There's a very interesting up-and-coming streaming platform called Loor.tv, slowly growing in the background overshadowed by everything else, but well worth supporting. Their tagline is "TV & Movies unfiltered by Hollywood or church ladies."
Basically, the secular streaming services hate Christians and take the money of subscribers to fund things that we wouldn't want in our homes. On the other hand, Christian movies suck - they're usually badly acted, with shallow plots that are basically "conversion porn", and cannot touch on anything remotely controversial because it would offend someone.
The idea behind Loor.tv is that you subscribe, and are then given a pot of weekly "loot" which you choose to allocate to the upcoming shows you actually want to fund. Once a show is funded, the producer gets paid and the show is available to watch (either immediately or once production is complete).
It's a brilliant model with a lot of potential. However, it is growing slowly. This means that, at present, you don't get your money's worth out of the service - there is not enough content there for it to be good value for money. But there is some good content. There's a horror series about demonic activity, some apologetic documentary / teaching shows, a great show for preschoolers (2 by 2, done by a former member of the Wiggles), gruesome bible stories animated by teddy bears (only one episode up so far), comedy, some arty content (The Psalter) - a whole range. Not a great quantity, but enough to show the potential. Subscribing is an investment in the future of Christian filmmaking.
However to date, they've been a bit over-ambitious in my opinion. The projects have been too large, and too slow to fund through this model as there aren't enough subscribers to have the critical mass for the shows they have attempted - a number have been announced with great enthusiasm only to be abandoned quietly a few months later due to funding coming in too slowly. So the quantity of content has been low. But they've just recently introduced a new category specifically for low-budget films to give new filmmakers a foot in the door, "Fridge Magnet", and this in my opinion is where they will start to really shine.
At present, we've been enjoying as a family a completely ridiculous low-budget animated sitcom in their "Fridge Magnet" section entitled "Fleur de Lis", which is entirely unpredictable. It's a great example of brilliant storytelling - and really crappy artwork, deliberately over-the-top crappy artwork, which doesn't matter in the least as the fact that you want to keep watching it shows how hilarious the story is. It shows that if this writer were given the budget for a proper production, they could make something brilliant. There's also a postapocalyptic scifi show which is 96% funded as I write this, which I am looking forward to seeing - no idea if it's going to be good or cheesy, but it will be good to see another artist having a go. There's also a "What the Church" show, the first two episodes of which are standard over-cringey Christian volunteer films, but the third and fourth are actually quite funny - the writing has improved through the production I think.
Here's a video of the guys behind the service just hanging out and yarning while smoking cigars. They're our kind of people - this just reminds me of hanging out with the men at a BF retreat.
Anyway, if you'd like to risk a few dollars on something that might end up doing something great for the kingdom, or might crash and burn, I'd highly recommend signing up. The more people who sign up, the more content can be funded.
Basically, the secular streaming services hate Christians and take the money of subscribers to fund things that we wouldn't want in our homes. On the other hand, Christian movies suck - they're usually badly acted, with shallow plots that are basically "conversion porn", and cannot touch on anything remotely controversial because it would offend someone.
The idea behind Loor.tv is that you subscribe, and are then given a pot of weekly "loot" which you choose to allocate to the upcoming shows you actually want to fund. Once a show is funded, the producer gets paid and the show is available to watch (either immediately or once production is complete).
It's a brilliant model with a lot of potential. However, it is growing slowly. This means that, at present, you don't get your money's worth out of the service - there is not enough content there for it to be good value for money. But there is some good content. There's a horror series about demonic activity, some apologetic documentary / teaching shows, a great show for preschoolers (2 by 2, done by a former member of the Wiggles), gruesome bible stories animated by teddy bears (only one episode up so far), comedy, some arty content (The Psalter) - a whole range. Not a great quantity, but enough to show the potential. Subscribing is an investment in the future of Christian filmmaking.
However to date, they've been a bit over-ambitious in my opinion. The projects have been too large, and too slow to fund through this model as there aren't enough subscribers to have the critical mass for the shows they have attempted - a number have been announced with great enthusiasm only to be abandoned quietly a few months later due to funding coming in too slowly. So the quantity of content has been low. But they've just recently introduced a new category specifically for low-budget films to give new filmmakers a foot in the door, "Fridge Magnet", and this in my opinion is where they will start to really shine.
Here's a video of the guys behind the service just hanging out and yarning while smoking cigars. They're our kind of people - this just reminds me of hanging out with the men at a BF retreat.
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