Lesflicks Is Dreaming Big! Our Time Is Now…

Sunday, 7 August 2022, 6:32 am
Press Release: Lesflicks

WE’RE GROWING… WE’VE GOT BIG PLANS… AND WE’RE INVITING YOU TO JOIN US!

London, UK (6 August 2022) – We’re dreaming of a sapphic utopia where all our energy isn’t spent on saving shows like First Kill and The Wilds, and instead is spent binge-watching authentic content and discussing it with likeminded sapphics.

It is pretty impossible to miss the chaos on social media as yet another sapphic show has received cancellation notices. The community is up in arms – hashtags such as #SaveFirstKill are trending on Twitter and there are plenty of petitions and billboard campaigns springing up. The announcement of HBO Max and Discovery Plus merging; followed by many other news articles about the spend, spend, spend days of streaming coming to an end – it isn’t just sapphic content that is getting cancelled (Batgirl, Black-ish, Charmed, The Good Fight, Legacies, Legends of Tomorrow are all also ending).

CEO & Founder Naomi said “it is hardly surprising that so much content is being cancelled given the rough global economy. We’re heading into recessions and depressions and spending is top of everyone’s agenda. Customers are spending less, and businesses are looking to streamline. With so many streaming platforms we have hit saturation so those that have nothing particularly unique are partnering up to cut costs and reduce competition. How many versions of Netflix do we need after all?! However, niche and genre platforms will always have a strong home as they often have content that is not found elsewhere, and so as the number of platforms streamlines and reduces, platforms like Lesflicks can emerge as a popular choice to fill the clear gap in desired representation. I expect to see more smaller budget productions as these streamers still need a constant collection of content to retain their customers – the reality is that you can create 10 lower budget indie series for the price of one season of Legends of Tomorrow and this is what I think we’re seeing happen. Money is being redistributed and spread more thinly on series that have a broad, wide audience base.”

Is it really a case that there is not a business case for sapphic stories? Netflix have been pushed to explain how a show with more views than Heartstopper got cancelled. The answer was completions - a new metric not previously mentioned. The goalposts keep moving away from sapphic women and towards everyone else. Lesflicks still believes in the sapphic community as an audience, and so is running a campaign to put themselves in a position to support, amplify and create sapphic content.

Lesflicks has been discussing investment for a number of months now, but not been able to identify any investors that we believe have the same ethos, desire and drive that they have. The team strongly believe if they give away ownership to big business, other mainstream platforms or investors outside of our community that they will lose what has made them so successful to date. They also don’t believe their sapphic stories will be safe – especially following so many cuts recently.

What makes Lesflicks unique is that they are building an ecosystem that is fair to both content creators and audiences. They believe it is possible to support everyone – and that this will create a sustainable and plentiful supply chain of quality authentic sapphic stories.

The recent changes in the streaming and entertainment world this month have reinforced the belief that “we are stronger together as a community”, and that the team at Lesflicks need to keep the ownership and decision-making of Lesflicks 100% sapphic.

The ambition is big. Much like their dreams. Naomi dreamed big in March 2019 – and look what she and the team have achieved already! Pre-investment, and with a part-time, volunteer team – they are already a force to be reckoned with. Lesflicks has over 220 titles making them the largest sapphic streaming platform in the world. Their clients are happy as Lesflicks pay them more than other platforms they’re with (Kate Lane’s video sums it up well when it starts with her proclaiming ‘Lesflicks is awesome’). Lesflicks has a list of filmmakers who want their work on their platform (some titles they’re onboarding; with some titles the distributors are not interested, which is disappointing for us and the creators involved) and Lesflicks are also starting to look at creating content (their first project is already underway in post-production through their sister brand SapphicIFF).

Join Lesflicks today in their journey to a sapphic utopia by adding your support to the campaign!

https://www.lesflicks.com/sapphic-utopia/

OUR AIMS AND WHAT THEY MEAN FOR YOU

We have 3 stages to our campaign: Support, Amplify and Create. As we have become well known for with our clients, we want to be completely transparent. These are our plans and what they mean.

MILESTONE 1: £70,000

Lesflicks will move from 100% part time volunteers and interns to a full time paid team supported by volunteers and interns. Increased resource will help improve knowledge of Lesflicks and increase capacity to help us move forward from being ‘the community’s best kept secret’ to becoming a household name.

MILESTONE 2: £100,000

This milestone will create sustainability and ensure our costs are covered for the next 2 years including a marketing and growth budget. Lesflicks will be able to thrive and fast track our growth. We will be able to harness and support the true power of teh sapphic community through our ecosystem including LesflicksVOD and the LesflicksCAN.

Exceeding these two milestones will meet the necessary targets for Lesflicks that will enable and empower us to SUPPORT our clients, you the audience and to remain 100% independent and able to make decisions that we know are right for the wlw community.

MILESTONE 3: £191,000

This milestone will allow us to grow LesflicksVOD, to build up the LesflicksCAN, increase the support for content creators through Sapphic Services and to promote sapphic content that is currently in production or pre-production. We will start to amplify the amazing content you don’t even know exists.

MILESTONE 4: £500,000

This milestone allows us to supercharge our aims to amplify authentic sapphic stories. It will ensure Lesflicks is equipped to raise awareness and strengthen the support we are able to offer sapphic content. We will work with sapphic content creators to ensure that content is distributed effectively and that you the audience is able to find and watch the content being made for you.

Exceeding these two milestones will complete the AMPLIFY phase of our growth and move us into the exciting phase of content creation and content licensing. This is where sh*t gets serious!!!

MILESTONE 5: £1,500,000

This milestone will see Lesflicks starting to create higher budget content. We will work with the community to ensure what we’re making is what you want to see. We’ll look at saving shows that are at risk by focusing our resource on campaigning and proving that we are a valid and worthwhile audience. We will provide a home for quality sapphic content and offer an easy and cost-effective way to reach sapphic audiences increasing profitability and audience viewing numbers organically.

MILESTONE 6: £5,000,000

This milestone allows us to fully implement our sapphic utopia. Exciting! We will be able to create, centralise and secure sapphic content in one easy-to-find and easy-to-access place. We will be the go-to home for sapphic content. A few women have asked if we’re the lesbian Netflix… we’re not there yet but this milestone would definitely get us there!

https://www.lesflicks.com/sapphic-utopia/

Milestone 1 is active and live now!

https://www.lesflicks.com/sapphic-utopia/

Lesflicks are also seeking brand ambassadors around the world

Ambassadors are key to Lesflicks' growth and to creating a sapphic utopia where shows don't get cancelled, are properly promoted, and are easy to watch legally.

Find out more: https://lesflicksvod.com/pages/ambassadors

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