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Film, music, software and games from independent makers. Find the work you've been looking for and couldn't — and know that the people who made it get paid.

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Featured originals

Shakti original

Two Trains to Kyoto

Priya Nair · 2026 · Feature film

Two strangers share a night train and a lie about where they're going. A quiet, funny drama shot in one take per scene.

▶ Watch trailer
Shakti original

Low Tide Recordings

Søren Bech · 2026 · Album + film

Eleven tracks recorded on a Danish coastline over a single winter, with a companion documentary on how each one was made.

▶ Listen to the first single
Shakti original

Orbit Nineteen

Aria Solano · 2026 · Game, early access

A slow-burn orbital mystery you play in twenty-minute shifts. Subscribers get every build before it ships anywhere else.

▶ Play the demo
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⚡Shakti First

Early releases

Makers post their work here first — days or weeks before it lands anywhere else, and never with ads.

Premiering on Shakti

✦Shakti Originals

Funded by subscribers

We finance higher-budget projects makers couldn't risk elsewhere: feature films, full albums, complete games.

Only on Shakti

＋Shakti Uncut

The full version

Extended cuts, session tapes, dev logs and commentary — the whole thing, exactly as the maker intended.

The full cut

Deep-dive into your favourite things. Or discover something new.

Human-curated collections that put the right film, record, app or game in front of you — by form and by topic, chosen by people who care about it.

Film

Features, shorts and documentaries from makers who own their work — with the process, not just the product.

The Weight of SaltDocumentary
Beneath the VeilHorror
Field RecordingsShort

Maker-owned and operated.

Shakti's ownership model lets makers sustain their work financially and take creative risks — without advertisers or profit-driven external stakeholders in the room. Subscribers fund the work directly.

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50/50
Half of every subscription goes to makers — split by what that subscriber actually spent time with, so a niche album isn't subsidising a stadium act.
Owned
Makers hold equity in Shakti. The people who make the work help run the place that carries it.
100%
of rights stay with the maker. Shakti is a home, not a label — sell, screen and ship everywhere else too.

Why Shakti

Great work goes unfound. Great makers go unpaid.

Mainstream streaming is built for hits. If you like what's already huge, you're fine. If you don't — or if you make the things that aren't — the system quietly works against you.

If you're watching, listening, playing

  • You keep getting served the same ten names
  • The film, record or game you'd love exists — and you'll never see it
  • Music lives in one place, film in another, software in a third
  • Ads interrupt the thing you paid for

If you're making it

  • Payouts pool toward whoever is already huge
  • Slow, niche or long work is punished for being slow, niche or long
  • Finished work sits with no route to the people who'd pay for it
  • The platform owns the relationship — you rent it

What Shakti does about it

  • Human-curated collections that surface the work you'd never have found — across film, music, software and games, in one place
  • Half of your subscription goes to the makers you actually spent time with, so a niche record isn't subsidising a stadium act
  • No ads, no engagement bait, no penalty for going long or niche
  • Makers keep their rights and hold equity in the platform that carries them

Why subscribe?

Find what you've been looking for. All of it, in one place.

For $70/year, a Shakti subscription includes:

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No ads, ever

Nothing interrupts the thing you came for.

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Work you won't find elsewhere

Originals, early releases and full cuts across film, music, software and games — curated by people, not popularity.

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Download and enjoy offline

Films, albums and builds on your device, ready when you are.

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Watch, listen and play anytime, anywhere

Unlimited access to the whole library at home or on the go — on your TV, phone, tablet or laptop, or straight from the browser at shakti.com.

For makers

All content deserves an audience.
And a living for the people who make it.

Film makers

Premiere features, shorts and docs to a paying audience the day they're finished. Keep the rights. Sell everywhere else too.

Music makers

Release albums, sessions and the film of how they were made. Subscribers fund the record before the tour.

Software makers

Ship early builds to subscribers who actually pay for independent software. Dev logs and changelogs as first-class content.

Game makers

Early access without the storefront cut or the discount treadmill. Every build, every patch note, in front of people who care.

Shakti Studio

Our production arm helps maker-owners with editing, design, mastering, QA, distribution and merchandise — so the work gets finished, and finished well.

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Shakti is the best place to watch, listen, play and support independent makers. One subscription includes all of Shakti. Cancel anytime.

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