming a major force in the film business, something I noted in my post earlier this year<\/a>.\u00a0The Inocente<\/em> win comes close on the heels of Kickstarter-backed films taking center stage at the Sundance Film Festival. According to Kickstarter,\u00a0the total amount of dollars pledged to Film and Video projects is, as of today, $104.9 million. And in 2012<\/a>, Kickstarter saw $57.96 million dollars pledged and 3,891 successfully funded projects in 2012.<\/p>

When\u00a0I interviewed Kickstarter CEO Perry Chen last year<\/a>, I asked him if Kickstarter could perhaps upend the institutional control of the creative industries. Here is what he said:<\/p>

we\u2019re used to this industrial creative complex of movie studios, record labels and production houses. It wasn\u2019t always that way. This is relatively recent in human history….any dent we can put into the machine we\u2019re happy to do. I think we\u2019re already seeing it. A lot of these things that are getting funded would not have been funded in any way.<\/p><\/blockquote>

Looks like fox is in the henhouse.<\/p>
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