SNVRKOTICS Streaming
Independent documentary, funded by its audience.
Documentaries reported from the ground and paid for by the people watching them. No advertisers, no network. Full films on any paid plan, on TV, phone and web.
Included on every paid plan, from Starter at $12 a month.
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Exclusive documentaries
Made or commissioned here, streamed nowhere else.
Every film on SNVRKOTICS Streaming is produced or commissioned by SNVRKOTICS LLC and streams only here. There is no licensed back catalog padding the library and no third-party player between you and the film. When a film is published it appears the same day: the trailer for everyone, the full film for accounts on a plan.
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Your fee directly funds filmmakers
No advertising, no sponsors. The plan is the only money in it.
There is no advertising on Streaming and no sponsor slot, so the subscription is the only revenue there is, and it is what pays for the films. A commissioned filmmaker is paid by the company under a written agreement for the film, not by an advertiser for the audience. When you pay for a plan, you are paying for the next film to exist.
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No corporate censorship
No network notes, no brand-safety review, no advertiser to keep.
A network commissions a film and then edits it for the advertisers it has to keep. There is no network here and there are no advertisers, so there is nobody to soften a film for. What a filmmaker reports is what streams, under the same standards the company publishes for its news title: sourced, attributed, and the subject asked for comment before it runs.
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Watch anywhere: TV, phone and web
The browser, the apps, and your television by AirPlay or casting.
The player is the browser's own, so a film plays wherever a browser does: on the web, in the iOS, Android and desktop apps, and on a television from any of them by AirPlay or casting. The stream is issued for your account when you press play and expires, so a film is never a file sitting on someone's server for the taking.
How the money moves
Three parties. None of them is an advertiser.
You
A plan, from $12 a month. The same plan that runs your catalog, splits and links.
SNVRKOTICS LLC
Commissions films from the plan revenue. Holds the rights it streams. Reviews for law and the standards, not for taste.
The filmmaker
Pitches, is commissioned under a written agreement, and delivers the cut that streams.
- No advertising on any Streaming page
- No sponsor slot, no product placement
- No network notes on a cut
- No licensed catalog, nothing bought in
Standards
What every film is held to
- 01A film is reported, not staged. Scenes are what happened; nobody is paid to say something.
- 02Every claim a film makes about a person or a company is sourced, and the subject is asked for comment before the film is published.
- 03A correction is made on the film's page, dated, and the film is re-cut where the error is in the picture.
- 04A filmmaker's cut is the cut. The company's role after commissioning is legal review and the standards above, nothing editorial.
- 05Nothing in a film is for sale: no product placement, no sponsored segment, no brand integration.
The same rules the company publishes for its news title, applied to a picture. Read them in full at nvr.news/standards.
Watch anywhere
TV, phone and web
Web
Any modern browser, signed in.
iPhone and iPad
The SNVRKOTICS app, or Safari. AirPlay to a TV from either.
Android
The SNVRKOTICS app, or Chrome. Cast to a TV from either.
Desktop
The Mac and Windows app, or any browser.
TV
AirPlay from an Apple device, casting from Android or Chrome, or the TV's own browser.
One account, every screen. The stream is issued for your account when you press play and expires, so nothing is downloaded and nothing is left behind on a shared TV.
Filmmakers
Pitch a film
Say what the film is, what you have already shot or reported, and what you would need to finish it. It is read by the founder. A commission comes back as a written agreement for the film, and the film streams here, in full, for the people whose plans paid for it.
- Reported documentary, any length, any subject the standards allow.
- Your cut is the cut. Legal review and the standards are the only notes.
- Paid from subscriptions, not by an advertiser for the audience.
Questions
- What does a plan actually pay for?
- The films. Streaming carries no advertising and no sponsors, so subscriptions are its only revenue, and commissioned filmmakers are paid by the company from it under a written agreement. Trailers are free for everyone; the full films and the early-access records stream on any paid plan.
- Who decides what gets made?
- The filmmaker pitches, the company commissions, and the filmmaker's cut is the cut. The company's role after commissioning is legal review and the published standards: sourced, attributed, the subject asked for comment. There is no network and no advertiser to soften a film for.
- Can I watch on a television?
- Yes. The player is the browser's own, so it AirPlays from an iPhone, iPad or Mac and casts from Android or Chrome, and a TV's own browser plays it directly. The stream is issued for your account when you press play and expires.
- I make documentaries. How do I get one commissioned?
- Pitch it on this page. Say what the film is, what you have already shot or reported, and what you would need. It is read by the founder, and a commission comes back as a written agreement for the film.