A doc about Christian MMA fighters? Sounds amazing. Directed by Daniel Junge and Bryan Storkel, it reps the first project for Junge following his Academy Award for the short doc, "Saving Face." What more do you need to know?

We are Filmmaker, and this project is not a film but a magazine. Yes, another magazine. But it's one we like a lot. We're happy that MIT Press has stepped in to keep it going. Support Tom Frank, The Baffler, and all their great writers... and get the new issue in the process.

Some people attract Kickstarter attention by setting a ridiculously high goal. Jono Oliver has done the opposite. Help him get more than the tiny amount he's asking for. Oliver is a talented director and well known 1st AD who has given a lot to the indie community.

For the very first issue of Filmmaker, I interviewed Paul Schrader, who had just made a small indie film, "Light Sleeper." 20 years later he's back at it and employing 2012 techniques. Join him and Bret Easton Ellis as they make the kind of picture Hollywood no longer will.

This ambitious and exciting project, a modern-day, Iceland-set silent film with a musical score by the band Hjaltalin, is the first from the all-female NYC production company Bicephaly Pictures. Take a moment to check out their beautiful Kickstarter video and their website.

If it's a new film by Jessica Oreck, we are there. Jessica was one of our "25 New Faces" after making us be fascinated by beetles in "Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo." We're sure she'll do the same with Finnish reindeer herders. Support her as she reinvents the science documentary.

Looking for gear for your DSLR and don't have it in you to go the home-made slider route? Well, Jeremy Canterbury's REVOLVE may be the answer — and it looks way more impressive than anything we could build ourselves. Check out the video -- and the price for these units.

Filmmaker subscriber Nick Fitzhugh sent word about his 1st feature film, and after viewing the video and reading about it, we think it's a really good, well-presented project. He's got a fantastic team of advisers, a good production plan, and the doc has a real emotional hook.

Frederic King has worked as a producer in both independent film and gaming, and here he's building out the "Tall Bike Joust" game app, which itself was based on a short film, "B.I.K.E." Donate and make this game multi-player.

Here's a cool way to develop a film project. The partners of "The Devil is Due in Dreary" met at IFP Film Week and decided to take this fiction screenplay and turn it into a comic first. They're raising money for issues 2-4, after which they'll embark on the movie version.

We talk about making our own narratives, but sometimes narratives make us. This thoughtful and timely documentary by Therese Shechter aims to "subvert the virginity narrative" found throughout contemporary culture, examining it through political, social and personal lenses.

Filmmaker Ellie Lee, one of our "25 New Faces" won the Tribeca All Access Transmedia Award with this witty and timely project -- a web series depicting a future in which the U.S., in hock to China, uses the state of California to pay off its debts. Help her make the first two!

Artist and filmmaker Karen Gehres follows up her terrific debut doc, "Begging Naked," with this portrait of Astor Barber, the long-running East Village landmark of hair styling.

We've been fans of Jenny Deller's "Future Weather" since it went through the 2011 IFP Narrative Lab. It's a smart, well acted story about a young girl and the study of science that allows her to cope with her abandonment by her mom. It's headed for Tribeca; help it get there.

A timely doc about citizen reporters in China, this IFP Doc Lab project is premiering at Tribeca and raising funds to cover the post work needed to get it there.

Billed as the first affordable digital cinema camera that shoots RAW footage, this new Digital Bolex has burned up Kickstarter with its already successful campaign. At the time I'm posting this, there is only one camera left out of the company's first 100.

Jeremy White, a graduating MFA candidate at UCLA Film School, has made a charming promo video for "The First Hope," a short about a boy whose first crush is ignited by seeing Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia's kiss in "The Empire Strikes Back." And, he's cleared that footage!

Here's a cool project with applications for both parents looking for better baby monitors as well as filmmakers looking to handsfree operate their iOS cameras. Galileo turns your iPhone into a remote-controlled motion platform.

Nick Dawson on our staff flagged this project, which boasts a team comprised of director Brendt Barbur, subject Jorgen Leth, cinematographer Al Maysles and composers Blonde Redhead. In our book, that is an all-star line-up. Check this out and consider donating.

We've heard amazing buzz about this SXSW-bound pic, and we sympathize with filmmakers struggling to clear music rights. The Ross Bros. "45365" was a beautiful doc, and this promises to be the same... as long as 38K is raised to license the songs that will make its images shine.

