Lucas McNelly

The Micro-Budget Conversation: Is Enough… Enough ?

When and how did Edward Burns become the mouthpiece of micro budget cinema? That’s a question I asked on Facebook after a late night holiday bender and noticing the ridiculous amount of press Ed got for making a film that certainly didn’t cost him 9K. Then I thought, who really does make a film for 9K? If you add up all the favors and salaries that are not getting paid you’re in the hundreds of thousands. Then I thought, oh man is there any such thing as micro-budget at all? Or is it like the myth of cover girl beauty. […]
by John Yost on Feb 16, 2012
A THANKSGIVING KICKSTARTER FOR “YEAR WITHOUT RENT”

If you visit this site regularly, then you’ll know about “A Year Without Rent,” filmmaker Lucas McNelly’s Kickstarter-funded twelve-month experiment in community-minded film production and online journalism. At the beginning of this year McNelly staged a dramatic Kickstarter campaign for what seemed like a crazy goal: he’d spend twelve months crisscrossing the U.S., working for free on independent films. Then, he’d document them on his site and at places like Filmmaker, Film Courage, Film Threat and Mubi. The Kickstarter raise was successful, and McNelly has been hard at work since then — rigging lights, manning craft service, holding a boom, […]
by Scott Macaulay on Nov 1, 2011
A COME-FROM-BEHIND, 9TH INNING KICKSTARTER WIN

It’s 12:01 as I type this, and Lucas McNelly’s Kickstarter project “A Year Without Rent” has just closed out its successful campaign, raising $12,178 from 243 backers — $178 over the project’s goal. What’s absolutely remarkable about the project’s success is that the great majority of its money — over 75% — was raised in the final days and hours of the campaign. Now, come-from-behind Kickstarter successes are not that uncommon as many filmmakers line up backers ready to cinch their campaigns with large, last-minute donations. But I don’t think that’s what McNelly pulled off. In fact, looking at the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 8, 2011

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