Yesterday while sitting at his desk as an executive assistant at MTV, Ryan James Yezek was tracking the progress of the Kickstarter campaign for his new Lgbt rights documentary film project, "Second Class Citizens." Less than a day after posting the video, before he left work, Yezek had attained the $50,000 goal he had set up on Kickstarter. Indiewire spoke to Yezek last night about how he was able to launch such a successful Kickstarter campaign. Lets take a few minutes to figure out how Yezek got there: 1. He wanted to make videos, and so he picked up a camera and made something. A campy parody of Katy Perry's "California Gurls" to be exact. With tons of svelte boys in bathing suits and frolicking beachside choreography, "California Gays" was a huge viral hit when it made its debut on YouTube. "I wanted to start my career as a music video director,...
- 1/18/2012
- Indiewire
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