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Help Haiti
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- Go to HELP HAITI on IndieGoGo
- Make a contribution
- Pick an IndieGoGo perk
Funds will go to the Red Cross' Haiti relief efforts. IndieGoGo fees will be waived. Let's DIWO for Haiti!
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Fresh New Look
IndieGoGo's looking a little lighter and brighter these days. Thanks for everyone's input and opinions. Here's the new look.
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New Discovery Tools
With over 2500 projects on IndieGoGo, you're bound to find something you like. So we just made it a little easier.
We now showcase FEATURED, ACTIVE & NEW projects on the Home Page and let you search for fun categories on the Projects Listing page.
Check out How To Get Your Project Featured on IndieGoGo for more.
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Live at Sundance!
For Sundance 2010, we've lined up some pretty exciting 6Q interviews and events.
Party: Where Internet & Film Collide
- When: Sunday, 8pm
- Where: Sidecar Bar, 333 Main St (2nd Fl.)
- Who: Brought to you by IndieGoGo, IndieFlix & AFCI
Panel: New Opps in Marketing & Distributing Indie Film
- When: Saturday, Jan 23, 11am
- Where: 545 Main St, Park City UT
We'll be reporting live from Sundance 2010 via the DIWO Download and Twitter. Make sure you're following us so you don't miss out!
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6Q with Eyer & Akers of Seventh-Gay Adventists
[Full Interview]
 Stephen Eyer and Daneen Akers have raised over $8,000 of their $10,000 goal for their project Seventh-Gay Adventists. They've funded their entire first round of production and research through their IndieGoGo contributions.
Seventh-Gay Adventists is fiscally sponsored by San Francisco Film Society. Through our partnership - all SFFS projects can offer tax deductions to their contributors on IndieGoGo. Exciting stuff!
Check out Stephen (SE) and Daneen's (DA) 6Q below.
Q1: Tell us about Seventh-Gay Adventists. What was your inspiration for the project?
SE: Seventh-Gay Adventists is a
documentary about gay and lesbian members of the Seventh-day Adventist church,
a conservative worldwide denomination. At its heart the film is about our need
for belonging and community and the challenges of having two core identities in
conflict.
The log
line is, “A film about love, sex, and eternal life”, and, although it’s
obviously a bit irreverent, I do think that it really sums up the challenge.
How does someone reconcile who they are with what they were raised to believe
God requires? How much bigger a conflict can you get?
Q2: What
are your goals for the film? What impact do you want it to make?
SE: You mean besides radical and
revolutionary change?
DA: We hope this film can help create
more empathy and compassion. We’re deep believers in the power of story to
change hearts and minds. We were deeply disappointed when Prop 8 passed and we
saw our friends get stripped of their rights. Our daughter was born a month
later, and we just really felt like there was so much more to be done so that
she would be raised in a world that was more fair and just. We also felt like
religion had been the white elephant in the room that nobody really wanted to
talk about at the No on 8 phone banks and such. It’s going to have to become a
part of the conversation for lasting change to happen.
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Cheers,
The IndieGoGo Team
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IndieGoGo's upcoming events:
"Sundance Film Festival"
- Party: Where Internet & Film Collide
- When: Sun, Jan 24, 8pm - 10pm
- Where: Sidecar Bar, 333 Main Street (2nd Fl.), Park City, UT
- Who: Brought to you by IndieGoGo, Indieflix & AFCI
- RSVP: HERE
"Sundance Film Festival"
- IndieGoGo Panel: New Opps in Marketing & Distributing Indie Films
- When: Sat, Jan 23, 11am
- Where: 545 Main Street, Park City, UT
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