Independent filmmakers only
Independent shorts and series pilots, free to watch. If you want more, you fund the next one.
Kickstarter meets Netflix
You already pay a monthly subscription to the big streaming platforms. So why are you still watching ads? Here, creator content is funded by you, the people, not by advertisers.
Every series pilot and standalone short streams free. No sign-up wall, no pre-roll. The film is the pitch.
Want more? Pledge from $1 toward the next episode or the creator's next short. Goals are all-or-nothing, so nobody pays unless it gets made.
Goal hits, creator ships, backers watch first, and the top tiers roll in the credits. Then the loop starts again.
Tap a tier to see exactly what backers get. Platform fee is 10% on the first $100 of any pledge and 5% on everything above it, so a $1,000 pledge costs $55 in fees, not $100.
Audience powered discovery
5 films
Sarah Whitfield
A stranded survey pilot receives a rescue transmission from a colony that vanished twelve years earlier.
Jenna Marsh
One rule keeps a family alive after sundown: never open the basement door.
Kenji Nakamura
A night train carries forgotten dreams across a mountain pass that appears once a year.
Marcus Bell
Two sisters sell artificial daylight to survive a city that has forgotten morning.
David Okafor
A night-shift harbor pilot talks about the boats that never came back, in one unbroken take.
Now Playing
Watch the pilot free. Fund what comes next.
Every film streams clean: no pre-rolls, no forced overlays, no noisy chat waterfall. When it ends, the audience funds the next episode of a series, or a creator's next standalone short, and the creator keeps 90% (95% of anything above $100).
Watch parties
Five or more viewers unlock a private room. Nobody outside the code can see it.
Watch together
Get a party code, send it to your people, and press play in sync. At five viewers the room unlocks a private chat and voice channel that only your group can see, on whatever screen each of you is using.
Fire Trials
Friendly, opt-in, and both sides walk away with an audience.
Creator profiles
Viewer profiles live only on your devices and are visible to no one else.
@sarahwhitfield · Portland, OR
Ex-VFX compositor making hard sci-fi on a laptop. Red Moon Signal is the first series I have ever finished a pilot for.
@jennamarsh · Austin, TX
Horror in single locations with no budget and a lot of patience. I shoot everything after my kids go to sleep.
@kenjinakamura · Vancouver, BC
Animator working with AI tools and hand-drawn cleanup. Last Train to Oslo is a five-episode dream if the crowd wants it.
@marcusbell · Detroit, MI
Slow, quiet dramas about people who are broke. Borrowed Sun took eleven months and four hundred dollars.
Plans
None of these plans include ads. There is no plan that includes ads.
Free forever
Every pilot and short, no sign-up wall, no ads. Back what you want, when you want.
$4.99 per month
The Netflix half. Early access to everything, no per-episode fees, and a free unlock every week.
$12 per month
For creators with a campaign running. Everything you need to run it like a studio.
Other ways FlickFire earns: 10%/5% on pledges, watch-party rooms above 25 people, and a share of poster print-on-demand. Never sponsorships, never pre-rolls, never a "lite" tier with ads.
Creator milestones
Milestones raise your visibility and lower your fee. None of them are cash, all of them are permanent.
Creator tools and guardrails
Independent filmmakers publish a standalone short or a series pilot, live-action or AI-generated, with a minimum runtime of three minutes. If it catches fire, the audience funds the next one.
Track every funding goal, next episode or next short: gross pledges, the capped platform fee, processor fees, refunds, holds, and creator balances before automating payouts.
Monitor video minutes, estimated delivery cost, per-film spikes, quality caps, and emergency publishing controls.
Handle reports, takedowns, creator review status, audit logs, and suspicious engagement patterns without overbuilding.
Funding guardrails
Creators pick a goal inside a range set by runtime and format, and every campaign shows a three-line breakdown of where the money goes: production, post and delivery, creator time. We don't audit it. The audience does. First campaigns are capped until the creator delivers once; after that, delivery history is the trust signal.
| Format | Guided goal |
|---|---|
| 3 to 8 min short | $1.5K to $6K |
| 8 to 15 min short or episode | $3K to $12K |
| 15 to 30 min episode | $8K to $25K |
| First campaign, any format | Capped at $25K until you deliver once |
House rules
Films the crowd consistently votes down rotate out of discovery after 30 days. No bottom-ten lists, no public shaming, and the creator keeps their backers and their page.
Every film shows its reactions and view count. Who you are, what you watched, and how you voted never leaves your device.
You should not pay to watch and be forced to sit through ads. Pilots are free and clean; the next one is funded by people, not sponsors.
MVP roadmap
