{"id":4462,"date":"2014-02-24T00:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T05:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smugfilm.com\/?p=4462"},"modified":"2014-02-24T00:18:04","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T05:18:04","slug":"watch-shredder-and-rehearsals-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/watch-shredder-and-rehearsals-for-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch My Films, \u2018Shredder\u2019 and \u2018Rehearsals\u2019, For Free!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHey everybody. It\u2019s your ol\u2019 pal Cody Clarke, editor-in-chief and weekly critic at this here Smug Film. We\u2019ve built a bit of a relationship, y\u2019all and I, over the year-and-a-month that this site\u2019s been in existence. I feel the love from you coming here and reading all our stuff, and I hope you feel the love right back from me. We\u2019ve got a great thing between us, you shadowy blips on the views counter and myself. Sometimes I wish you\u2019d participate more with comments and stuff, but s\u2019all good\u2014you read, you enjoy, and that\u2019s what matters most of all.<\/p>\n

Because<\/i> we don\u2019t exactly talk much\u2014like I said, totally fine, no worries\u2014you might not know that I\u2019m not just<\/i> a pontificator on all things film\u2014I\u2019m a maker of them as well. I\u2019ve made two feature-length films to date\u2014Shredder<\/a> and Rehearsals<\/a>. <\/b>Ya boy Harry Brewis reviewed the former<\/a> on here not too long ago, and ya girl Chloe Pelletier reviewed the latter<\/a>. These films mean a lot to them, and mean a lot to a bunch of other people. But as of yet, they remain unseen by most.
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\nIt\u2019s hard getting your movie seen. Unless you or your work has some notoriety behind it, it\u2019s like it doesn\u2019t exist. Gone are the days of the late 80\u2019s and early 90\u2019s where making an independent film was cool and impressive. Nowadays, anyone can make them, and so saying you made a movie is like saying you drew a picture on a piece of paper with a sharpie. Don\u2019t get me wrong, the democratization of filmmaking is a wonderful thing\u2014I\u2019m just saying that distribution hasn\u2019t really caught up. We\u2019re missing the necessary platform for the best low-budget indie stuff to see the light of day, and because of this, it\u2019s as though the indie film revolution we\u2019re in the midst of\u2014where people are able to shoot feature films for the cost of a DSLR\u2014isn\u2019t even happening. A tree falling in the woods and whatnot.<\/p>\n

Festivals have been dropping the ball on finding new and interesting talent for a while now. And so we don\u2019t know who our Jim Jarmusch, our Spike Lee, our Richard Linklater, our Kevin Smith is of this new wave\u2014they\u2019re in their rooms, their beautiful little films on their laptops, collecting festival rejections in their inboxes. At one point, I thought Netflix might be the one to step up to the plate and be a showcase, but they\u2019ve clearly veered away from that, their sights entirely set on being a TV network. It seemed like all hope was lost, but as of late, new kids on the block have arrived\u2014small, but full of promise and purpose. It is through one of these such new kids, IndieFlix<\/a>, that you can now watch my films for free, streaming in HD.<\/p>\n

I like these guys a lot. Getting my films on there was a painless and simple process, and they were helpful every step of the way. You can tell they genuinely care about independent film, and just want to get movies out there. Their royalty system is very fair too\u2014basically, for every minute you watch of one of my films, I make a couple cents\u2014and if they have a particularly good month, I made more cents that month. Pretty cool.<\/p>\n

Sign up for a completely free 30-day trial, which you cancel at any time, by clicking the box below. It takes like a minute to signup, and once you do, you can check out Shredder and Rehearsals by clicking the links underneath. Be sure to read their synopses on the site before you watch them, so you know what their basic gist is and whatnot.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n

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\nShredder on IndieFlix<\/a>
\nRehearsals on IndieFlix<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\nHey everybody. It\u2019s your ol\u2019 pal Cody Clarke, editor-in-chief and weekly critic at this here Smug Film. We\u2019ve built a bit of a relationship, y\u2019all and I, over this year-and-a-month that this site\u2019s been in existence. I feel the love from you coming here and reading all our stuff, and I hope you feel the love right back from me. We\u2019ve got a great thing between us, you shadowy blips on the views counter and myself. Sometimes I wish you\u2019d participate more with comments and stuff, but s\u2019all good\u2014you read, you enjoy, and that\u2019s what matters most of all.<\/p>\n

Because<\/i> we don\u2019t exactly talk much\u2014like I said, totally fine, no worries\u2014you might not know that I\u2019m not just<\/i> a pontificator on all things film\u2014I\u2019m a maker of them as well. I\u2019ve made two feature-length films to date\u2014Shredder<\/a> and Rehearsals<\/a>. <\/b>Ya boy Harry Brewis reviewed the former<\/a> on here not too long ago, and ya girl Chloe Pelletier reviewed the latter<\/a>. These films mean a lot to them, and mean a lot to a bunch of other people. But as of yet, they remain unseen by most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,18],"tags":[3272,32,3562,2029,3559,3563,1474,173,53,3561,2743,33,3560,104,185,2777],"class_list":["post-4462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allposts","category-codysessays","tag-chloe-pelletier","tag-cody-clarke","tag-cody-clarke-indieflix","tag-harry-brewis","tag-indieflix","tag-jim-jarmusch","tag-kevin-smith","tag-netflix","tag-rehearsals","tag-rehearsals-indieflix","tag-richard-linklater","tag-shredder","tag-shredder-indieflix","tag-smug-film-2","tag-smugfilm","tag-spike-lee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4462"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4478,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4462\/revisions\/4478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smugfilm.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}