"One morning last week, Christopher J. Dodd, the former senator from Connecticut who is now the head of the Motion Picture Association of America, and John Fithian, the head of the National Association of Theater Owners, both spent time on a panel bemoaning the fact that the Web had enabled piracy of filmed content. But elsewhere in Sundance, it was obvious that Web-enabled fund-raising was helping to produce a fair amount of original films."
— Love this piece by David Carr: At Sundance, Kickstarter Resembled a Movie Studio, But Without The Egos. Carr looks at the success of the crowdfunding site, Kickstarter, which helped finance 17 films on view at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival–a whopping ten percent of the entire festival’s slate. He has some good comments from Kickstarter co-founder, Yancey Strickler, who describes the “agnostic” platform he and his team have created: “The people are the curators — they decide what is going to get made.” And that is exactly what has Hollywood executives quaking in their boots.
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