Memphis-based filmmaker Brian Pera's "Womam's Pictures" series is inspired by classic Hollywood melodrama, psychodrama and noir. He's raising money for its latest, and I don't think I've ever seen a custom-designed perfume as a Kickstarter reward before.

Jason S., one of the co-directors of David Lynch's "Interview Project," is making an authorized doc on Lynch himself. Kickstarter $ will go towards licensing essential material from Francis Bacon, Roy Orbison and Diane Arbus, and rewards include original artwork by Lynch.

In 2006 we selected Kansas City-based filmmaker Gary Huggins for our "25 New Faces" list on the basis of his short, "First Date." Like that film, Huggins' new project stars Santiago Vasquez -- ex-undercover cop and fifth-degree black belt martial artist. It's called "Kick Me."

Two years ago we covered filmmaker Dimitry Trakovsky's first doc, a Kickstarter-funded look at the work of Russian great Andrei Tarkovsky. Now, Trakovsky has a new, strikingly different movie — an observational film about Alaska's Yup'lk people. Check out the trailer.

Support one of the best and longest-running underground film festivals around by buying in advance through Kickstarter a pass to this year's fest. Higher levels bring access to special donor events. Keep underground film alive!

Kirby Ferguson was one of our 2011 "25 New Faces," and his "Everything is a Remix" web series is flat out brilliant. This is his latest multi-part web doc, tracing the origins and transformations of political belief. We can't wait.

Maybe it's the title -- "Do You Like My Basement" -- but this DIY horror project grabbed me. The director has been making docs in New York for a decade, and this is his first narrative feature. Fans of underground -- pun intended -horror should check it out.

Independent film can, and has, meant many types of filmmaking. Photographer Barbara Nitke is raising money to document one of them — the 1980's "Golden Age" of porn. The project is a book containing her work as a set photographer as well as an essay by art critic Arthur Danto.

Kickstarter is about discovery, and here we are discovering Matthew Cherry, a former NFL player heading to SXSW with his debut feature, about life after the game. The trailer looks good, and we haven't seen this subject before in independent film. Check it out.

Based on a Steven Millhauser story, this is a first feature exploring adolescence, peer groups and privacy in the digital age. Both director Caryn Waechter and screenwriter Marilyn Fu have won many awards, and they are joined by an ace producing team, including Lydia Pilcher.

We saw, and liked, Matt Ruskin's character-based thriller "Booster" as it made its way through the IFP Narrative Lab. So, we're happy that others seem to like it too — it's premiering in competition at SXSW. Help Matt get through post so he can make it to Austin.

Tim Sutton brought his gorgeous and subtle film about teenagers to the IFP Narrative Lab, where we were all knocked out by it. It's a uniquely beautiful American art film, and we are thrilled that it's been accepted to SXSW. Help the filmmakers get there!

Some of you may know Dan Nuxoll from his work at Rooftop Films. This very intriguing documentary follows a workplace incident into the realms of the bizarre. Support the film and someone who has been giving to the indie community.

A few years back, Kyle Henry made a great feature called "Room," and we put him in our 25 New Faces series. Now, he's raising money to finish and premiere a four-part film about sexual intimacy.

This isn't film per se -- but this project includes a DVD, and Dylan Carlson's music is unfailingly cinematic. His band Earth was featured on Jim Jarmusch's "Limits of Control" soundtrack, and this is a personal, non-label project.

At Filmmaker, we like producers, and we like to support them when they try to step out of the production office. Thomas Woodrow has produced strong independent films and has also worked hard at new methods of distribution. Now he is directing his own short.

Years ago we had a brief talk with Bell & Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch about a very cool movie musical he dreamed of directing. Now we're happy to see he's actually doing it, aided by producer (and Bell and Sebastian fan) Barry Mendel (Rushmore).

A collaboration between the LEF Foundation, Camden International and Principle Pictures, Doc Yard is an excellent Boston screening series that shows many films we love. Support them and receive a season pass.

Moby Longinotto is a British-born director whose short version of this documentary has screened at Hot Docs and Sheffield. Now he is expanding this startling family story into a feature. Producing is Aviva Wishnow, whose previous film, "Blank City," we thought was great.

A large and somewhat illustrious team of storytellers, filmmakers, designers and generally future-minded people are coming together to create what sounds like a fascinating ARG -- Alternate Reality Game -- taking place both virtually and along L.A.'s Miracle Mile.