FILMMAKERS CAN EARN MONEY when their films play on Hustlefilms.com. Armand Lucas of HustleFilms is offering filmmakers 10 to 20 cents-per-view to play their shorts on his site as part of “premiere weekends.”
Thereafter, Hustlefilms will continue to pay the filmmaker at a lower rate for as long as he chooses, for up to a year.
Three shorts launched last month: Kenny Austin’s dark drama “Intervention” and Alarich Rocha’s “Circle Drive;” Arie Hovenkamp’s “Summon Lovin'” about a frustrated young man turning to the supernatural to improve his love life, debuted last week.
On Feb. 19, the site will premiere Joe Van Auken’s period war film “1916.”
Lucas started HustleFilms in 2008 as an alternative to ad-supported Revver.com.
“I got tired of getting emails from film festivals that were more interested in collecting submission fees than promoting filmmakers’ works,” he says.
Lucas holds regular short film competitions to choose the films to feature in premiere weekends. HustleFilms also promotes live hip-hop events and competitions. See
