For animators and filmmakers
Somewhere to put the film
Stream a short to anyone, sell it, license it to festivals, brands and venues, take patronage by the episode, and find the composer, the voice, the colourist and the illustrator without asking a group chat of strangers.
The problem
A short film has nowhere to live between the festival and the void
It plays four festivals, sits behind a password for a year, and then goes on a video platform to be watched at half speed with an advert in front of it. Nobody can license it, nobody can buy it, and the people who would fund the next one have nowhere to do that.
A release page is all three at once. Stream it, buy it, or license it — with a price list for festivals, venues, brands and editors that does not need you to be at a desk.
The money
Four ways a film pays for the next one
Streaming, and the file for sale
Streamed to anyone from a page with its poster and a synopsis, with the file or the drive for sale through a listing beside it.
Licences
Festivals, venues, brands, classrooms and editors. One price per kind of use, one rights-holder, no clearance labyrinth.
Read morePatronage by the episode
A series funded by the people who watch it, billed monthly, with the animatics and the failures behind the tier.
Read moreThe physical things
Screen prints, cels, art books, the poster somebody actually wants on a wall. Same page, same checkout.
The crew
The people a film needs, in one room
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A composer
The club is full of them, and their releases are right there to listen to before you write. Post a call or license a track you already love.
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A voice
Members record from their own rooms. A call that says a voice for a two-minute short, paid, gets answered the same week. -
A colourist, a sound mixer, a title designer
The crafts that get cut from a budget first. Some of them will swap for something you can make.
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An audience of thirty in a room
Screen it at a gathering before it goes anywhere. Members will tell you what is not working while you can still fix it.
A member scored my short for a swap because I storyboarded her music video. The film then licensed twice and paid for both of us to do it again properly. The written agreement is the only reason neither of us resented it.
Questions about animators and filmmakers
Can I put a film here that is still on the festival circuit?
Who owns the film?
Can I credit and pay a crew?
What licence do festivals and venues buy?
Give the film a page with a price list on it
Streamed by anybody, licensed by the people who pay properly, and credited to everyone who made it.