Working The Crowd, Funding and Process with Kirby Ferguson

How to stay on track when your supporters tell you you've "got your thumb up your ass". The crowd is not easy to please, but neither is it easy to research and create an innovative documentary series! Kirby Ferguson is a Canadian filmmaker, writer, and speaker whose work covers creative works and popular culture; particularly remix culture. He is best known for his documentary series Everything is a Remix and This is Not a Conspiracy Theory.

Joining MetaPod host, Martin Franklin for a conversation in late February 2020, Kirby talks about his three crowd-funded projects using Kickstarter and Patreon and how he kept his supporters onboard for the production process.

The first episode of his series took 2 years to arrive, so some of the Kickstarter funders became "unhappy campers". In the extreme they accused him of fraud which understandably didn't help motivation and focus to deliver a major project.

Nevertherless, Kirby's work has been released and received with great acclaim. His ability to track social and conceptual phenomena has created not one but two engaging and enlightening film series that sit somewhere beyond documentary into cultural meditations on the places we find ourselves in.

Embrace The Remix

Kirby Ferguson speaking at TED XOXO 2015 https://www.ted.com/talks/kirby_ferguson_embrace_the_remix

Links

• everythingisaremix.info
• thisisnotaconspiracytheory.com
• kirbyferguson.com

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