Raindance Releasing launched with 20 founding films. Scotflix announced. Two platforms built in weeks, not years, both with zero streaming costs and full filmmaker control of their IP, audience data, and revenue. Here is June on the Hiway.

Scotflix, a new Scottish streaming platform, launches September 2026 at the Scottish Screenwriters Festival. Powered by Hiway. Creators keep the IP, the audience and the money.

The 2026 Raindance Film Festival opens this week. The year-round streaming home behind it has been open for a month. Both are powered by the same mission: bringing independence back to independent filmmakers.

The 2026 Raindance Film Festival runs 18 to 28 June in London. The UK's largest independent film festival, BAFTA and BIFA qualifying, and the must-attend event in the indie film calendar. Hiway is proud to be the technology partner.

Four films. Six weeks. All made by directors who built their audiences online first. Audience-first filmmaking just put up box office numbers the industry has spent ten years calling theoretical.

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Eleven days on the Croisette. One platform debut. One streaming partnership that did not exist in our industry before this month.

The UK's largest independent film festival becomes the first major festival to run its own OTT platform on Hiway infrastructure. And the filmmakers are the real winners.

CDN costs, transcode farms, metadata delivery, payment reconciliation across a dozen portals. The hidden cost of every streaming deal, and the infrastructure that ends it.

The Cannes film market runs on gut instinct and broken links. How distribution technology is changing what information buyers and filmmakers have at the point of acquisition. (