A few days ago we read the following tweet on @stephenfry’s Twitter:
Pay a £ and be a producer, what could be simpler? Good luck to these people – brilliant idea, charmingly implemented: http://buyacredit.com/
This tweet made us curious and we clicked the link. And what we found there is 100 % AWESOME:
BUYACREDIT.COM is a ground-breaking new project aiming to raise the sum of One Million Pounds in order to fund the upcoming feature film “Dardentor”.
With a donation of one pound (or two dollars) you can purchase a credit at the end of a movie and therefore act as a producer and help financing an independent movie. What a great idea!
Normally it takes it’s time to get a movie funded, even when you’re able to use a platform like this. But it doesn’t take that long when you get support from famous people like Stephen Fry.
Before he tweeted the website, he announced his plan to the webmasters:
I hope you’re ready for a flood: I’m tweeting your website.
And in fact, this single action helped creating a buzz, as Adrian Bliss posted on the Buy a credit Blog:
The result was thousands and thousands of people hitting the site at the same time, and the credits rolled in!
Stephen’s seal of approval has helped build our reputation and will certainly be an asset in the future.
Yes, it will!
Of course, we here at FilmTiki also support those guys by purchasing a credit and tweeting about them! We hope you’ll do the same!
By the way, also read some of the hilarious credit names people bought so far!
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