Boost Your Work: Running A Successful Boosted Campaign

Crowdfunding a film is one thing. Keeping a campaign alive, building momentum, finding your audience, and turning strangers into supporters is something else entirely. This panel brings together filmmakers for an honest conversation about what it actually takes to run a successful creative crowdfunding campaign in Aotearoa.

We will have Flynn Robson from Boosted, New Zealand's dedicated arts crowdfunding platform discuss how the platform works. He will be joined by Annabel Kean (The Weed Eaters) and Kim Georgine (A Son's Return Home), two filmmakers who have successfully been through the process themselves.

This session goes beyond the basics. Expect practical insights on platform optimisation, lateral thinking around outreach, and a frank discussion about what nobody tells you before you launch.

Whether you're mid-campaign, planning your first, or just crowdfunding-curious, this panel is your chance to learn from the people who've been through it, and come away with ideas you can use straight away.

We thank The Arts Foundation for collaborating with us on this event, as well as Kōawa Studios for hosting it. We are excited to be the first event held at the new theatre!

Date: Wednesday 25th March
Location: Kōawa Theatrette, University of Canterbury, Carpark 3, 21 Dovedale Avenue, Christchurch
Time: Drinks and nibbles from 6pm, workshop from 6:30pm-8:30pm

Free for WIFT members, $20 for non-members.