Spout’s partnership with Four Eyed Monsters and YouTube has been a grand success, yielding over 37,000 new members for Spout, and over $37,000 for the film’s creators. Now we’ve launched a similar partnership behind a very different film. Harold Buttleman, Daredevil Stuntman is a comedy about a would-be Evel Kneivel, starring John Hawkes (of Me and You and Everyone We Know and the upcoming Wristcutters: A Love Story), Karen Black and Dan “voice of Homer Simpson” Castellaneta. The film toured the festival circuit and won a number of awards in 2003-2004 (before Hawkes became known for Me and You and Deadwood), but like so many self-produced indies, remained undistributed.

Then, earlier this year its director, Francis Stokes, hit it big on YouTube with the series God, Inc, which is kind of like The Office, except instead of selling paper, everyone’s working for god (there’s an Evan Almighty joke in there somewhere, but I can’t find it). Now Stokes has posted his feature on YouTube, and Spout is giving the filmmaker $1 for every person who signs up for a Spout account by visiting www.spout.com/francisstokes. If you’re a Francis fan, you can go to this page and get a widget to put on your own site or Facebook or MySpace profile to track the tally. And, after you watch the movie (make sure to press “pause” after Francis’ intro to let it load), you can go to its discussion page on Spout and let everyone know what you thought.