In this episode we continue our conversation with professional filmmaker Thomas Meadmore, discussing his experience of successfully raising £40k through popular Crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to fund one of his latest feature documentary films titled The Cancer Conflict.

Hosted by Karoline Pelikan (@PelikanPictures) and Paul Hulligan (@paulhully).

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Episode guide:

01:10 - Synopsis of ‘The Cancer Conflict’ and it’s background

04:27 - Starting the project without funding (self financing)

05:52 - Deciding to crowdfund and approach

13:03 - Building your own niche audience, tactics

18:23 - Building the ‘machine’. Marketing tactics to gain followers and collect email addresses

35:26 - Launching the campaign, techniques

40:18 - Creating the Kickstarter ‘campaign page’

45:48 - Thoughts on its performance and response

49:27 - Managing ‘the dip’ (when people stop contributing)

52:28 - Reflections (was it worth it?) and top tips.

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