Lucas Crandles

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22 Feb 2012

Writer/Producer
Dark Heart Productions
http://www.darkheartproductions.com
Lucas Crandles is a Melbourne-based film, TV and online writer/producer.

He has long believed in the power of New Media to deliver high quality content to audiences around the world and his own work with Dark Heart Productions has garnered over 3,000,000 views online.

He has agency representation in Australia and in the US, where his team won the New York Television Award for Best Writing, and Los Angeles International TV Award for Best Animation.

Crowdfunding independent television

22 Feb 2012

Author: Lucas Crandles.
If you’d suggested a few years ago that I’d be trying to raise the funds to independently produce a TV series through crowd-funding and social media, I’d have thought you mad. TV is a notoriously expensive medium and traditionally, if you don’t have a distributor, you don’t have a show. But a chance meeting in New York last year opened our minds up to this still very new and largely untested idea of online engagement to fund content. Let’s go back a bit.