AI Short Film Generator

Direct a Short Film Shot by Shot Without a Crew

Cast, script, storyboard, shots and subtitles for a single vertical film — and every shot stays yours to rewrite, so a piece you do not like is a shot you fix, not a roll of the dice.

Start with a sentence. The cast and the script cost you nothing to see.

Secret Heiress vertical drama poster — They laughed at where she came from

Secret Heiress

Sweet Obsession vertical drama poster — He shouldn't want her this much

Sweet Obsession

The Other Woman vertical drama poster — Two women, one man, one of them doesn't know

The Other Woman

Settling Scores vertical drama poster — She kept the receipts

Settling Scores

Leading Lady vertical drama poster — She stopped asking permission

Leading Lady

Supernatural vertical drama poster — The world is bigger than she was told

Supernatural

Six looks built for vertical — the same ones that carry short drama on TikTok, Reels and the drama apps. Pick one and it locks the colour grade and art direction for the whole film.

A short film or a series — decide this first

Both come out of the same production pipeline here, but they are planned differently from the first question onward. This is the honest comparison, including what each one costs.

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A short film

One self-contained piece, around two minutes, that has to land its ending inside its own runtime.

You plan
One premise and the ending it is walking toward.
You cast
Only the characters this single story needs.
You spend
One episode's worth of production, once.
It suits
Testing a concept, a portfolio piece, a one-off post.
Start a short film →

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A serialized run

Many episodes of that same length, planned together so each one leaves the audience owed something.

You plan
A whole season outline: hooks, cliffhangers, escalation, paywall.
You cast
A cast that has to survive dozens of episodes without drifting.
You spend
That production cost per episode — season length is the budget call.
It suits
Building an audience that comes back for episode two.
Plan a season instead →

From a sentence to a finished film

Five stages, and you can stop and change things at every one of them.

1

The premise

One sentence. A few questions turn it into a premise with an ending worth reaching.

2

The cast

Every character who speaks gets a locked appearance and their own voice.

3

The script

Scene by scene, in a shootable format: action beats, dialogue with delivery notes, inner monologue.

4

The storyboard

Each scene becomes shots with a camera move, a performance note and its lines — every one editable.

5

The film

Shots are produced and composed into a subtitled vertical film, delivered without a watermark.

You direct it, not just prompt it

The difference between a film and a lucky clip is what happens when one shot is wrong.

Rewrite one shot, not the film

A shot you do not like is a shot you rewrite — its camera move, its performance, its line, its duration — and regenerate on its own. Nothing else in the film is touched.

The frame is decided before the shot is produced

Each shot starts from a keyframe image, so you can see what a shot will look like before spending video credits on it, and change it if it is wrong.

You pay for footage, not attempts

Credits are deducted when a job starts and returned automatically if it fails. Recomposing the finished film costs nothing.

Subtitles match what you wrote

Subtitles come from your written lines rather than a transcription of the audio, so names and invented words are not guessed at.

A storyboard keyframe from a drama series — two men in dark coats hauling a wrapped bundle across a wet ship deck at night
A shot's keyframe, approved before any video credits are spent on it.

Pick a look and the whole film keeps it

The style you choose is not a filter applied at the end — it is written into the art direction every shot is generated from.

Colour grade

One grade for the whole piece, so shot four does not arrive warmer than shot three.

Wardrobe register

What this world's clothes are made of and what rank looks like in it — no era or culture wandering in.

Location lighting

A location is designed once and re-lit for day, dusk or night rather than rebuilt per shot.

Faces

Everyone who speaks is designed up front and reused, so a character survives the cut list.

If a single film is not what you need

Turn It Into a Series

The full vertical drama pipeline

Start From the Script

Shootable scenes, beats and dialogue

Make a Single Short Video

TikTok, Shorts & Reels in one pass

Not Sure Which One You Need?

A short read on films versus seasons

What One Film Costs

Priced before you commit to shots

Before you make your first film

Six things worth knowing, in the order people usually ask them.

What does the AI short film generator make?

A single vertical short film — currently around two minutes — with its own cast, script, storyboard, produced shots, voices and burned-in subtitles. It is the same production pipeline used for serialized drama, run for one piece instead of a season.

Is it free to try?

You can go a long way in without paying: the premise, the cast design and the full script are all on your starting credits. The moment that actually draws down a balance is producing shots, and by then you have already seen who is in the film and what they say.

Should I make a short film or start a series?

Make the film if the idea resolves — if there is an ending it is walking toward and the piece is over when it arrives. Start a series if the interesting part is what happens next, because a season is planned around leaving the audience owed something at the end of every episode. The film is also the cheaper way to find out whether the premise holds an audience at all.

Can I direct individual shots?

Yes — that is the main reason to use this rather than a one-prompt video tool. Every shot has its own camera move, performance note, lines and duration, and you can edit any of them, add a cut, delete a segment, reorder, or regenerate a single shot without re-rolling the film.

Is it vertical or landscape?

Vertical, 9:16 — the format short drama apps, TikTok, Reels and Shorts are built around. If you need a landscape explainer or a talking-head piece instead, the instant video templates are the better fit.

Can I enter the result in a film competition or festival?

You own what you make, so where you submit it is up to you. Competitions set their own rules about AI-generated work and about disclosure — check the specific rules before you enter, because they differ a lot and change often.

Make your short film

One sentence gets you a cast and a script. Produce the shots once you like what you have read.

Make My Short Film — Free