CHEYNI — For Festival Directors

For Festival Directors

Your curation
deserves an audience
365 days a year.

CHEYNI streams your selected films, pays you $0.50 per 1,000 views, and keeps your festival visible to the global film community — long after the lights go down.

List Your Festival Free See How It Works

24+

Festivals Listed

To Get Started

100%

Rights Retained

$1.50

Per 1K Views to Filmmakers

355

Days your festival is invisible

You curate for 5–10 days. Then everything goes dark. Your selections, your brand, your relationship with filmmakers — dormant until next year.

Revenue from your selections after the event

The films you chose and championed generate no income for your festival once the event ends. Your curation work has value — it's just not being captured.

$250

Per newsletter mention on FilmFreeway

You pay to reach filmmakers. Then pay again. Then again. Every submission season. With no streaming context, no analytics, and no relationship beyond the transaction.

Week to justify a year of programming work

Your entire brand presence is compressed into a few days. The films you selected, the filmmakers you discovered — they disappear from the public conversation immediately after.

The CHEYNI Promise

Your programming becomes a permanent, living archive that earns — without you doing anything after setup.

Your festival is listed. Permanently.

Not for a season. Not until you stop paying. Your profile, your selected films, your identity — live on CHEYNI as a curated destination year-round.

Your selections stream and earn.

Every view generates $2 CPM — $1.50 directly to the filmmaker, $0.50 to your festival. Passive income from curation you already did.

Your reach grows without a marketing team.

Marketing Packs connect you to HFP's global filmmaker network, newsletter, and social channels. More submissions, more visibility, less spend.

You keep all rights and full control.

No exclusivity. No long contracts. No rights transfers. Filmmakers and festivals own what they own. CHEYNI is the infrastructure, not the gatekeeper.

What You Get

Everything a festival needs.
Nothing it doesn't.

Built for the reality of how festivals actually operate — small teams, limited budgets, outsized ambitions.

Year-Round Festival Profile

A dedicated, curated page for your festival on CHEYNI — always live, always discoverable by filmmakers, viewers, and industry professionals.

Always On

HD Streaming of Your Selections

Films selected at your festival stream on CHEYNI with full festival context preserved — laurels, program notes, and your curation credit.

Festival Context Kept

CPM Payout — Automatic, Transparent

$2 CPM, fixed and transparent. $1.50 to the filmmaker, $0.50 to your festival. Processed monthly. No opacity, no hidden deductions.

Passive Income

HFP Global Newsletter Amplification

Your festival is promoted through HFP's established newsletter and social channels — reaching a verified network of filmmakers, curators, and industry professionals.

Proven Reach

Performance Analytics Dashboard

Monthly reports showing streaming views, CPM earnings, filmmaker outreach results, geographic reach, and submission pipeline data. Proof for your board.

Data-Driven

Targeted Filmmaker Outreach

CHEYNI sends personalised outreach to filmmakers matching your programming profile — driving quality submissions to your next open call without the mass-blast noise.

Quality Pipeline

20%

Average email open rate in arts & entertainment — your HFP newsletter placement reaches people who actually read it

Upfront cost to list your festival and start streaming. You earn before you ever spend a cent with CHEYNI

Value multiple of a Marketing Pack vs. building equivalent reach independently — at $399/month vs. $1,300+

100%

Rights retained by filmmakers and festivals. CHEYNI is the streaming infrastructure — never the rights holder

Why CHEYNI

Not another
submission platform.

The only platform that makes your curation earn — while keeping your prestige intact.

Feature	FilmFreeway	MUBI	CHEYNI
Passive income for festival	✕	✕	✓ $0.50 CPM
Year-round festival visibility	~ Listing only	✕	✓ Always live
Filmmaker passive income	✕	~ Opaque split	✓ $1.50 CPM fixed
Festival context preserved	~	✕ MUBI acquires	✓ Full credits
No rights transfer required	✓	✕ 2-yr licence	✓ Non-exclusive
B2B marketing tools for festivals	~ $250/blast	✕	✓ Packs from $149
Free to list	✕ $100 activation	✕ By invite only	✓ Always free

The Process

Live in four steps.
Earning from day one.

List your festival

Create your festival profile on CHEYNI. Free. Takes 20 minutes. Your past selections can be uploaded immediately.

Upload selected films

Add films from your programme with full context: your curation note, festival category, year selected, filmmaker credits.

Films go live and stream

Your selections are visible to CHEYNI's global audience. Each view generates the $2 CPM split automatically.

Receive monthly payouts

Your $0.50/1K views arrives monthly. View the full breakdown in your analytics dashboard. Add a Marketing Pack to accelerate reach.

Marketing Packs

Turn your listing into
a year-round engine.

Streaming is free. Marketing Packs are optional — for festivals that want to grow their filmmaker pipeline, visibility, and open call submissions.

Seed Pack

^$149/ month

Establish year-round presence without the budget.

◆1× HFP newsletter placement per quarter

◆1× HFP social post per quarter

◆CHEYNI platform listing badge

◆Monthly analytics report

◆1× open call promotion per year

Get Started

Your festival ends.
Its impact shouldn't.

List your festival on CHEYNI today — free, non-exclusive, no rights transfer.
Start earning from the films you already curated.

List Your Festival — It's Free

No upfront cost · No exclusivity · No rights transfer · Cancel anytime

Your curation deserves an audience 365 days a year.

Everything a festival needs.Nothing it doesn't.

Not anothersubmission platform.

Live in four steps.Earning from day one.

Turn your listing intoa year-round engine.