
When SXSW Money Crunch Hits, Kickstarter Comes to the Rescue
• www.wired.comGuevara-Flanagan and producer Kelcey Edwards turned to a team-up similar to those often found in comic books: Wonder Woman and the awesome power of the crowd.
“Kickstarter was huge,” Guevara-Flanagan told Wired over tea at a San Francisco restaurant last week, just a day after sending the final edit of her film, Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines, to SXSW. “Having made documentaries for over 10 years, there’s just never been anything as successful as this.”
The filmmakers quickly set up pledge drive on the crowd-funding website, but almost a week into their campaign they remained $9,000 short. Then Lynda Carter — the actress who played the Amazonian ass-kicker in the Wonder Woman TV series, and a subject of the documentary — put out a call on Facebook and Twitter, telling her fans that Wonder Women! needed help.