For filmmakers
We publish a small number of films.
Ceylo exists for Sri Lankan storytelling — independent features, short films, documentaries, and the teledrama tradition they grew out of — reaching the island and the diaspora worldwide on the same night. If your film belongs there, we want to see it.
Apply to bring your filmHow it works
- 01
Apply
Tell us about your film and your rights to it. Three links, no uploads yet.
- 02
A person reads it
Every application is read in full by a human — no automated queue, no scoring model.
- 03
Upload & publish
If it's a fit, you'll get a Studio account to upload your film and its details. We handle QA and publishing.
- 04
Watch it travel
Honest numbers — which countries watched, how many finished it — and a statement if you're on rev share.
Ways in
We set every price from a published rate card — there is nothing to negotiate on the Featured or rev-share tracks.
Featured License
$0
Chosen by us, for the audience and the credit. No paperwork, nothing to track — your name, your film, and people who will actually watch it.
Selection is by merit — the same bar as every other track.
Transactional Rev Share
50%
You keep 50% of every rental and purchase — no deductions, no fees. We absorb payment processing and chargebacks.
Monthly statements, quarterly payouts, $50 minimum — that floor protects you from dribble payments, and a balance under it always carries forward.
Flat License
Negotiated
For finished features and titles held by a distributor. Terms discussed directly, outside the standard rate card.
Revenue share is calculated only from what a viewer actually pays to rent or buy your film — never from subscription watch-time. A distributor typically keeps 75–90% after expenses; we take nothing off the top and we absorb the payment fees.
Runway
Fund your film before it's finished
Runway is our crowdfunding track: publish a pilot, set a goal, and the people who watch it can greenlight the rest of the film. Nobody is charged unless the goal is hit, and the finished film premieres right where your pilot found its audience.
You keep copyright, always. It's the same application and the same Studio account as the tracks above — a Runway campaign is something an approved filmmaker can open, not a separate program to apply to.
- Backers pay nothing unless your film is funded
- Free cancellation any time before the campaign closes
- The finished film premieres to the audience who funded it
A person watches every submission in full
Once you're in, your film is prepared for streaming, quality-checked, and published into the same catalogue every member browses — no separate "partner" shelf, no watermark, no second class.