# Crowdfunding Your Film with Emily Best Canonical URL: ## Overview Raising money and gathering resources is crucial for making movie dreams a production reality. In Crowdfunding Your Film, Emily Best will lay out your options for getting early support and identifying the fundraising sources that'll bring your work to life. When her film Like the Water needed a last-minute infusion of capital, Emily was inspired to start Seed and Spark, the crowdfunding platform she runs as CEO today. In Crowdfunding Your Film, she'll share both her front-line fundraising expertise and her years of experience helping others raise the money needed to make their films a reality. She'll teach you how to: - Create an effective social fundraising strategy - Crowdfund your film - Crowdsource gear and supplies - Create incentives for the audience during every stage of production You'll learn how to develop a community of contributors and supporters that ensures you have the resources you need to bring your vision to life. You'll also learn how to build momentum so your audience follows your film from beginning to end and your project has an audience from the very start. Fundraising and acquiring all the necessary filmmaking materials can be a tremendous source of pressure, but it doesn't have to be. In Crowdfunding Your Film, you'll get real-world insights and practical approaches to funding your film without fear. ## Instructors ### Emily Best Emily Best is the founder and CEO of Seed and Spark, a crowdfunding a distribution platform for film with the highest crowdfunding success rate in the business (84%!) Emily started Seed and Spark after the challenges, community and spirit of making the feature film Like the Water. Emily was named one of the 2013 Indiewire Influencers, dedicated to 40 people and companies that are asking the big questions about what the independent film industry is today (and why) and, more importantly, what it will become. Emily tours film and tech festivals around the world—Sundance to SXSW, Sheffield to Galway—to educate filmmakers and learn their best practices in connecting with their audiences to build a sustainable career. To date, Emily has successfully raised hundreds of thousands of dollars in crowdfunding and sourcing. ## Pricing **Tuition:** $29