Anna Marie de la Fuente South America’s economic crisis, aggravated by the pandemic, has spawned an unorthodox crowd-funded Argentine-Uruguayan film project, “La Uruguaya” (“The Woman from Uruguay”), which is set to start shooting in the Fall.Project leader-author Hernan Casciari has modeled the financing strategy on his own publishing house Editorial Orsai, which depends on readers to fund the publishing of its books and house magazine.
In just two months, Casciari managed to enlist 2,000 people to invest in the dramedy.Each one of the investors, who contributed a minimum of $100 – one is said to have invested as much as $20,000 – receive an equity share in the film as well as an associate producer credit.
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