Swipe it.
Fuel it.
Premiere it.
FlickFuel is where original AI-made films get a premiere and their makers get funded for the next one. Every month is a festival. Every swipe you earn is a vote. Every film has a story — three minutes minimum, no clips.
Tap Fuel a few times. Watch what happens at 3,000.
Three swipes, one film festival
No algorithm deciding what you see. A deck of original films, a Fuel gauge, and an audience that shortlists what gets made next.
Watch the programme
Each card is a 60-second trailer for a real film — runtime, category and the AI tools it was made with, right on the card. Swipe left to pass, right to Fuel, up if it's Premiere-worthy.
Back what you believe in
Fuel you earn by watching is what moves a film up the Jury Board. Cross the line and it Ignites — live, for everyone watching, and the maker's next film gets funded. Fuel you buy boosts a film's visibility and tips its maker; it never changes a rank or an award.
Crown the month's winners
On the last day of the month the Festival closes. Gold, Silver and Bronze in seven categories, plus Best Picture. Laurels stay on a maker's profile forever. Then the ladder resets to zero and it starts again.
A new Festival every month
The Jury Board resets on the 1st. Nobody carries momentum, nobody's buried under last year's hits. A first-time maker and a veteran start every month on the same line.
Entry cutoff: films must be published 72 hours before close. Eligibility: original, AI-made, 3:00 or longer, with a story. Anything shorter is a trailer, not an entry.
This is a cinema, not a feed.
- 30-second clipsFilms are three minutes and up. If it doesn't have a beginning, middle and end, it doesn't go in the deck.
- Infinite scrollYou swipe a programme, not a firehose. The deck is finite, curated, and you can put it down.
- A black-box "For You"Ranking is the audience's earned swipes this month, in the open. You can see the Jury Board move.
- Remixes, duets, stitchesOriginals only. Every film carries its maker's name and the AI tools they used — declared, not hidden.
- Landscape firstFilms are made to be watched, so the player is built for it. Vertical is allowed; it's never privileged.
- Makers get paid to makeFuel doesn't disappear into a platform. It funds the next film.
For makers: premiere, get notes, get funded
Upload a film or a Serial, pick your category, declare your tools. Your audience gives you Fuel and Notes — the industry kind. Win a category and the Production Grant pays toward your next one.
FlickFuel+
- Unlimited swipes and unlimited full-length films
- 1080p and 4K where the film has it
- Undo a swipe, front-row Ignition alerts
- +20% free Fuel on everything you watch
- No ads, ever
Free
- 3 Festival entries a month — the same as every paid plan
- Films up to 20 minutes, 1080p
- 2 GB of uploads a month
- Eligible for every category, award and Production Grant
- Judged on exactly the same criteria as everyone else
Maker Indie
- 5 GB of uploads a month, films up to 20 minutes
- 1080p delivery
- Fuel curve, retention and Notes digest for every film
- Priority moderation on your entries
- Everything in FlickFuel+
Maker Studio
- Films up to 60 minutes
- 4K delivery, 40 GB uploads a month
- Serials with episode scheduling
- Custom posters and attached trailers
- Early access to each Festival's programme
How the Production Grant works. Fuel is a voting token — it has no cash value, can't be transferred and is never bought back. Entering is free. Each month FlickFuel funds a Production Grant from its own revenue, sized by a published formula, and pays it to that month's winners and to makers whose films drew Fuel. It is a prize for merit in a competition of skill: the audience produces a shortlist from earned Fuel, and a jury picks the winners against published criteria — storytelling, craft, originality and use of the medium. Makers cash out on the web through Stripe, once verified. Full terms in the Maker Agreement.
Questions
The short version of the rules. The long version lives in the Community Guidelines and Maker Agreement.
What counts as an "AI-made" film?
A film where the moving image was substantially generated with AI tools — Veo, Sora, Kling, Runway, Luma, or anything else. You declare the tools at upload and they show on the card. Live-action footage with AI VFX is fine; a phone video with a filter is not.
Why three minutes?
Because we want stories, not clips. Three minutes is long enough for a beginning, a middle and an end, and short enough that a maker can finish one this month. Anything under 3:00 can be attached as a trailer to an eligible film, but never enters on its own.
What happens when the Festival closes?
At midnight UTC on the last day the Jury Board freezes and the audience's earned Fuel produces a ranked shortlist in each category. A jury then picks Gold, Silver and Bronze in each category, plus Best Picture, Best Debut and Audience Choice, against criteria published before the Festival opened. Laurels go on the winners' profiles permanently, the Production Grant is paid, and the board resets to zero. Films from a previous month can re-enter once.
Is Fuel worth money?
No. Fuel is a voting token — you can't sell it, transfer it or cash it out. Makers don't receive your Fuel; they receive a Production Grant that FlickFuel pays from its own revenue, sized by how much Fuel the audience spent that month.
Can I upload something I didn't make?
No. Originals only. Every upload is fingerprinted against the catalogue and against known copyrighted audio; three strikes and the account is closed. Copyright holders can file a takedown from the site.
How old do I have to be?
16 to watch and Fuel. 18 to upload, enter the Festival, or receive a Grant. Individual films can carry mature descriptors, and those are hidden from 16–17 accounts.
Your next film just got funded.
Free to watch. Free to Fuel. Made by the minds at Indrevo.