Got an old short film sitting in a drawer somewhere? Dust it off, because short films are gobbled up by thirsty Websites the moment they’re available. You might just get paid. Or you just might find fame and even fortune. The fact is, with the Internet, your chances are better than ever.

None of the sites charge for converting films to streaming media. They do have different missions: some are for helping filmmakers meet the industry, some are just for online entertainment, and a handful of them do both.

"We pay our filmmakers eyeballs," says Robert Moskovits, co-founder and VP at MovieFlix. "Our thing is ‘let’s get this thing seen by as many people as possible.' We get a lot of films from USC and UCLA students and they’re excited that we’ll encode and host the film for free. Often, the film has been sitting around, collecting dust after they’ve already done the festivals and shopped it around. This gives the project new life."

To help the filmmakers, MovieFlix provides links back to the filmmakers’ Websites and forwards all inquiries. They also don’t request exclusive rights, so the filmmaker can remarket the film at any time, anywhere.