Paul Rieth: Lecture about Crowdfunding

Crowdfunding is a means of financing projects based on the “faith in people.” Therefore, at the current edition of the film seminar, 4 Elements offer to all that are planning on using the crowdfunding campaign as one of their financial sources for their projects, the opportunity to find out more about how the campaign strategies in this area work. Paul Rieth, a German expert on crowdfunding, will show on several specific examples from his experience, what principles the campaigns work on and what to do to make them successful. The public lecture is a part of the crowdfunding workshop that 4 Elements have prepared together with the Goethe-Institut. Other parts of the workshop that consist of individual consultations of the projects that have been signed up in advance, are not public.

Paul Rieth studied media and communication as well as sociology at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. During his studies he was already working in marketing and PR but was also making documentaries, created a platform connecting young filmmakers www.filmnetz.org and organized a festival of short films. He is still working in film and new media industry, producing documentary and presentation videos, tutorials etc. With his agency Get Your Crowd he offers consultations and supervision of crowdfunding projects. He is based in Berlin where he works with the local start-up scene, often as a lecturer and speaker, taking part in workshops and lectures.