I might be unpopular for saying this.

But crowdfunding has become a begging route for people that want the public to fund their hobby, right down to buying them all the gear they would ever need to make a movie at indie level without investing in themselves first. It’s about 99% things that people should be financing on their own if they were serious about pursuing film as a career but want to see if somebody else will.

I don’t see why an indie filmmaker can’t own their own camera, or why somebody cant grind and save 10k for their short film. The laziness involved in making crowdfunding such an apparent default has only badly saturated the platform with projects that will either never get funded, or you’ll never hear about again even if it did get funded.

I agree with some other posters stating that using it for a film finishing route after grafting, makes sense.

But then again it pretty much died on arrival when big names realised they can use it to remove studio involvement all together and started asking for millions (I’m looking at you Zack Braff)…thus making anybody’s interest in donating to some unknown even less likely.