Capital C

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Movie
Original title Capital C
Country of production Germany
original language German
Publishing year 2014
length 87 minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Jørg Kundinger , Timon Birkhofer
production Father & Sun , Myra Productions GmbH

Capital C ( spelling CAPITAL C ) is a documentary by directors Jørg Kundinger and Timon Birkhofer about crowdfunding . The film was co-funded through a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com and is considered the world's first feature documentary on the subject. The film was also financially supported by the FilmFernsehFonds Bayern and the German Film Funding Fund . The English-language title song of the film comes from the German band Glasperlenspiel .

action

CAPITAL C looks at the successes and failures of three independent artists who bring their ideas to the Internet in order to realize their projects with the help of the crowd:

  • With a multi-million dollar crowdfunding campaign, video game pioneer Brian Fargo is celebrating the comeback of his classic game Wasteland after more than 20 years . More than 60,000 supporters then expect an equal successor to his cult game from the 80s.
  • With his crowdfunding campaign for hand-drawn poker cards, Jackson Robinson sees the opportunity to finally gain recognition as an artist. But the young designer's success soon demands its price from the designer's young family.
  • The hippie mentality of Zach Crain's crowdfunding campaign for knitted bottle warmers not only arouses the interest of thousands of fans. The ABC show Sharktank and competing corporations also want their part of the cake.

production

CAPITAL C is an independent production by directors Jørg Kundinger and Timon Birkhofer, which was initiated in 2012 via a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter.com. 586 supporters from 24 countries gave a total of 84,298 US dollars for the project. Co-producer Myra Productions GmbH

The shooting took a total of three years and therefore much longer than the directors had originally planned. Video game producer Brian Fargo, designer Jackson Robinson and inventor Zach Crain are at the center of these documentary recordings.

There are also additional interviews and a. by: Seth Godin , Scott Thomas , Felix Salmon , Molly Crabapple , Eric von Hippel , David Weinberger , Steven Dengler .

publication

The international film premiere took place on September 26, 2014 at the Zurich Film Festival . Further festival screenings took place a. as part of the documentary film festival CPH: DOX in Copenhagen at the Moscow Urban Forum and at the DOK Leipzig in the Leipzig Screening. In Germany, Capital C has been shown in cinemas via Farbfilm Verleih GmbH since 2015. Parallel appeared at the publishing house Orange Press the film accompanying crowdfunding manual Capital C. In May 2015 held in Nuremberg living Jørg Kundinger a crowdfunding conference in Nuremberg in the u. a. the film was also shown.

reception

The majority (around 50%) of the international cinema and festival audience rated the film as excellent.

The Zurich Film Festival jury (including Iris Berben and Stefan Arndt ) gave an Honorable Mention: “This extremely professionally made documentary not only surprised the jury with its liveliness, but also developed a new vision for humanity from a new form of funding : are there possible forms of behavior that give capitalism a human future? "(Stefan Arndt)

Award

After its world premiere at the Zurich Film Festival on September 26, 2014, the film received an Honorable Mention from the jury.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ release document for Capital C . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , July 2015 (PDF; test number: 153 321 K).
  2. ↑ Glasperlenspiel for the first time with an English-language song for the international cinema documentary "Capital C"! Smago !, June 13, 2013, accessed February 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Swarm of patrons. Spiegel, accessed February 12, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Capital C. Zurich Film Festival, accessed on February 11, 2015 (English).
  5. ↑ Capital C. (No longer available online.) CPH: DOX, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 11, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / cphdox.dk
  6. ↑ a b c CAPITAL - C. myrafilm, accessed February 12, 2015 .
  7. ↑ Capital C - The Crowdfunding Handbook. (No longer available online.) Orange-press.com, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on February 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orange-press.com
  8. ↑ Discover: Me. (No longer available online.) Discover: Me, archived from the original on February 15, 2015 ; accessed on February 15, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.discoverme.events
  9. ^ The winners of the 10th Zurich Film Festival. ZFF, accessed February 13, 2015 .
  10. ↑ Happy 10th Birthday, Zurich Film Festival! Golden Globe, accessed February 14, 2015 .