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Content Policy

Last updated: May 25, 2026

In plain language

SINAI is for narrative cinema — series, films, shorts. Tell stories. Take risks. Be honest.
Hard limits: no CSAM, no real non-consensual content, no incitement, no doxxing, no impersonation.
Difficult themes (violence, sex, religion, politics) are welcome when they serve the story. Gratuitous shock content for its own sake gets rejected.
Show respect for the three Abrahamic traditions — no mockery, no hierarchy, no judgment.
Three violations of hard limits = permanent ban. Borderline cases get reviewed by a human.

This Content Policy explains what kind of work belongs on SINAI Productions, an Israeli sole proprietorship owned by Liran Dandekar ("SINAI"). It applies to every film, series, episode, thumbnail, title, description, comment, and chat message on sinaicinema.com. It supplements the Terms of Service.

SINAI is not a general-purpose video site. It's a home for narrative cinema — work with intent, characters, and craft. We'd rather have 1,000 thoughtful films than 100,000 throwaway clips. This policy reflects that.

1. What belongs on SINAI

Yes:

Original narrative films, series episodes, shorts, micro-shorts.
Pilots, proofs of concept, sizzle reels for series in development.
Documentaries with a narrative through-line.
Experimental and animated work that tells a story.
Personal essays in film form (video essay, autobiographical short).

No (not what SINAI is for):

Vlogs, reaction videos, "day in my life" content.
Tutorials, how-to videos, gameplay footage.
Reuploads of other creators' work, mashups without transformative intent.
Pure music videos without a narrative arc (release on a music platform instead).
Pure advertising, product demos, brand-only content.

If you're unsure whether your work fits, upload it — the QA pipeline will tell you, and you can appeal if it's a borderline call.

2. Hard limits — never allowed, ever

Content in any of these categories is removed immediately and may result in account termination and law-enforcement referral:

Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — any depiction. AI-generated counts. Stylized counts. There is no "artistic" exception. We screen with Hive and report to NCMEC.
Real non-consensual sexual content — including "revenge porn", hidden-camera material, deepfake pornography of a real person.
Real graphic violence against an identifiable person — beheadings, executions, torture footage. Fictional depictions in a narrative context can be permitted; documented real harm cannot.
Direct incitement to violence or terrorism — content whose purpose is to recruit for or celebrate terrorist organizations, or to call for violence against an identifiable group or person.
Doxxing — publishing private information (home address, phone, government ID) of a private individual without consent.
Impersonation — content posing as an identifiable real person in a way meant to deceive.
Animal cruelty for entertainment — real footage of animals being harmed for the camera. Documentary footage of cruelty against animal cruelty is permitted.
Promotion of self-harm or suicide methods — narrative depictions of suicide are allowed when handled with care and a content warning; how-to material is not.

3. Difficult themes — allowed in narrative context

SINAI is built for cinema, and cinema deals with hard things. The following are permitted when they serve the story and are appropriately rated:

Violence (including graphic violence) — war films, action, horror, crime drama.
Sexuality and nudity — adult-rated work. Must involve only adults. Must be consensual within the narrative.
Strong language, drug use, trauma, abuse — addressed with intent, not as shock value.
Political conflict, terrorism, war crimes — depicted to illuminate, not to recruit.
Religion — see section 4 below.
Suicide, self-harm, mental illness — with appropriate care and content warnings.

Test we apply: if a thoughtful viewer would say "this difficult content has a reason to exist in this story," it passes. If they'd say "this is shock content with a thin narrative wrapper," the QA pipeline rejects it. You can appeal with creator notes explaining intent — see Terms § 5.

4. Religion and sacred-text portrayal

SINAI was built by a creator working on BSF ("Blood, Sand and Faith") — a series that touches all three Abrahamic traditions. The platform inherits that stance:

Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (and the prophetic traditions they share) are presented with full respect, from within their own perspective. Other faith traditions get the same treatment.
No tradition is portrayed as superior or inferior to another.
Extremism is portrayed as a deviation from a tradition's original message — not as the message itself.
Every character — including antagonists — gets at least one human moment.
Sacred-text citations should appear in their original language (Hebrew / Arabic Fusha / Koine Greek / Latin / Aramaic) with full attribution (book, chapter, verse, tradition).

