In the first week of this new year, we took a look back on last year to get some perspective on wtf actually happened. Here's what we saw:

Seed&Spark’s WishList—which allows our crowdfunding filmmakers to build an itemized, wedding registry-esque list of the most important items they need for their production—is proving to be a valuable source of insights into how independent filmmakers are approaching their fundraising efforts, and how audiences are responding. Here are a couple observations from a quick look at the data.

Before we get too far past the acceptable year-in-review-article phase of 2015, we wanted to take a look back at what the hell happened in 2014. It was a pretty big year for Seed&Spark (not that we’ve had any small ones thus far). Here’s a quick recap: