The Flip the Script initiative will fund, market and distribute six shorts from emerging directors mentored by an advisory board that includes Lulu Wang, Mj Rodriguez, Blake Griffin, Kendrick Sampson ...

Features might get all the glitzy attention, but short films are the backbone of the cinematic world. From Martin Scorsese (“The Big Shave,” 1967) to Wes Anderson (“Bottle Rocket,” 1994) to ...

EXCLUSIVE: AI studio Asteria in collaboration with Documentary+ has acquired documentary short The Reality of Hope ahead of its world premiere Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. Joe Hunting ...

EXCLUSIVE: Tyler Perry Studios is set to kick off the Dream Collective, a program designed to identify and cultivate the next wave of filmmakers, particularly with underrecognized and underrepresented ...

This year’s International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), taking place in the Dutch city between Nov. 13-23, will open with a short documentary selection as a way of “showcasing the ...

Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser has joined the Oscar-qualifying short documentary “Saving Superman” as an executive producer, revealed to Variety exclusively. “Saving Superman” chronicles the ...

From George Lucas’ “Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138 4EB” and Wes Anderson’s “Bottle Rocket,” to Ava DuVernay’s “Saturday Night Life” and Christopher Nolan’s “Doodlebug,” some of our most successful, ...

A short documentary about a Denton family is among the nominees for the 2025 News & Documentary Emmy Awards. Last year, directors Tanya Selvaratnam and Rose Bush made a short documentary about the ...

This list provides 50 short film prompts across five genres and advises using them as starting points, noting AI tools like Filmora can turn prompts into film drafts.

Tyler Perry Studios is launching the Dream Collective, a new initiative aimed at discovering and nurturing the next generation of filmmakers, particularly those from underrepresented backgrounds. The ...