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FilmFunds to Use Crowdsourcing to Pitch 3D Conversions

[The Wrap]

FilmFunds — a networking site for filmmakers, actors, financiers and fans — has acquired post-production house Duran Duboi US and will soon begin converting movies into 3D, TheWrap has learned.

And the company has developed a unusual way of pitching its conversion services.

Carl Freer, the co-founder and chairman of FilmFunds, told TheWrap that he plans to ask his members what movies they’d like to see in 3D. Then he’ll go to companies such as Netflix and let them know that there is a demand for certain movies to be converted into 3D.

 

Now that the company owns Duran Duboi, which specializes in special effects and 3D conversions, it will offer its services to the companies it approaches.  …

Read the full story here: http://www.thewrap.com/movies/column-post/filmfunds-use-crowdsourcing-pitch-3d-conversions-33790

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