Lights! Camera! Action: The 10 Films Funded Entirely By Audience
Inocente
Inocente is a 2012 short documentary of a homeless, teenage illegal immigrant in San Diego with artistic aspirations. The film was directed by Sean Fine and Andrea Nix giving it considerably more legitimacy than a cynical and contrived piece of fiction.
Inocente was the first crowd-funded movie to win an Academy Award, but if you give it a chance you’ll see filmmakers Sean and Andrea Fine earned that award instead of just manipulating critics into giving it to them. The film received the 2013 Academy Award for Best Documentary and was later released along with all the other 15 Oscar-nominated short films in theaters by ShortsHD.
Curfew
Curfew is a 2012 short film directed by Shawn Christensen. In the film Richie is a man intending to kill himself when he’s saved by his sister asking him to babysit her daughter. He and his niece spend the evening out and this lifts his spirits. And while at the end he’s reminded that one happy encounter isn’t enough to clear up years of pain that doesn’t mean he has to give up hope. Following that, the film even made headlines by winning the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 85th Academy Awards.
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