OUR PURPOSE
(Why do we exist?)
Sutudu is the fuel that seeks to keep the lantern of creative freedom lit by empowering and supplying opportunities to drive community and sustainability. In other words, we look to help build and create opportunities in hope that economic sustainability allows for the creatives to continue to contribute to the world.
We fight for the freedom of creative professionals in the independent film, TV, and overall entertainment industry to build together outside of the Hollywood and gatekeepers establishment.
WHAT DO WE DO?
We create, develop, and drive our platforms to empower independent filmmakers and creative artists to seize control of the business, distribution, and success of their content.
What you see to the left are upcoming services and attributes that we believe are crucial to the success to drive sustainability for creative artists. Great ideas and talent need reliable tools and services.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT?
We strive for creative freedom that allows the community to express themselves without restrictions. We do this by creating a new pathway of how business can be done in the creative community; a platform to give the creatives complete control of their content distribution and business.
We believe transparency is the best way to create trust in an industry that suffers from selfish greed and wrongful business ethics. Our open community mindset, using blockchain technology, and embracing NFT technology allow for this to happen.
Our passion and courage come from experience and empathy of what it's not to have a door shut in your face without an explanation.
A brand with a mandate: it is standing up for a group of people short-served or exploited by the establishment for too long. However, this challenger is an agent of change, not just protest. It offers an alternative model for success, often creating "people-powered" solutions with the community's interests at heart.
We are empathetically visionary. We fight for independent filmmakers and creative artists and will never forget their struggle is why we exist. This is the reason we push boundaries, and at times act a little brash to bring about real change in the industry.
WHAT ARE WE LIKE?
(Artist with a mindset of responsibility to the community at scale)
DRAMATIC
DISRUPTER
ENLIGHTENED ZAGGER
FEISTY
UNDERDOG
NEXT
GENERATION
REAL &
HUMAN
PEOPLE'S
CHAMPION
LOCAL HERO
MISSIONARY
DEMOCRATISER
IRREVERENT
MAVERICK
Where Did We Come From?
We’re independent filmmakers, musicians, and creative artists. We’ve lived through the nights of ramen and Red Bull. We’ve battled through the rigors of distribution and been rejected by gatekeepers just “because”. We are empathic to our industry and we want to see positive change for the future that will enable the people we truly care about, the people we love, and the next generations to have control of their careers, opportunities, and life. We don’t want to hear “NO” to our creative thoughts and vision.
It’s this perspective that guides everything we do.
OUR BELIEFS
(Be human and real)
Trust, authenticity, and value propositions is the core to developing communities that will support the long-term vision of Sutudu. The fans and supporters want to see change and measure results using their time, money, experience, and heart. We believe by snapping in a multitude of services, being innovative, showing our leadership of what we are willing to risk to impact industry change, and protecting our community to the best of our ability in serving it in the most non-selfish approach will bring the community closer together.
What we stand for, what we fight for, and "Why" we need to exist to drive change will be the core to how we create supportive communities.
PRE-REGISTRATION
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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
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We fight for the freedom of creative professionals in the independent film, TV, and overall entertainment industry to build together outside of the Hollywood and gatekeepers establishment. We believe that our industry should not be the last to eat, but be as equally important as any other profession. With creativity being so important in today's society, why are talented artists who paid their dues still having a very hard time sustaining a career where as other professions have vast opportunities. We want to be a platform that creates tools, services, and opportunities to drive sustainability.
Although, we have very similar technologies, we believe there are several distinguishing factors that separates us from other marketplaces:
1. It starts with our core values and mindset. That is the foundation that drives all decision making and how we move the platform forward in the future.
2. 100% of the founding team are creative artists. We've been through the all the adversity and have been kicked in the face countless times. We can empathize the problems that artists face.
3. We have an amazing development team where we push boundaries and risks our investments to ensure we are doing everything we can to drive sustainability.
4. Although we don't like to push certain technical aspects that makes us different, but we do have technical features that other marketplaces do not have. One of the biggest distinguishing factor is our patent pending Multi-Royalty smart contract system. It has a lot of complexities and we are patent pending on this technology.
Currently, we are supporting Polygon and Ethereum chains. We plan to support continue to support other chains in the near future.
We want to remain transparent, so, nothing can truly stop someone from selling a counterfeit NFT. Its just like selling markets of any collectable items, as a consumer you have to use your best judgement as to what sellers and NFTs seem legitimate. On Sutudu, collections can be verified and the marketplace is monitored to prevent the selling of counterfeit NFTs. In addition, we plan to implement more verification processes to show authenticity that will create more assurance for the buyers.
