Lucia - The first crowdfunded Kannada movie

Lifeu Ishtene - By makers of Lucia

Lucia The Kannada Movie

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"Lucia is Indian Kannada language independent film directed and written by Pawan Kumar.^[1] It stars Satish Neenasam,Shruthi Hariharan. Lucia was premiered at the London Indian Film Festival on July 20 along with some of the Hindi movies like Monsoon Shootout and Bombay Talkies directed by Anurag Kashyap

Production

In December, 2011 Pawan Kumar announced in social networking website that his next project, after the success of his directorial debut film Lifeu Ishtene, is going to be Lucia. For the next 2 months, he met quite a few producers and top actors and found it difficult to fund his film and that led Pawan Kumar to write a post titled Making Enemies in his blog. Three days after it was published, the response was so overwhelming that he decided to pitch the idea of inviting people to produce the film and Pawan Kumar initiated Project Lucia.^[4][5] Lucia is notable for its use of crowdfunding technique.This cinema funded by 110 investors who contributed to the project through a Facebook page and a blog run by director-actor Pawan Kumar, this movie will be the first Kannada movie to bypass the traditional film financing mode.^[6] The director initially offered the lead role to model turned actor Diganth but he was later replaced by Neenasam Satish, who has played supporting roles in many Kannada films"

(Wikipedia)

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