Your film on real screens, in real towns — without betting your savings on it.

We made an indie film called Abductee. Our distributor offered streaming only — “too hard to book enough theaters to make theatrical profitable.” So we got in the car and proved them wrong, booking indie theaters by hand, one phone call at a time, profitably. Theaters asked for more films like ours. Audiences asked how to find showings like ours. Indie Greenlight exists so the next filmmaker doesn't need to make five hundred phone calls.

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   Your film gets its own page

   yourfilm.indiegreenlight.com — with your trailer, tour calendar, tickets, merch, and socials. You fill in one form; we build it.

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   Audiences find you before a single show exists

   Moviegoers browse films and tap “I'd watch that” on anything they'd see near them. Those taps build a live map of exactly where your audience is — and when enough interest piles up in one area, we take it to a theater: “150 people near you want this film.”

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   Shows are confirmed before anyone risks anything

   A showing is listed; moviegoers reserve seats free, and cards are only charged once enough people have reserved to make the night real. Each theater posts its own terms up front — you see the deal before you accept, and you're always free to decline. You never rent a screen. You never write a check and hope.

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   Your marketing makes itself

   Every showing comes with ready-made social posts built from your own artwork — in your voice, your audience's, and the theater's — each stamped with a QR code straight to your page, so a glance at a phone, flyer, or pre-show screen becomes a vote or a reservation. A simple posting schedule tells you what to share when, from first announcement to last-call.

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   Need a DCP? We won't gouge you for it

   Every theater's profile shows whether they need one. If they do: we'll teach you to make one yourself, free (we've done it ourselves, many times) — or our automated service makes one at a fair flat rate you can roll into your first payout. Either way, you own it forever.

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   Show night, from your living room

   We deliver the film and test-play it before the date. You appear live on screen for the Q&A. A code on screen at the start offers the audience 10% off your merch — printed and shipped on demand, nothing for you to box or mail — and walk-ins buy via QR at the door, so every seat counts in your numbers.

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   You get paid, and you get proof

   Your share within days, handled by an impartial processor — we never touch your money. And at tour's end: a verified report of real tickets, real cities, real audience scores, real merch engagement. When a streaming buyer says “unproven film,” you hand them the document that says otherwise.

Nothing up front. Ever. We take a small, clearly stated share only after you've been paid: 10% of the ticket sales — a traditional distributor would charge you far more for far less.

Made shorts too? We're building greenlit short-film blocks — a curated group of short films sharing one theatrical night. The first real answer to “how does a short film make money.”