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Cinematic shorts & mini-drama.

Stories built to be watched in one sitting — or binged episode by episode.

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Who this is for

Brands and studios who want a story with an actual arc, not a fifteen-second hook — a short film that earns attention rather than interrupting for it.

Also anyone eyeing the mini-drama format: a serialized story released in short vertical episodes, built to be tested before it's scaled into a season.

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Two formats, one pipeline

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Cinematic short

A single, self-contained story — usually one to four minutes, landscape, built with the pacing and craft of a film rather than an advert. One character arc, one resolution, one deliverable.

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Mini-drama

The same craft, serialized — short vertical episodes released in sequence, each one written to end on a reason to watch the next. The format that's driving most of the growth in mobile-first video right now, and one AI production is naturally suited to, because a season's worth of episodes no longer means a season's worth of shoot days.

One character, one world,
as many episodes as the story needs.
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Where the consistency already exists

A mini-drama lives or dies on whether the lead character looks like themselves in episode forty the way they did in episode one. That's not a new problem for this studio — it's the same discipline already proven on a 40-plus episode kids' series, where the same characters had to hold their look, voice and personality across an entire run.

The same character-consistency pipeline that made that series work is what a mini-drama needs, just pointed at a different audience and a different tone.

Serialized character consistencySerialized cast
Cinematic pacingCinematic pacing
Story-first productionStory-first
Character-driven worldCharacter-driven
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What actually drives the price

Same rule as everything else on this site: price is never tied to which tool made the pixels. It's tied to what's being asked for.

For a cinematic short, that means runtime, number of scenes, and whether it's landscape only or delivered in a vertical cut as well. For a mini-drama, it means episode count, episode length, how many characters need to stay consistent across the run, and how many revision rounds are built in. A single pilot episode is priced very differently from a committed twenty-episode season — which is exactly why a pilot is the recommended way to start.

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Questions

A cinematic short is one self-contained story, usually one to four minutes, built like a film rather than an ad. A mini-drama is a serialized version of the same craft — short episodes released in sequence, each one built to earn the next.

No. Come with a brief idea, a character, or a full script — whichever you have. I'll shape it into a workable story, storyboard it, and build out episode arcs and cliffhangers if it's a series. The creative direction stays yours; turning it into a finished film is mine.

Yes, and it's the recommended path. A pilot episode proves the character, the tone and the format before a season-length commitment is made — the same logic as a concept film, applied to a series.

Both. Mini-drama episodes are typically vertical 9:16 for mobile platforms; cinematic shorts are usually landscape. The pipeline handles either, and a project can be delivered in both formats if it needs to live in more than one place.

Got a story to tell?

One short, or a whole season — send the idea and I'll tell you honestly what it takes to make it.