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The Theater — catalogue, channels and the Festival

Where finished films are watched: a browsable catalogue, creator channels, and a curated festival.

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### The catalogue

Rows by genre, mood and recency, with a search that understands a sentence — "quiet science fiction"

finds quiet science fiction rather than every title containing the word "science".

Everything in it was published by a creator and passed moderation. There is no licensed third-party

content, so what you are browsing is entirely what this community made.

### Creator channels

Every account has one at /theater/channel/your-handle. It carries your published titles, your

public profile and your subscriber count.

A channel is the unit an audience follows. That is the point of distribution being built in: a film

finished here ships with somewhere to be watched and someone to watch it, rather than being a file

you then have to find an audience for.

### The Festival

A curated, time-boxed selection — a programme rather than an algorithmic row. Entries are chosen by

hand, they run for a fixed window, and the selection is announced rather than gradually appearing.

It exists because an infinite catalogue is a bad place to be discovered. A festival is a small number

of films that someone is prepared to vouch for, which is a completely different proposition for a

first-time viewer and for the creator being shown.

### What gets in

Publishing runs through [two-stage moderation](/help/moderation-stages): safety first, craft second,

kept deliberately separate so a rejection tells you which one it was. A safety rejection is not a

note about your film being slow.

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