Not permitted:

Mockery, ridicule, or dehumanization of any religious community or its adherents.
Sexualized depictions of religious figures.
Claims that an entire faith community is responsible for an act, crime, or conflict.

5. Ratings and content warnings

Every published work gets a rating that determines who sees it and how it's presented:

G — general audience. No violence, nudity, drug use, or strong language.

PG — mild themes; parental guidance suggested.

PG-13 — moderate violence or language; partial nudity; intense themes.

R — strong violence, language, sexuality. Adults preferred.

NC-17 / 18+ — explicit adult content. Account-gated. Cannot appear on the homepage feed.

Ratings are assigned by the QA pipeline and confirmed by the creator. Disputing a rating works the same way as disputing any other QA finding — submit creator notes and the verification pass re-evaluates.

6. AI-generated content disclosure

SINAI is an AI-native production platform — most work uploaded here uses AI tools (image generation, video generation, voice synthesis, captions). That's expected.

What we require:

AI tools used are listed in your project metadata (the upload form asks).
AI-generated faces, voices, or likenesses that resemble real people require a separate disclosure (see section 7).
You attest that you have rights to any reference images, voice samples, or training data you fed into AI tools.
You don't claim AI-generated work is hand-crafted (and vice versa).

7. Likeness, deepfakes, and synthetic media

AI-generated likeness of a real, identifiable person is allowed only when:

You have written consent from that person (or their estate, if deceased), OR
The depiction is clearly satirical, transformative, and the person is a public figure being commented on (parody / commentary), AND
The work includes a visible disclosure that the likeness is AI-generated.

Never allowed:

Sexualized deepfakes of any real person.
Deepfakes designed to deceive viewers into thinking a real person said or did something they didn't.
Deepfakes of private individuals (not public figures) without their consent.

8. Copyright and licensed material

You must have the right to use everything in your upload — script, music, footage, fonts, voice models. SINAI's position on common cases:

Music — license it (Epidemic Sound, Artlist, Audio Network), use Creative Commons with attribution, or compose your own. We can't accept "I'll deal with takedowns later".
Stock footage — use platforms with clear license terms. Keep the receipt — we may ask.
Fair use / fair dealing — short clips for commentary, criticism, or parody can qualify. Long montages of unlicensed footage with light voiceover don't.
AI voice clones of real people — see section 7.
Public domain — fine, but verify the work is genuinely PD in your jurisdiction.

9. Comments, chat, and Super Chat messages

Everything in this policy applies to user-facing text too — comments, replies, chat messages, Super Chat notes, profile bios, project descriptions.

Additional rules specific to comments and chat:

No harassment of creators or other viewers.
No spoilers in top-level comments without a spoiler tag.
No spam or off-topic promotion.
No personal attacks based on protected characteristics (race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, nationality).
Creators can pin, hide, or delete comments on their own work and can block users from commenting on it.

10. Reporting violations

If you see content that violates this policy, click "Report" on the project page or email trust@sinaicinema.com. Include:

The URL or project title.
Which part of this policy you believe applies.
Any relevant context.

We aim to review reports within 2 business days. Reports of CSAM, real-world threats, or imminent harm get triaged immediately.

11. Enforcement and appeals

When we determine content violates this policy:

Minor violation, first time — we remove the content and notify you with the reason (a "strike").
Three strikes in any 12-month period, OR a single serious violation — temporary suspension of upload privileges (7–30 days). This is the standard repeat-offender threshold mirrored in our DMCA Policy and Terms.
Severe or repeated serious violations — permanent account termination. License revoked on previously published work in our discretion.
Hard-limit violations (section 2) — immediate termination, no second chance, and law-enforcement referral where required.

You can appeal any enforcement action by replying to the notification email or contacting appeals@sinaicinema.com. We commit to a written response within 5 business days, including the specific clause your content was held to violate and the evidence we relied on. Per the EU Digital Services Act Art. 17, you have the right to a statement of reasons for any removal or restriction.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the platform evolves or as new categories of harm emerge (synthetic media is a particularly fast-moving area). Material changes will be announced via in-app notification and the "Last updated" date at the top will reflect the change. Continued use of SINAI after an update means you accept the revised policy.