Kickstarted: A Documentary on the Crowdfunding Revolution

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Kickstarted, a Kickstarter to Document the Crowdfunding Revolution — Kickstarted, a Kickstarter campaign for a documentary on crowdfunding, is one of our top crowd-based projects of the moment. It is the documentary film project of producer Jason Cooper and design pro Jay Armitage to tell the story of the crowdfunding movement. According to Cooper and Armitage: “Our goal is to present a truthful, exciting and inspiring look at what it means to be creative, independent and funded by the crowd.”

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