Financing films using crowd funding is growing in Australia. It is hard to get
money for a feature if you have not yet made one.
Last week about 100 people gathered in a small studio in inner city Sydney to listen
to Andrew Masterson read excerpts from his novel The Second Coming. Director
David Barker and producer Angie Fielder also talked during the evening about how
they intended to make the 2001 Ned Kelly Crime Fiction Award winner into a film
noir murder mystery, and introduced actress Sarah Snook, who is set to be the film’s
femme fatale.
The Second Coming is about a man who believes he is Jesus and has to clear his
name after he becomes the prime suspect in a murder. It is hoped that the film
version will go into production in 2013.