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FILMMAKERS CAN EARN MONEY when their films play on Hustlefilms.com. Armand Lucas of HustleFilms is offering filmmakers 10 to 20 cents-per-view to play their shorts on his site as part of “premiere weekends.”

Thereafter, Hustlefilms will continue to pay the filmmaker at a lower rate for as long as he chooses, for up to a year.

Three shorts launched last month: Kenny Austin’s dark drama “Intervention” and Alarich Rocha’s “Circle Drive;” Arie Hovenkamp’s “Summon Lovin’” about a frustrated young man turning to the supernatural to improve his love life, debuted last week.

On Feb. 19, the site will premiere Joe Van Auken’s period war film “1916.”

Lucas started HustleFilms in 2008 as an alternative to ad-supported Revver.com.

“I got tired of getting emails from film festivals that were more interested in collecting submission fees than promoting filmmakers’ works,” he says.

Lucas holds regular short film competitions to choose the films to feature in premiere weekends. HustleFilms also promotes live hip-hop events and competitions. See hustlefilms.com.

Nathan Adloff

ACTOR/DIRECTOR NATHAN ADLOFF is in preproduction on “When I’m Alone,” a psychological thriller about a pregnant woman distraught over her husband’s sexual attraction to other men, who “takes measures into her own hands.”

Adloff, who acted in films, including “The Last Rites of Joe May” and “Hannah Takes the Stairs” and directed several shorts, is making his feature directorial debut.

Script is by fellow actor Danny Rhodes (“Hohokam”). Production begins Feb. 20.

John Bukaty in “100 Paintings Ago”

J.R. FLEMING followed Colorado live painter John Bukaty on a three-month journey across India, exploring the nation’s culture and cuisine, and making art, for the documentary “100 Paintings Ago.”

Fleming is in postproduction and seeking an animator to create sequences for the film. Bukaty’s paintings show Feb. 5, 6-11 p.m. at Crossroads Arts District, 1830 Locust in Kansas City, Missouri. See 100paintingsago.com.

Daniel Baldwin

DAVID McELROY of Methodical Productions is in production on “The Removed,” a thriller featuring Daniel Baldwin and Alja Jackson about medical experiment volunteers trapped in a deserted hospital, shooting here through February.

A Columbia College grad based in L.A., McElroy is a former assistant at Hyde Park Entertainment and coordinator at Auer Films and Strom Magallon Entertainment. Marc Menet, co-DP of Sedgwick Productions’ Cubs documentary “We Believe,” is producing. See methodicalproductions.com.

Sharokina Hasso

ACTRESS SHAROKINA HASSO, who since 1999 has hosted the weekly Ch. 25 cable series, “Assyrians Around the World,” has launched the 24/7 subscription-based internet protocol TV station HBtv.

The station carries self-produced programming as well as syndicated shows from across the Middle East, and broadcasts in English, Arabic and Assyrian. See htbtv.biz.

WERNER KRIEGLSTEIN of Vision Media is producing the feature “Unfinished Business – A Ponzi Scheme,” with plans to adapt the film into a stage production. It’s about a man who discovers that his new wife’s late first husband ran a pyramid scheme. Shoot is February-March in and around Wheeling. Email krieglsteinw@hotmail.com..

Ed M. Koziarski is co-director of the feature film “The First Breath of Tengan Rei”. Email: