Peer-to-peer solution for commerce, streaming and financing of independent films and series over the Internet

What is Filmgrid?

Filmgrid is an ideological project, seeking to create a business redundant platform that provides a fair innovative alternative to movie business; removing intermediaries from the creative and producing processes.

A place where independent filmmakers and viewers can interact in order to create better movies with richer content and true artistic freedom. The application will offer all the services needed for this to be integral reality:

The Billboard. A movie marketplace where creative users may offer their movies, and viewer users can buy them and stream them.

The Pitchboard. A podium where film projects can seek funding either by obtaining it from the Filmgrid’s production fund, pre-sales or collective production.

The Critique Bay. A social network environment that promotes the connectivity between all the users and the spread of ideas.

Filmgrid will use the power of blockchain technology to manage transactions and hosting the smart contracts that will secure funds, voting, and other important aspects that make Filmgrid unique.

Addressed Issue

In a traditional Hollywood-like business model, income is produced with the sale of theater tickets, digital and physical video copies, licensing to SVOD services and others. The typical scenario for profit distribution will include a Recoupment Waterfall, an accounting technique designed to provide control to the middlemen, hence the manipulation of profit.

We come up with an innovative business model, cutting out intermediaries, aiming for the moviemaker to be the one who make the most profit, receiving income from the first sale. This brings the opportunity to dramatically lower down the cost for the viewer.

Filmpass Token

Filmgrid’s utility token, Filmpass (FILM), is designed to be the means of payment for buying and renting movies and series episodes within the platform.

Token specifications:

Standard: ERC20

Name: Filmpass

Ticker: FILM

Decimals: 18

Max. Cap: 1,000,000,000 Tokens

Contract: 0xdadfd3814684a3a08a001500a98eef74f4ac1712

Token Distribution

The FILM token distribution consists of four sales, each one unique and oriented for different markets. Out of the 1 billion FILM tokens, 800 million will be distributed in total; 200 million will be kept to be distributed among Filmgrid and the founding team.

PRIVATE SALE

Date: May 1st 2019 - June 30th 2019

Price: 1 ETH = 11,000 FILM

Tokens for Sale: 20,000,000 FILM

PRESALE

Date: July 1st 2019 - July 31st 2019

Price: 1 ETH = 7,000 FILM

Tokens for Sale: 60,000,000 FILM

SALE ROUND 1

Date: August 1st 2019 - August 31st 2019

Price: 1 ETH = 3,000 FILM

Tokens for Sale: 320,000,000 FILM

SALE ROUND 2

Date: Sept. 1st 2019 - August 31st 2020

Price: Dynamic

Tokens for Sale: 400,000,000 FILM

The tokens will be minted according to the dates and amounts of the distribution sales.

Why Blockchain?

Because its decentralized nature is a perfect fit for the principles/tenets behind Filmgrid. Furthermore, it can solve problems that traditional centralized technology cannot, particularly issues of censorship, intermediaries interference or trade transparency for example.

To provide integrity verification for video files, we will store the data off-chain and store a hash of the data on-chain. This guarantees that the data is not being modified while protecting the blockchain from becoming bloated. We are exploring the benefits of IPFS, to implement in the near future.

With the intention of being productive as soon as possible, the first two years, business will take place on the Ethereum network, the DApp and the Smart Contracts will run on top of the blockchain. Gas costs will be cover by the platform, not the users.

ROAD MAP

2016

June

CONCEPT

Applying our beliefs about movie industry in a fair business model.

2017

March

BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGY

Adapting and enhancing Filmgrid to Blockchain Technology.

Blockchain Technology

September

BUILDING THE PROJECT

This .space web site has been created to record and inform the project.

2018

April

WHITE PAPER

Structure and developing of our White Paper version 1.0.

August

ICO LISTINGS

Project registration on ICO listing specialized websites.

December

PLANNING RESTRUCTURING

Improvise. Adapt. Overcome. Rethinking the plan of action.

2019

February

DIGITAL MARKETING

Public Relations, SEO, Social Networks and online publicity.

March-May

PRIVATE SALE & PRE ICO

Filmpass Token Distribution in an Pre Coin Offering (ICO).

May

DAPP AND SMART CONTRACTS

Developing the DApp and Smart Contracts and public release of the code.

June

INITIAL COIN OFFER

Filmpass Token Distribution final and long round begins.

November

FILMGRID ETHEREUM RELEASE

Minimum Viable Product with the Billboard and early Pitchboard.

December

FILMGRID PLATFORM

Start the development of the Filmgrid Blockchain and configuration.

2020

January

DAPP MARKETING

Worldwide promotion of Filmgrid Decentralized Aplication.

May

QA AND MORE CODING

Well, all the work that has to be made to realease a top quality product.

August

FILMGRID PRIMITIVA RELEASE

Filmgrid Blockchain Platform Version 1.0 Release.

MEET THE TEAM

ANDRÉS ÁVILA TORRES

DIRECTOR / FOUNDER

Andrés is a Certified Bitcoin Professional (CBP) and holds the Linux Foundation X, Blockchain for Business Professional Certification. He has 7+ years of experience in Fintech business development, with a very strong knowledge in Regulatory Compliance.

OSVALDO NÚÑEZ MELGOZA

OPERATIONS MANAGER / WRITER

Osvaldo is a true believer of science, numbers are his passion, and passion is his way. He is a person of deeply rooted ideology and practical experience, makes the project stronger and keeps us on track for Freedom of the Art.

EDITH VALLE

OPERATIONS COORDINATOR / FILMMAKER

She is an independent filmmaker with a broad and international experience in all types of movies, from short, to long films; she holds a Masters Degree in Cinematography Direction from Escuela TAI in Madrid, Spain.

STEFANIE ZÖHRER

CREATIVE MANAGER / ILLUSTRATOR

With a Degree in Visual Arts and an Illustration Diploma from The New School of Design of Parsons, Stefie ads to the project a lot of knowledge when it come to talent management, professional equipment and production processes.

HUGO ARRIAGA TAPIA

CREATIVE SCOUT / FILMMAKER

ALEX SALAIS

DIGITAL MARKETING / MUSICIAN

Alex holds a Bachelor of Law in Marketing Management from the Autonomous University of Nuevo Leon and is a certified Adwords expert. He saw the project as an opportunity to fully advocate decentralization as an ideology.

LORENA MEZA ZAMORA

CUSTOMER CARE COORDINATOR / MAKE UP ARTIST

OMAR BERMUDEZ DE LA CRUZ

CUSTOMER CARE SUPERVISOR / PHOTOGRAPHER

ADVISOR BOARD

NAVIIN KAPOOR

ICO ADVISOR

Founder of The Times of Crypto, Joboshi, and a top three blockchain ICO Consultant/Advisor in ICOBench and have extensive knowledge of ICO marketing, PR, and subject matter knowledge of blockchain and ICO. He has experience in participating in more than 40 ICOs.

GINA CRUZ LOZANO

REGULATORY COMPLIANCE ADVISOR

Gina is a Certified Compliance Officer by the CNBV in México, expert in matter of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering Financing of Terrorism. With a keen eye to analize the available body of facts, nothing gets by her. She has 7+ years of experience in money transfer.

OSCAR MORENO OLVERA

TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR

Oscar is data/storage specialist with a lot of experience in data centers, server infrastructure and cloud services. He has ventured into crypto mining, finding in blockchain a new passion along the way