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30 Minute Crowdfunding Training For Beginners

‘The thing about crowdfunding for storytelling is people are supporting people and through our empathetic hearts we want to support you when we feel connected to you.’

Melissa Center Jocelyn Jeffries Film Courage Crowdfunding Interview

[Watch the video interview on Youtube here]

 

Today’s Film Courage conversation we have two guests discussing launching and completing a crowdfunding campaign. 

Melissa Center is an actor, fearless filmmaker and empowering crowdfunding queen who helps coach fellow creatives to raise funds via crowdfunding with nearly 1 million raised and counting and a 98% success rate.

Joselyn Jeffries is a filmmaker, host and creative who is passionate about sharing the power of the arts with others. Welcome Melissa and Joselyn…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).

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About:

Melissa Center is an actress, award-winning filmmaker — known for intensely relatable & visceral women’s stories, a published SPEAKer, and leading “Crowdfunding Queen” who has helped creatives raise over $1M for their passion projects. As an actor, her most notable credits include roles on FBI (CBS), This is Us (NBC), Grey’s Anatomy (ABC), Masters of Sex (SHO), and more. Favorite roles onstage include “Maggie” in A Chorus Line (Dir. Mitzi Hamilton), “Olivia” in Sex with Strangers (Hollywood Fringe), and “Jan” in 50 Words (The Lab Creative, LA). She also originated the stage adaptation of Lois Lowry’s The Giver, directed by the late Wynn Handman of The American Place Theater. She is the producer, co-writer and star of feature film, All I Want (Prime, Vudu, TubiTV, itunes) and the co-director, writer and star of award-winning viral short film R.V, a narrative that anticipated the overturn of Roe vs Wade. Her short film His Name is Niv, which she wrote and directed, is inspired by her own experience with sexual assault. Her solo show Marrying Jake Gyllenhaal debuted during Pandemic lockdown via livestream at The Pico, LA followed by Edinburgh Fringe Digital to rave reviews & coverage in Ms. Magazine & Psychology Today.

 

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About:

Jocelyn Jeffries is a filmmaker, host, and creative who is passionate about sharing the power of the arts with others.

 


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