article_snippet: 3,000 Dortmund fans and sponsors, along with sponsors, raised €250,000 ($265,000) in the process -- the biggest sum at the time ever raised for a film through crowdfunding in Germany.
article_snippet: so I donated," Dortmund fan Jorn Pansch, who also donated for his mother and brother, tells CNN.
article_snippet: This relationship is no one-way street, though, with Dortmund in response offering up €50,000 ($53,000) towards the project, while providing it with valuable exposure via it social-network sites.
article_snippet: All the money raised from the new film will go into social projects in Dortmund -- historically an industrial and working-class area -- where the club was founded.
highlights_snippet: Film was funded by 3,000 Dortmund fans and sponsors, raising $265,000 .
  