No!! NFTs can be videos, gifs, films, music clips, even things like tweets have been sold as NFTs! The limit to what an NFT can be is the limit of your creativity!
LONG-TERM ROADMAP
Here are our LONG milestones for the unpredictable yet exciting venture. The percentage below are indicators to how we will accomplish our stated goals.
This is all about the long-term. We will have short-term road maps for individual projects.
10%
Sutudu NFT Marketplace Launch
The NFT Marketplace is the starting point to activate several purposes.
1. To develop community, opportunities, and talent exposure
2. Activate NFT Licensing for the entertainment industry
3. Case study of the sales and royalty split model to solve financial licensing transparency challenges
4. Onboard major NFT projects that have real utilities behind it
20%
Launch Sutudu Utility Manager
The utility manager will be designed to be extremely simple and effective to redeem tangibles using NFTs. Managing NFT utilities could be difficult if you are not organized, but our utility will keep things organized for the most unorganized personel
30%
Marketplace Exposure Services
As we browse other marketplaces, we as NFT and company investors find it very difficult to find projects to invest in for several reasons and mostly due to the vast amount of projects with a lack of tools to make better decisions. We aim to communicate with the community on needs and look forward to the development of tools that will enable buyers to make better investment decisions.
40%
Crowdfunding services
The ability to raise funds from the community and investors drives opportunities. With opportunities, it delivers many possibilities and leads toward sustainability. The combination of having an NFT marketplace and Crowdfunding both in Crypto and Fiat ($$), allows for so many opportunities for creators do incredible things in the market.
50%
Investment and Grant Services
When there is a healthy community with the economics are working on all ends, investment and grant opportunities arise to continue to energize and grow the industry. It makes sense that we have a service that allows for outside investors and granters opportunities to find compelling projects.
60%
Launch Film Buyer/Seller Marketplace
As founders, our life work has been about films and music. We understand firsthand how difficult it is for filmmakers to succeed. We plan to show our Rolodex of buyers and collaborative trusting distributors to move projects forward and enable the public to see amazing content that is withheld by major establishments.
70%
Blockchain OTT Platform
We have our vision on how creators of content can be paid and it starts with not being greedy. If our other services are succeeding, we can move ahead and build a platform to expose the deserving films and TV shows on the blockchain. We want to reimagine how royalties are distributed, how content is bought, and how to create more opportunities for the filmmakers driving more deal opportunities with other organizations and buyers.
80%
Marketing Agency Services
It is clear that content is king, but if nobody sees it, then what was the point? The hard work and effort would be wasted. Marketing of the content is equally as important as creating the content. We look to build partnerships and agency services to really help projects be exposed for more opportunities.
90%
Procurement Platform For Suppliers
We are probably many years into the company, but we do imagine having a procurement system for the entertainment industry. We aren't sure why that doesn't really exist as compared to other industries, it's massive especially for government contracts. But we look to solve this problem and continue to drive procurement opportunities for suppliers in hope they land large contracts.
100%
Grant Opportunities
We believe in giving back especially if the community was able to drive our success. We don't understand why major companies do not have a large grant system, especially in the entertainment industry. Well, because that is almost non-existent, we want to have a grant system to truly honor projects that deserve financial support.
In Summary
This roadmap is a glimpse of what we imagine on how to drive sustainability for content creators. There are vastly more components to the roadmap that is really difficult to display for the public. It's almost that we need to protect our own intellectual property so we can't reveal everything, but rest assured, we are extremely excited for the future.
There is a major problem going on when it comes to transparency and opportunities in the entertainment industry and we would need to lead and advocate to drive change because nobody else is doing it. We hope that our work will allow other organizations to think differently. We want future parents to say to their children that being in the entertainment industry is a great opportunity and can be financial and as stable as general professions today.
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ABOUT US
We are passionate creative artists involved in Films, Music, Art, Fashion, etc.
We share your thrill in the craft and your frustration with the entertainment industry status quo. We believe in transparency. We believe blockchain technology will solve the transparency issues that plague the industry. Trust is everything to us and we plan to ensure we build platforms that are reliable and trustworthy. We are not perfect, but we strive to be perfect. We were born from your struggle for artistic liberation and the fight for real industry change.
Combined, we have over 30 years of experience in the entertainment business.
Sutudu is Freedom.