James Portnow, Seattle-based game designer and co-creator of Extra Credits, a web series on pro-social game design.
Raised over $125,000 from over 4,000 people.
James and Extra Credits were featured at SXSW, Gamasutra, and the homepage of Reddit.
Meghan Sebold, Brooklyn-based social entrepreneur and designer.
Raised $5,000 for a sustainable clothing line that uses the textiles and talent of Ghana, West Africa.
Her fashion line, AFIA was featured in EcoSalon, TreeHugger, Refinery29, and is now available in boutiques across NYC.
Aram Bajakian, NYC-based avant-garde guitar player.
Raised $4,000 from fans and strangers to fund his album.
Lou Reed heard Aram and chose him as his new guitarist while Aram's album is now released by John Zorn's Tzadik record label.
Darko Lungulov, Serbia-based award winning international filmmaker.
Raised $9,000 from movie buffs for feature film project Here and There.
Film won "Best New York Narrative" at Tribeca Film Festival, featured in Variety, L.A. Times, New York Times, and was a top-10 indie box office theatrical release.
When Last We Flew, NYC-based Off-Broadway theatrical production team.
Raised $7,000 from theatre fans for the premiere Off-Broadway run.
Show sold-out at NYC Fringe Festival, won a GLAAD Media Award, and was featured in New York Times, Bloomberg, and American Theatre Magazine.
Regan Wann, Kentucky-based small business owner.
Raised $5,000 to expand her tea shop business.
RocketHub campaign featured in the Wall Street Journal exposing her business to millions.
Laura Boyd, NYC-based portrait and landscape photographer.
Raised $6,000 architectural photography project on location in Paris.
Photos featured in Artsicle Photography Show in the heart of Chelsea, NYC via LaunchPad.
Joshua Reuben Lewis, NYC-based singer-songwriter.
Raised $7,500 to record his first album.
Showcased at The Gibson Showroom and made A&R connections at Sony, Warner Music Group, and EMI via LaunchPad.
Paul Davis, Berlin-based fashion designer.
Raised $8,000 from fans and strangers for a new fashion line.
Clothing line featured at Berlin Fashion Week.
Caira Conner, Tennessee based NYU Master of Science.
Raised $2,000 to study Brazilian land and infrastructure development.
Featured in Americas Quarterly, completed innovative research, and submitted successful academic thesis.
Darko, originally from Belgrade, moved to New York City in 1991 where he obtained BFA in film and video from City College of New York. From 1997 until 2003 he has worked at the production company Spiral Pictures/Ross Institute as in-house documentary filmmaker. At the same time Darko was a Media Studies faculty member at the Ross school, and taught production courses at Long Island University. In 2004 his feature documentary “Escape” won the Audience Award at its world premiere at Hamptons International Film Festival. It was screened at numerous international festivals since, including: Amsterdam, Leipzig, Go East, Belgrade and Santiago de Chile Film Festival. In 2006 Darko’s script for “Here and There” won Balkan Fund script development award at 47th Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece. Later, the film “Here and There” won Best New York Narrative Award at its world premier at Tribeca 2009 Film Festival with critical acclaim from Variety, MTV and indieWire. After Tribeca, Here and There went on winning of total of 15 awards at the festivals around the world in 2009. The most important awards were: four awards at Cinema Tous Ecrans Festival, Switzerland, including Best Directing Award “Golden Reflection”, three awards at Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, including Best Director of Foreign film award, Special Jury award at Skip City festival, Japan and many others. FIPRESCI Serbia – Film Critics International Federation voted Darko Lungulov for the Best Director in 2009 in Serbia.
At the national festivals in Serbia, HERE AND THERE won many awards, most notably: Sofest – Best Directing, Best Actress; Cinema City - Best Actress and others.
Here and There was voted by Serbian Film Academy for the candidate from Serbia for Foreign language film Oscar, but disqualified because of too much English language in dialogue and the runner-up was sent instead. Here and There won Film of the Year “Oscar for Popularity” award, voted by the audience in Serbia.
Darko’s next project “Monument to Michael Jackson” was nominated for Balkan Fund Script development Award at 50th International Thesaloniki Film Festival in Greece.
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