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Black Movie Trivia is a website that offers a weekly series of online trivia games covering Black Cinema. The games are offered over an approximate 12-month period that is referred to as the “Contest Period.”

=Role as a Crowd Funding Platform=

Black Movie Trivia is aimed at fans of African American films, filmmakers and performers. It provides them with a fun and easy way to share their love and knowledge of Black Cinema while at the same time supporting the creation of new independent films in this genre. Because the site accepts monetary contributions from game players in exchange for the opportunity to win cash prizes, the site can be considered a new type of reward-based crowd funding platform. Further, unlike other crowd funding platforms, the site engages in "wholesale crowd funding" where fundraising takes place continuously throughout the year and is not limited to a specific time period for a discrete project.

Any net proceeds generated from the trivia games during the Contest Period will be used by the game sponsor to support several funding initiatives, including the Shadow and Act Filmmaker Challenge, the Shadow and Act Digital Filmmaker Showcase and a new co-production fund that will provide finishing money to independent filmmakers.

=Game Play=

Users of the Black Movie Trivia site fall into 2 categories: free players and paid players. Free players play scheduled trivia games without contributing to the site’s crowd funding campaign. Accordingly, they are not eligible to win prizes awarded by the game sponsor. Paid players contribute $25 to the site’s crowd funding campaign for each game in exchange for the opportunity to win a cash prize awarded by the game sponsor to the highest scorer. They also receive 5 reward points as part of the site’s loyalty program. The amount of each game’s cash prize is posted on the home page of the site along with each game’s date and time. Since players compete against each other during a game, they must play simultaneously. Points are awarded for trivia questions that are answered correctly. The paid player that scores the highest number of points wins the game and is awarded the cash prize. Tie-breaking sessions are introduced in the event 2 or more players are tied for the highest score. Black Movie Trivia is a game of skill in which players who have deep knowledge of Black Cinema are likely to be high scorers.

There is a loyalty program that allows paid players to accumulate “reward points” each time they play. Based on the number of reward points they earn, paid players are invited to compete in exclusive games for cash prizes in the amount of $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000.

=Game Sponsor=

Beginning November 4, 2013, the game sponsor is CEI Media Partners, LLC. The game sponsor is legally obligated to pay all cash prizes awarded to winning players. The net proceeds from the games will be used by this game sponsor to support the Shadow and Act Filmmaker Challenge as well as other funding initiatives for independent films. This game sponsor has been involved (directly and indirectly through affiliates) in funding original short films by emerging filmmaking talent for a number of years, including Roderick Giles' The Date, Russell Costanzo's The Tested, Darius Clark Monroe's Train and Slow, Carl Seaton's Open, Tahir Jetter's Frisk and Nikyatu Jusu's Say Grace Before Drowning.

=Sample Trivia Questions & Answers=

Who played Celie in the Color Purple? (Answer: Whoopi Goldberg)

What is the name of Spike Lee’s first theatrical film? (Answer: She’s Gotta Have It)

Who won the Oscar for playing Ray Charles? (Answer: Jamie Foxx)

=The Shadow And Act Filmmaker Challenge=

One of the funding initiatives that will be supported by Black Movie Trivia is the Shadow And Act Filmmaker Challenge. Sponsored by Shadow and Act Films, an affiliate of the game sponsor, the Challenge is a contest that awards funds to filmmakers to produce an original short film based on submitted scripts. The winning scripts are selected by the team of contributors to the Shadow And Act on IndieWire blog. Past winners of the Shadow and Act Filmmaker Challenge include Nikyatu Jusu, who directed Black Swan Theory, Rod Gailes OBC, who directed Soft Focus and Ka'ramuu Kush, who directed And Then...

=External Links=

http://blackmovietrivia.com

http://cei-media-partners.com

http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/watch-now-online-premiere-of-karamuu-kushs-s-a-winning-film-and-then

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3088856/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_2

https://vimeo.com/26453372

http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/watch-soft-focus-2nd-s-a-black-filmmaker-challenge-winning-project

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1929199/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

http://www.shadowandact.com/?p=30407