Inspire Film: a virtual cinema for transformational documentaries
A React and Supabase streaming platform with adaptive video, live screening rooms and recommended guided experiences that continue the work after each film ends.
The product problem
Inspire Film streams a curated catalogue of documentaries featuring leading experts in personal growth. Watching is only the start: the product needs to help a viewer act on what they saw. That means connecting each film to guided exercises, courses and live events, and recommending a sensible next step. A standard video library would stop at playback and leave the rest of the experience outside the product.
The delivered scope
The platform is a React and TypeScript application on Supabase and PostgreSQL. Films and course videos stream through Bunny Stream with adaptive playback and captions. After a film, a short questionnaire about the viewer's challenge and goal drives recommendations of guided audio, video or text experiences. A virtual cinema runs live screenings and events on LiveKit, alongside memberships, Stripe checkout and an admin area.
One experience player for solo and live use
Guided experiences can be taken alone or run by a host for a whole room in the virtual cinema. Rather than build a second player, the host-led mode adds one fact to the existing model: the host decides which step the room is on. Each member still answers in their own session. For a similar build, extending one well-tested flow is usually safer than maintaining two parallel versions of it.
What shipped
A virtual cinema platform combining adaptive film streaming, live screening rooms and recommended guided experiences, with memberships and payments built in.
Visit the project ↗Industry scopes for a new US project
Film distributor screener portals
For US film distributors sharing approved screeners with named rights buyers, with viewing windows and a separate rights-enquiry handoff.
Film distributor screener portals: scope and discovery questions →Media-localization review portals
For US media-localization teams reviewing a caption or subtitle file against a named media version, then handing an approved release to a publisher.
Media-localization review portals: scope and discovery questions →Pensacola, Florida · Sports-club video review libraries
For Pensacola sports clubs building reviewed video libraries with edition-specific notes, deliberate team access and clear playback context.
Pensacola, Florida · Sports-club video review libraries: scope and discovery questions →Billings, Montana · Film-festival jury screening portals
For Billings film-festival teams connecting approved screening editions, individual juror notes and deliberate private viewing access.
Billings, Montana · Film-festival jury screening portals: scope and discovery questions →Topeka, Kansas · Association member video meetings
For Topeka associations planning member video meetings with explicit host controls, question handling and replay publication rules.
Topeka, Kansas · Association member video meetings: scope and discovery questions →Asheville, North Carolina · Virtual film festival platforms
For Asheville film-festival teams connecting a digital program to authorized live screening rooms and an understandable audience journey.
Asheville, North Carolina · Virtual film festival platforms: scope and discovery questions →Honolulu, Hawaii · Guided multimedia experience players
For Honolulu documentary and learning teams using one guided-experience model for individual participation and host-led sessions.
Honolulu, Hawaii · Guided multimedia experience players: scope and discovery questions →Des Moines, Iowa · Virtual-cinema membership products
For Des Moines documentary-platform teams connecting membership changes to an understandable film-access journey.
Des Moines, Iowa · Virtual-cinema membership products: scope and discovery questions →Miami, Florida · Documentary platform content operations
For Miami documentary-platform teams coordinating film assets, captions, guided experiences and screening publication.
Miami, Florida · Documentary platform content operations: scope and discovery questions →Florida · Documentary and virtual-cinema platforms
For Florida documentary and membership teams combining an on-demand film catalogue, guided experiences and hosted screening rooms.
Florida · Documentary and virtual-cinema platforms: scope and discovery questions →
Nordic industry services
Service scopes for teams serving Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland, grounded in published work and proposed first-release checks.