VIDIVERSE is a new streaming platform made to win the hearts & minds of fellow indie filmmakers (and aren’t we all indie at heart?) by offering a non-exclusive destination for streaming content of all kinds… A curated content provider, we’ll support cool stuff we like (we’re fans too!) and cool stuff we want to see… ALSO in time we’ll partner with creators to help get cool stuff made. VIDIVERSE will hopefully be a seismic shift. A platform built by filmmakers for filmmakers. Sounds pretty neat, huh?
There’s this little thing called YOUTUBE. Heard of it? It’s convinced filmmakers to give it free content, and in exchange YOUTUBE gives those filmmakers… crickets. As “content providers” it’s not that we don’t like giving friends and fans free entertainment… but YOUTUBE profit from our content and we want a fairer situation… so we can earn something from our work and keep making it. Short films do make money… it’s just that this “market” is exploitative. Little or NOTHING goes back to the creators. We want to change that for short films and films of all kind. Creators need a viable alternative. The key, with enabling any filmmaker big or small to earn what’s fair from their work, is to change the paradigm and make it possible to retain their IP and maximise revenue their work can generate.
Our muse is the age we live in… though it won’t all be dark. We love science fiction, the fantastic, horror, animation, and all things weird and wonderful. VIDIVERSE will be a conduit for an eclectic range of films and filmmakers. It may not even all be genre... though genre will likely take priority.
We want to spearhead democracy in streaming. Support the “DIFFERENT” which doesn’t often get support. This isn’t meant to be another YOUTUBE or NETFLIX... Not algorithm-run limits, boundaries, and road-blocks… But rather curated content opening up new horizons.
You can submit your film/s on the form below – think of it as submitting your film to a 24/7 film festival.
Vidiverse VOD will be launched towards the end of 2021
We want to build a passionate fan-base, to encourage enthusiastic interaction between creators and their followers. Blur the traditional divisions between creators and audience. In time we hope to build this audience because of the great choices we’ve made in selecting a diverse range of work, and the sustained quality of the work itself.
And by “diverse” we mean it in every sense of that word. We want to represent the broadest spectrum of voices possible. What we lack in deep pockets to stream the mass-market and narrow-minded, we make up for with embracing the open-minded, the challenging, the brave, the original.
It could lead to even bigger and better things. We look forward to the day we can put a title up that says “a VIDIVERSE ORIGINAL” like those big guys do. We want to help our friends and partners get their films financed and made.
We’ve set our sights high. But we believe we have to. In a nutshell… we want to build a sustainable model that works for all creators. The industry has and will continue to experience radical transformation. A fair and equitable partnership such as this, between creators, platform, and audience, is the future.