ncing website Kickstarter.com has electrified the traditional structures of filmmaking. "Girl Walk // All Day," a dance-music film not easily categorized, was enabled by Kickstarter. After creating an eight-minute Internet video, the movie's director, Jacob Krupnick, put in a request to Kickstarter's community for various levels of investment from interested fans. With options like $50 for an associate producer credit and $500 for a dance lesson, he hoped to raise $5,cheap toms,000. He got nearly five times that. "Kickstarter came at a really opportune moment in my life when I needed it," says Krupnick, a filmmaker and photographer. For the last month,http://www.xzhiv.org/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=408768, he's been touring the film at different venues around the country, where screenings often turn into dance parties. It's one of 33 Kickstarter-aided films at the South By Southwest Film Festival. That's a full 10 percent of the festival's entire slate, an eye-opening total that shows what a significant role the nearly three-year-old Kickstarter is playing in financing indie films. Even SXSW Film head Janet Pierson was surprised when she heard the number. "I'm fascinated that this is a viable tool, or seems to be," says Pierson, who produced indie films in the '80s and '90s. "How great that this vehicle exists that's working for all these filmmakers. I didn't know that it would be so viable,toms the shoes." Certainly, the budgets for even small films often get into hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars. Typically, Kickstarter funds makes up a portion of a film's budget. And most of the Kickstarter films still struggle to find theatrical distribution and promotion. But it's undoubtedly emerged as a realistic option to help get a film made. In making a movie, every little bit helps. "It's gone from being possibly a novelty, a different way of doing things, to becoming much more of a tool, much more of a standard thing that people think about," says Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler. "It's giving audiences the power instead of executives." Kickstarter, the leader among crowd funding companies, has funded 19,000 projects in its three years. It funds a variety of things, including music albums, tech products and art projects. Projects are only funded if they reach their target amount. Kickstarter doesn't have any piece of ownership in the finished product, but they take 5 percent from successful funding. (Amazon Payments, which facilitates the financial transactions, also takes about 3-5 percent.) Still, movies have been its biggest success. Of the first $140 million pledged via Kickstarter, $50 million was for movies. Earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival,toms outlet, 17 films with Kickstarter backing played. The festival and the site announced a three year program with the artist development nonprofit Sundance Institute. Recently, Kickstarter has,http://211.103.162.185/dellbbs/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1630006, for the first time,http://liko.kuywen.com/viewthread.php?tid=14550&extra=, repeatedly crossed the $1 million mark in funding a project. Strickler says the last four months have been "particularly nuts." "Kickstarter growing and getting bigger means that more and more projects are having success, mor