Invest in the next wave of heartland cinema.
Planet Heartland is a closed-loop fund and streaming platform for genre cinema. Back films from $25, earn fractional equity, and watch what you funded alongside our curated catalog of heartland classics.
Investment thesis
Heartland-cinema thesis
We invest exclusively in heartland stories — romance, family, faith & inspiration, holiday, feel-good comedy and true stories. A focused slate, a focused audience.
Sub-$8M budgets
Independent heartland cinema's sweet spot. Lower break-evens, faster paths to profitability, and the format that gave us War Room, I Can Only Imagine, and Fireproof.
Streaming integrated
Every funded film gets a slot on Planet Heartland. Investors stream what they backed and earn a share of platform revenue.
The Notebook
A poor young man and a wealthy young woman fall deeply in love in 1940s South Carolina, but social pressures and family opposition threaten to keep them apart. Decades later, an elderly man reads their story aloud from a notebook.
Preview only. No securities are being offered. Terms, IRR targets, and allocations are illustrative and subject to formal offering documents.
What every Planet Heartland deal looks like.
Standardized across the slate so you're not re-reading legalese for every film. Individual campaigns publish full offering circulars at launch.
Own a slice of the story — not just a ticket.
Fractional film investing splits a heartland film's financing into small, regulated equity stakes — so the audience that lines up opening weekend can also own the upside.
What it is
A fractional stake is a small, real ownership slice of a heartland film. Instead of one financier writing a $1M check, hundreds of fans each take a piece — from $25 up. You're on the cap table, not a tip jar.
How it works
Pick a film, pick your stake. If the campaign hits its goal, your pledge converts into fractional equity and the cameras roll. If it doesn't, you owe nothing. When the film earns, you earn pro-rata for the life of the title.
Why it's legal
Every heartland offering runs through our regulated fractionalization partner under SEC Regulation Crowdfunding. KYC, escrow, disclosures and quarterly statements — the same investor protections as any regulated securities offering.
Investing in film carries real risk. Only invest what you're comfortable losing. See our risk disclosure for full details.
Pick a stake. See what a modest hit looks like.
Heartland cinema has the best ROI profile in cinema — I Can Only Imagine, War Room, The Blind Side all returned hundreds to one. This is the modest case: festival run, streaming deal, regional theatrical. The full model with downside lives below.
Every film becomes its own economic system.
Behind every pledge is a two-layer framework — one built for the audience, one built for the system. Together they turn a heartland film into a structured, participatory asset.
All-or-nothing financing
A project only activates once it's fully funded. No partial budgets, no half-shot productions, no capital deployed until the full stack is in place.
Non-speculative & non-tradable
Your participation is tied to a specific film's real-world performance — not a secondary market. No day-trading, no flipping, no speculation.
Compliant by design
Every offering is structured upfront and managed by our regulated fractionalization partners. Transparent terms, defined allocations, jurisdictional coverage.
Closed-loop economics
Revenue from streaming, licensing, and distribution flows back through the Planet Heartland platform to participants — for the entire lifecycle of the film.
A $1.2M heartland film, 24,000 backers, $50 a REEL.
Instead of one financier writing the check, the budget is distributed across thousands of heartland fans. Once the campaign is fully funded, production begins immediately and distribution on Planet Heartland is guaranteed. Revenue from streaming, licensing and events flows back through the platform to participants.
Illustrative example. Actual budgets, REEL prices and allocations vary per offering and are disclosed upfront.
What could a stake return?
A rough model based on typical independent heartland cinema economics. Move the sliders to see how the math changes — illustration only, not a projection.
Three pillars. Stacked, they cover the budget.
No single source does it alone. Tax credits, streaming licensing and theatrical/MGs each cover roughly a third — combined, the film hits breakeven before release.
Produced in jurisdictions offering 25–40% production tax credits and rebates. Government incentives that directly reduce the recoupable budget.
Planet Heartland's heartland streaming platform pays out per region. Licensing fees lock in another 30-40% of the budget through guaranteed distribution.
Pre-negotiated genre theatrical windows and minimum guarantees in non-streaming territories lock in the final ~30% — contracted in advance, not speculated.
How a small pledge becomes a real ownership stake.
Every backer walks the same five steps. No middlemen pocketing your money, no perks-only "tip jar" — a regulated path from pledge to equity to payout in heartland cinema's most underfunded corners.
- STEP 01
You pledge
From $25. No money moves yet — your card is authorized, not charged.
- STEP 02
Held in escrow
Pledges held in a regulated escrow account until the campaign closes.
- STEP 03
Goal hit
If the heartland film closes funded, your pledge clears. If not, $0 charged.
- STEP 04
Equity issued
You're on the cap table — a real fractional security, not a perk.
- STEP 05
Stream + earn
Watch on Planet Heartland, get quarterly statements, share in revenue.
The slate is already being built.
Before the first dollar opens, our filmmaker council is deep into vetting, and conversations are open with the genre distributors and sales agents that matter.
Logos shown for illustrative pipeline conversations. No partnership or distribution agreement is implied prior to formal announcement.
The questions every investor asks.
If yours isn't here, email invest@planetheartland.com. Tyler reads every message personally.
Built within the rules — not around them.
Planet Heartland operates a closed-loop investment platform under U.S. crowdfunding frameworks (Reg CF & Reg A+), with all transactions cleared through a FINRA-registered broker-dealer partner. Funds are held in escrow and only released when a campaign hits its goal.
SEC-recognized crowdfunding exemptions for retail investors.
All payments processed through a licensed broker-dealer.
Pledges held in escrow; charged only if the film closes its round.
Fractional units are compliant equity — not securities tokens or NFTs.
The slate opens Spring 2027.
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