Smash Hits Media Lab
A $200M media production makerspace for Indiana and Alabama — funded through real-world asset tokenization.
$200M
Target build-out, RWA financed
2 States
Indiana + Alabama campuses
1 Roof
Stages, post, gear, fabrication
Local
Talent retained, not exported
The talent is already here. The infrastructure is not.
Across Michiana and the Deep South, the same story repeats. A student finishes a film program in South Bend, Muncie, or Birmingham, shoots one short with borrowed gear, discovers there is no stage to rent, no color bay to finish in, and no rental house within three hours — and buys a one-way ticket to Atlanta.
Smash Hits Media Lab is a direct answer to that leak. Rather than subsidize one more isolated studio, the proposal consolidates every fragmented piece of a production pipeline — stages, grip and lighting inventory, fabrication, post, sound, education, and public-facing retail — into a single campus, and then duplicates it across two states so a crew can move between them on one call sheet.
Both states already reward production spend: Indiana administers a film and media tax credit through the Indiana Destination Development Corporation, and the Alabama Film Office rebates qualified in-state expenditures. What neither state has is the physical plant to capture that spending. This project is that plant.
Read the full thesis on The Project page, or jump straight to tokenomics.
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Every stage, lens, and edit bay in this proposal is financed by the community that will use it.
Six departments. One address.
Each renderings below shows a space the proposal funds. Today, a Midwestern production has to assemble these from five vendors in three cities.
Sound Stages & LED Volume
Two insulated stages with a modular LED volume wall, grid, and drive-in access so a crew can load in a truck and be rolling by noon.
Post-Production Suites
Color bays, edit rooms, ADR and mix booths — the finishing tools that currently force Midwestern projects to ship out of state.
Gear Library & Retail
A rental counter and retail floor for cinema bodies, glass, grip, and lighting, priced so a first feature is not a second mortgage.
Makerspace & Fabrication
Set construction, props, wardrobe, welding, and 3D printing under the same roof as the stage that needs them.
Education & Residencies
Paid apprenticeships, school partnerships, and residency slots aimed squarely at the talent that would otherwise leave.
Screening & Event Hall
A public-facing theater and event space that turns the campus into a destination, not just a work site.
They said the movie business would never come here.Then we bought the building.
This is not a meme with a website attached. It is a construction schedule with a token attached — and the people holding it are the people who will be standing on the stage floor.
OWN THE ROOM
Holders are the constituency the campus is built for.
TWO-STATE CORRIDOR
Indiana to Alabama on one production calendar.
PUBLIC BY DESIGN
Retail, screenings, and tours — not a gated lot.
Check our work
Every structural claim on this site traces back to a public, verifiable source. Open them.
- Indiana Destination Development Corp. — Film & Media Tax CreditIndiana offers a media production tax credit administered by the IDDC.
- Alabama Film Office — Entertainment Industry Incentive ActAlabama rebates a share of qualified production expenditures in-state.
- U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis — Arts & Cultural Production Satellite AccountFederal accounting of arts and cultural output by state.
- National Endowment for the Arts — State Arts ProfilesResearch on creative-economy employment and migration.
- Indiana Arts CommissionState arts funding, regional arts partners, and Michiana grantmaking.
- South Bend – Elkhart Regional PartnershipMichiana regional economic development data and talent-retention strategy.
- Boston Consulting Group — Relevance of On-Chain Asset TokenizationWidely cited projection of tokenized real-world asset market growth.
- U.S. SEC — Crypto Assets investor guidanceRegulatory guidance and investor warnings on digital assets.
Financial disclaimer
Nothing on this website is financial, investment, legal, or tax advice, and nothing here is an offer, solicitation, or recommendation to buy or sell any security or digital asset. $SHML is presented as a community and utility token. Digital assets are volatile and you may lose the entire value of anything you purchase.
Smash Hits Media Lab is a proposal. Renderings are illustrative concept art, not photographs of existing facilities. Figures such as the $200,000,000 target, tokenomics allocations, and roadmap dates are planning targets and are subject to change. Real-world asset tokenization is subject to evolving regulation in every jurisdiction; some features may be unavailable to you based on residency.
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