Indie Planet.
Cassavetes, Ashby, Schrader's loneliest hour, new productions still in the can. The Backlot imprint for movies that picked the harder choice. This is the room — threads, screenings, and the green-light board for what gets made next.
The Room
Pinned essays & active threads
Hardcore — Schrader's most uncomfortable film, and why it matters
Green-light nominee: a Charles Burnett restoration of My Brother's Wedding
Fat City vs The Last Detail — which is the truer 70s downer?
Screening debrief — Cutter's Way 4K
Hell in the Pacific — the cut Boorman wanted, does it exist?
Character-study starter pack — Ashby, Rafelson, who else?
Screening Room
Synchronized screenings with the room
Screening Room — Hardcore (1979)
Ashby Night — The Last Detail
Cassavetes Triple — Faces / Husbands / Minnie
Green-Light Board
The room votes. Top nominee each quarter — restoration or new production — moves to the Vault for fractional funding.
My Brother's Wedding (Burnett restoration) (1983)
Charles Burnett's second feature. Director's preferred cut needs proper grading.
Wanda (Barbara Loden, theatrical re-release) (1970)
Tour the restored print theatrically. Build new audience, share profit with estate.
New production: "The Quiet Year" — Kelly Reichardt-adjacent debut (2026)
First-time director, $1.2M budget, fully scripted, cast attached.
New production: "Coastal" — 16mm character piece (2026)
Veteran DP, first-time director, $800K budget. Six-week shoot in Oregon.
How You Can Own It
Three ways to participate on Indie Planet — each with different risk, payback, and upside. Pick what fits.
Save a lost film. Get paid when it earns again.
- Ticket
- From $25 / share
- Payback
- Flat preferred return + revenue share
- Upside
- Streaming licenses · physical media · rep theater bookings
- Risk
- Lower variance. Catalog films have a known revenue floor.
- ·Capital funds a new 4K scan, color grade, sound restoration.
- ·Restored master is licensed to streamers and boutique labels.
- ·Holders receive pro-rata revenue after restoration costs are recouped.
Help a film get made. Own a piece of what it becomes.
- Ticket
- From $100 / share
- Payback
- Back-end revenue participation
- Upside
- Theatrical · streaming sale · festival prizes · sequel rights
- Risk
- Highest variance. Most indies don't return capital; the ones that do can return many multiples.
- ·Capital is part of the production budget alongside grants and equity.
- ·Shares pay out from the producer's back end after the picture recoups.
- ·Holders get dailies, set photos, premiere invites, and a 'thanks' credit at a tier.
Own a slice of the whole Indie Planet library.
- Ticket
- From $50 / share
- Payback
- Quarterly distributions from pooled catalog revenue
- Upside
- Compounds as the catalog grows — new restorations add to the pool.
- Risk
- Diversified across the slate. Lower variance, lower per-title upside.
- ·Single share, exposure to every film in the Indie Planet catalog.
- ·Distributions paid quarterly, net of platform and rights costs.
- ·Designed for holders who want exposure without picking individual titles.
Illustrative structure. All offerings are subject to disclosure documents, suitability checks, and SEC-compliant Reg CF / Reg A+ frameworks. Past performance of catalog cinema does not guarantee future results. Participation carries real risk of total loss of capital.
The Pitch Room
Opening Q4. Where filmmakers pitch — and the room decides what gets greenlit.
Filmmakers pitch in 60 seconds. The room decides what gets made.
- 01Filmmakers upload a 60-second video pitch — concept, voice, why this film, why now.
- 02The Indie Planet room watches, comments, and upvotes. Top pitches each cycle move to the Green-Light Board.
- 03Green-lit projects open for fractional new-production funding. The room helped pick them. The room can own them.
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In the Vault
Indie Planet titles open for fractional ownership
