Happy Life
Satire, Drama
In a world where husbands are designed to anticipate every need, a woman begins testing her impeccably attentive partner for signs of resistance.
Short films, supported by you.
Short films usually get made only after a grant jury or a studio says yes, which leaves a small number of people deciding what gets to exist at all. We do it the other way round: the film gets made because enough of the people who wanted to see it paid for it.
Funded & completed
The Cage cost about $14,000, all of it donated by people who wanted to see it get made, and it's showing at festivals now.
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In Vain
Psychological body horror · Illahi Rayani
A burnt-out actor surrenders to the beast inside her one more time during a career-defining audition.
Written and directed by Illahi Rayani, starring Rojan Molanian. The script is finished and the test footage is shot. What it needs now is the money to make it.
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Funding figures are indicative and no campaign is open yet.
Upcoming
Closure
Drama
At his mother's funeral, a young Chinese-Canadian man is surprised to see strangers mourning a warm, loving woman, not the Tiger Mom he grew up with.
Memoria
Drama
When a woman living with dementia begins reliving memories of a pivotal summer from her youth, her daughter discovers that the choices buried in her mother's past closely resemble her own life today.
Where it started
Funded & Finished
The Cage
Drama · Raj Bandyopadhyay & Monica Hosseini
The Cage is a 12-minute drama about Nadia, who has just left a controlling relationship and reluctantly signs up for an AI companion app her therapist recommends. Evan, her AI boyfriend, is everything her ex wasn't: patient, supportive, endlessly validating. As she comes to depend on him, it turns into the most sophisticated form of the manipulation she was hoping to avoid.
It cost $14,000 to make and finish, and all of it came from people we asked: friends, family, classmates, cast and crew, a lot of them giving $25 or $50 at a time. Some of what we got wasn't money at all, but gear, locations, and a few things built by hand. Everyone who gave before July 2026 has their name on the finished film.
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