Journeys In FilmSep 2, 2025

New at Journeys in Film: The Social Dilemma Teaching Resources! This documentary-drama hybrid reveals how social media is reprogramming civilization, with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations.

Teach about digital literacy, media literacy, and online safety with this powerful resource collection. Adaptable adaptable for middle, high school, and college.

https://journeysinfilm.org/the-social-dilemma-teaching-resources/

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Show threadDaniel BlakeMar 5

@JourneysInFilm @Em0nM4stodon @education @edtech @homeschooling

So it’s available on Netflix? FFS put it on PeerTube.

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@Daniel_Blake @Em0nM4stodon @education @edtech @homeschooling Hi, Daniel. We are PeerTube fans, too!

However, we are not the filmmakers, and we do not control distribution of the films. We work with filmmakers as a third party to create educational materials for their films.

But, that said, we do talk about the Fediverse with the filmmakers we know, and we specifically recommend PeerTube for hosting their trailers, especially in light of Vimeo's 20025 acquisition by Bending Spoons.

It's a huge challenge for indie films to even make back production costs. If anyone can work out a viable financial model for filmmakers to distribute films through PeerTube, especially right now when film funding is drying up and the film world is more precarious than ever, indie filmmakers would be all over it.

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Show threadStrypeyMar 7

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> If anyone can work out a viable financial model for filmmakers

@ajroach42 has written some great threads about independent video-making and distribution. Not sure if any of them have covered funding or how to make a living out of this work, but maybe?

The challenge is similar for musicians, app developers and other makers. There's a community of musicians and music app makers talking about it in some topics here, eg;

https://the.socialmusic.network/t/money-making-strategies-for-musicians/260

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Money-making strategies for musicians

An old proverb claims money to be the root of all evil. It’s a perfectly valid choice to keep your art separate from your money-making activities. However, there are only so many hours in a day – while the making, recording, and distributing of music all have costs in terms of time and material resources. If you’re here, chances are you’re looking for ways to at least break even – and, hopefully, be able to live from your music altogether. So, here are some more or less established pathways for...

The Social Music Network
Show threadAndrew (Television Executive)Mar 7

@strypey @JourneysInFilm @[email protected] @Em0nM4stodon I have written about it at length, but so far the answer has mostly been "it's hard!"

People don't like to pay for things, people often can't pay for things. Even when people are willing to pay for things, the artist still often makes no money (Spotify.)

I put everything I make up on the internet for free, because that's the best path towards someone seeing it. I sell merch, I take donations, I have a patreon, I sell advertisements. None of it works well unless you have a large audience, which you will only get by giving things away or working with a curator.

Mostly, I don't make money.

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@ajroach42 @strypey @Em0nM4stodon We want better for you and for musicians, filmmakers and artists across the board.
Show threadJourneys In FilmMar 11

@ajroach42 @strypey @Em0nM4stodon @Daniel_Blake

We're popping back in to add that several of our filmmakers distribute their work through Kinema as an alternative platform and they have great things to say about it. Fedi filmmakers may want to check it out.

https://kinema.com/filmmakers

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Show threadJourneys In FilmMar 11

@ajroach42 @strypey @Em0nM4stodon @Daniel_Blake

We also recommend The Distribution Playbook from Kinema and Seed & Spark. It was specifically designed for video creators as well as filmmakers. It's fairly comprehensive but if you're aware of good resources that it's missing, they also welcome contributions.

https://thedistributionplaybook.notion.site/

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Show threadJourneys In FilmMar 7

@strypey @ajroach42 @Daniel_Blake @Em0nM4stodon Yes, there's real common ground between indie artists of all stripes these days.

Thank you for the thoughtful reply and those links. We'll check them out!

*AFAIK, everyone on the Journeys team is a filmmaker, writer, musician or artist of some kind, too, so this speaks to us all personally, as well as to the filmmakers we work with as an organization.