The Filmmaker Behind the Code

Skrean is a one-man operation. Built, coded, curated, repaired, fed, and kept alive by filmmaker Frankie Doguet.

I shot my first film at eight years old. Cannibal Hotel. My parents' wedding Super8, family and friends as cast, ketchup as blood.

More than twenty years of commercial and corporate film followed. The kind that sharpens craft, pays (barely) bills, and slowly starves the part of you that wanted to make real cinema in the first place. Carpenter VHS rentals, Raimi on late-night satellite, Hong Kong tapes smuggled back from Paris. All of it sitting on a shelf while I optimized B-roll for LinkedIn algorithms.

Skrean is that hunger, built into a platform. Line by line. Because cinema deserves better than synthetic taste and algorithmic sludge.

Why Build It

Skrean was first built as a home for a film I wrote and have been developing: The Edge. A place where the film could live outside the usual machinery. But the more I built it, the more it became something of its own: a digital grindhouse with a pulse, a purpose, and teeth.

Every line of code serves the same idea. Curation over algorithm. Cinema treated like cinema, not inventory. A platform built by someone who actually watches the films.

When the financing moved slower than expected, Skrean became the plan. Every Patron and donor keeps the servers running, pays for storage and bandwidth, and contributes directly to The Edge getting made. Their names will be in the credits. They will have access to the film when it exists. That was not part of the original plan. It became the best part of it.

Backing a crowdfunding campaign means waiting on something that does not exist yet. Supporting Skrean means keeping a live platform running and helping a real film get made. The difference is not small.