In 2012, Scott Crawford launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund a project he'd already begun, a documentary about the heyday of punk music in Washington, D.C., during the 1980s. Crawford was an established music journalist and graphic designer (he edited the now-defunct Harp magazine from 2001 to 2008), and had been going to D.C. punk shows from the ripe age of 12. But he was a novice filmmaker, chronicling an obscure and, well, noisy genre of music.
That didn't dampen the Kickstarter, which blew past his $32,000 target in less than a week. It turned out that people—lots of them—were excited to revisit this underground local music scene from 30 years ago.
