How to Lose Everything on Kickstarter and Still Raise a Production Budget

"You know those stories about success on Kickstarter?  Like the one about the final push that got a project over the hump at the last second or the project that hit their goal and kept going to raise more than that proposed budget?
 
This is not one of those stories.
 
This is a story about a failed Kickstarter campaign that kept going and succeeded independently.  No Kickstarter, No IndieGoGo, just a web site and Twitter."

Film Courage