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Oscars 2013: Kickstarter gets shout out thanks to Inocente

Co-directors Andrea Nix and Sean Fine praised the crowd-funding website to reporters backstage. They said it helped them generate community involvement as well as dollars.

FP Archives|Feb 25, 2013, 10:53:19 IST

The begging and scraping that goes into getting a film financed is rarely mentioned among the glamour and triumph of the Academy Awards.

Not so with the short documentary Inocente, which became the first Kickstarter-funded film to win an Oscar.

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Co-directors Andrea Nix and Sean Fine praised the crowd-funding website to reporters backstage. They said it helped them generate community involvement as well as dollars.

Nearly 300 people donated $52,000 through the site to fund the documentary chronicling the life of a homeless teenager in San Diego.

"It's a great new outlet for films, and especially for documentary films," Fine said.

Kickstarter has more famously raised $160,000 for the forthcoming film "The Canyons," starring Lindsay Lohan.

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