What started out as as trend in Asia has spread in a big way to Europe, the U.S. and the rest of the world. Microdramas became all the rave last year and the global market is expected to make billions of dollars from the medium for years to come – estimates predict annual revenues will come in at…

Meyer Levinson-Blount is already having an impactful new year. The 24-year-old New York native, now a decade-long resident of Israel, has finished up film school at Tel Aviv University, created his first short film, won a silver medal for narrative film at the competitive Student Academy Awards for…

Sometimes inspiration can come from the most unlikely of places. In the case of the Oscar-nominated multihyphenate filmmaker Sam Davis, motivation came from an old Russian short story and the social media juggernauts Instagram and TikTok. Davis's short film, The Singers, based on the Ivan Turgenev…

EXCLUSIVE: French microdrama platform Shorts has teamed with L.A.’s Fumero Films for 40 vertical video projects for 2026. Fumero’s bosses, Adriana Santos and Alejandro Fumero, claim the deal is one of the largest ever international slate orders in the emerging microdrama industry to…

The documentary short The Hemingway captures co-director Patrick Sean O'Brien's life with ALS. O'Brien reached out to longtime collaborator Evan Mathis with a script asking for help bringing it to fruition. The pair spoke with Deadline's Matt Carey at Contenders Documentary about their short, and…

Welcome to this edition of Deadline’s video series, The Back/Story, which today features a close up look at the acclaimed live action short, elle/elle. By clicking the link above I invite you to join me and the key figures from the film including…

And they’re off. Awards season just got entirely official with the revealing of shortlists for the 97th Oscars in 10 categories today. See the lists from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences below. Fifteen movies each are moving forward in the contests for International Feature…

EXCLUSIVE: Filmmaker Destin Daniel Cretton has boarded In the Garden of Tulips, an Oscar-qualified live-action short written by and starring Ava Lalezarzadeh, as executive producer. The project reunites Cretton with director Julia Elihu, with whom he initially connected nearly a decade ago as…

When you make as many shows as Taylor Sheridan, everybody pitches in. Above, watch a clip from the short film The Writer, featuring a scene between Jefferson White (he plays Jimmy Hurdstom in Yellowstone) and Neal McDonough (he plays the nasty Cal Thresher in Tulsa King, and a much nastier land thief…

EXCLUSIVE: Antigravity Academy, the production company of Oscar-nominated filmmaker Carlos López Estrada, has partnered with Dolby Laboratories to launch a new studio, designed to amplify the voices of emerging filmmakers. Powered by Dolby Creator Lab, Antigravity’s Short Film Studio will…

Michael Gandolfini's star rose sharply with his appearance in 2021 The Sopranos prequel The Many Saints of Newark as a young Tony Soprano, the fictitious crime boss immortalized by his late father James Gandolfini. The role saw him splashed across the culture and entertainment pages at home and…

EXCLUSIVE: Patton Oswalt has joined Oscar-qualified short film Sardinia as executive producer, along with his wife, actress Meredith Salenger (Star Wars: The Clone Wars, The Journey of Natty Gann). The dark satirical short, written and directed by Paul Kowalski (Paper Tiger), stars Philip…