Crowd Sourcing A Movie Made In North Texas: CNN Reports

A friend of the program pointed me to this clip on CNN’s Backstory about a movie making narrative that is becoming increasingly familiar. Faisal Goes West is a Dallas-based production by filmmaker Bentley Brown that has raised its production budget via Kickstarter, the popular crowd-sourcing website that also mediated funding for a recent release, Blue Like Jazz. Faisal tells the story of a Sudanese immigrant who lands in the Dallas area and eventually finds a job on a chicken farm. It’s a comedy about the American dream. Let CNN tell you more: