01Sat 12 Dec 2026
Sci-fi horror
Premise
Twelve short films in twelve months, every one a different genre, all of them made by the same seven people in and around St. Louis. Practical effects, borrowed locations, an original score. The scripts and the shot plans are written by an AI; the krewe shoots them. The budget is visible on purpose.
Second Saturday of every month · First bulb 12 December 2026
Every genre gets the same treatment — campy, handmade, funny where it fits. A romcom shot like a creature feature is the joke, and everyone is in on it. The tone is the constant. The genre is the variable. The bar under each film is where its script has got to.
Getting seven people in one place on one day is the expensive part, and it costs the same whether we shoot one film or three. So we shoot three at a time, four weekends a year, with scripts written in advance to share a location and a cast.
Every film lands on the second Saturday of the month, scheduled well in advance from a finished file. Nothing goes up the week it was cut, so a rained-out shoot day costs a scene instead of a release date.
Practical effects, real locations, a score played by hand. Nothing gets fixed later that a better idea would have solved, and nothing pretends to have cost more than it did.
So nobody says yes to an unknown. You get the date, the address and this schedule weeks ahead, not the night before. If any of it changes, you hear about it from us first.
If you can only do half a day, say so and we'll schedule your scenes into it. That's a normal thing to ask for, not a problem.
The whole commitment is four weekends a year plus a table read before each one — about eight days across twelve months. Everything else happens in the edit. Tell us what you want to do and which weekends you can make. You don't have to know us — a gateway is the way in, and that is the point of the name. Nobody is paid up front; if the channel ever earns, it splits by who did what on each film.
Block 01 shoots in October. Tick anything you can cover and it comes through with your sign-up above.
The channel goes live with Film 01 on Saturday 12 December 2026, and a new film lands the second Saturday of every month after that.