Moto70 wrote:

Perhaps it should be the people who made money that the film is about who should be dipping into their pockets? I think that if they are trying to raise funds for this then any contribution should be as investor with a potential return of more than a digital copy of the film. I am in a ratty mood today though so you can probably ignore most of what I have just written...

The subjects of a documentary funding the documentary could be problematic.

They want $35,000? What the fuck for?

People they want to interview:

Jon Hare, Matthew Smith, Paul Drury, Archer Maclean, Geoff Crammond, Tim & Chris Stamper, Jeff Minter, Andrew Braybrook, The Pickford Bros, Oliver Twins,  Oliver Frey, Roger Kean, Franco Frey, Gary Penn, Gordon Houghton, Gary Liddon, Matthew Uffindel, Eugene Lacey, Steve Merrett, Gary Bracey, Iain Lee, Chris Anderson, David Braben, Sandy White, Malcolm Evans, Jon Ritman, Ian Livingstone, The Pickford Brothers, Violet Berlin, Fred Harris, Rob Hubbard, Ben Dalglish, Ally Noble, Malcolm Evans, Stuart Fotheringham, Kevin Toms, David Leitch, Jon Gibson, Tony Crowther, Lee Kirton, Eugene Evans, Simon Munnery, Dominic Wheatley, Geoff Brown, David Darling, Bruce Everiss

That might go a way to explaining it. I'd imagine that it wouldn't be too cheap to get to all of those people, and it's likely to take a fair while to do.

Also, they live in London, so double your costs.

This has gone into it's second phase with a kickstarter.

The first campaign was to raise funds to go and complete the filming and principle photography for the film. Thanks to you and the others that backed our campaign we raised enough to do this, so we’ve been filming almost continuously throughout 2012 and are very close to completing all filming in 2013.However as is common with many films financed via crowdfunding, money is now needed to complete post-production, to secure archive footage, stills, music usage and clearances. Without these crucial elements the film would simply be 2 hours of talking heads and not the true and lasting documentary movie experience that the subject matter deserves. 

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1195082866/from-bedrooms-to-billions

However as is common with many films financed via crowdfunding, money is now needed to complete

Or any mis-managed project.

Fuck me.

Well of the films I've backed, they're all behind on their delivery date despite the films being cut and shown at private/industry events which is quite perplexing. I think any future pledging in the arts won't include film.

Waiting on the Bill Waterson docu & K2 docu amongst others. Though the Waterson one isn't behind. Yet.