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@catefogarty Co-Founder. @chrissie_deguzman Co-Founder.
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Join us on Sunday October 25th of TRC Shorts Fest for Panel 2: Paving Your Own Path from 3:30pm-4:30pm✨🤩
Featuring:
@artakpictures
@latinadirector @ladirectorslab
@vertical.sunsets

TRC Shorts Fest is happening October 24th and 25th at the Glendale LOOK Dine-in Cinemas.
Tickets, day passes, and all access are available NOW (linked in bio)🎟️

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Happy Sunday Funday Fam! What’s your plans day? Be safe out there & send that word of encouragement & make someone’s day.

#goodvibes #sunday #blessings #perseverance #grateful

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🎬The Reel Champions Shorts Fest
Sunday Schedule of Events 🎞️

Make sure to stick around for our Awards Ceremony on Sunday night - free to attend!
Then join everyone afterwards at the LOOK Lounge bar for drinks, mingling and celebrating short films made by non-binary and female filmmakers🥳🥂

All access passes, day passes, panel and block tickets available to purchase on our site🎟️ (link in bio)
🎟️🎬📽️ www.thereelchamps.com/trc-shorts-fest

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It was great to see @thelillaura and @claytonfarris again - we worked on @jessicaredish 's mini-movie musical, EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR a few years back. Reunited today at the first Long Beach Film Festival where Clayton was also a featured speaker.
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#actor #filmproduction #musicaltheatre #filmfestival #theresabearinyourneighborhood

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July is officially here, and while everyone else is busy figuring out the second half of the year, I’m serving the only breakdown that actually matters. 🍿✨
🥳 Big milestone alert: Today marks exactly ONE YEAR since I launched @verticalviewweekly! Just me, my chaotic screen time, and a mission to find the actual elite shows out there. 💅 a massive thank you to everyone binging right along with me. You make the endless scrolling entirely worth it! 🖤
To celebrate, I’m wrapping up Q2 2026 with my definitive Top 10 vertical dramas that completely dominated my feed. 🎬🔥 If you saved my Top 10 list from the 1st quarter, get ready, because this batch brought some serious game. 😉
🏆 The Q2 2026 Rankings (10 down to 1)
Swipe through the carousel to see who made the cut:
⚽ 10: Offside: My Fake Marriage with the Soccer Superstar | @dramawave_official @tess.din @jared.staub @enzymefilms @thepallier
🏈 9: The Price of Letting Go | @dreameshort @chena_verony @markhvmc @gingerbreadmanpic
🩰 8: Mafia’s Caged Swan | @dramapopsapp @kyrawisely @aaroneoberst @palmfilm.co @can__ozen
🏴‍☠️ 7: Kiss Of The Pirate King | @my_drama_series @emmareinagel @nick.ritacco
🥀 6: My Dark Romeo | @reelshortapp @gabriellefaithbrown @j.j.michaels
💼 5: The Boss’s Forbidden Affair with Her Subordinate | @dramashorts_official @jillian_tremaine @ryanrayvincent @vertical.sunsets @catefogarty
👀 4: Stolen Desire | @my_drama_series @emilygateley @markjpont @snowstoryproductions @_coco_beware_
💋 3: Step by Step | @superpunchystudios @nicolemattox_ @sethedeen @salpaskowitz
🔥 2: Caught Between the Mafia | @dreameshort @mariah_moss @jordanroyfrank @realmichaelyi @verticalthang
🏎️ 1: Overdrive to My Heart | @my_drama_series @taniazlova @nazargrabar @amopictures.official

👇 Let’s talk: Which one of these mini series kept you up until 3 AM? Did your favorite make my list, or am I going to have to fight you in the comments? Drop your thoughts below! 💬👇
#VerticalDramas #ShortFormDrama #ReelShort #MicroDrama DreameShort MyDrama DramaWave DramaPops SuperPunchy DramaShorts EnemiesToLovers BingeWatch ShortSeries VerticalViewWeekly DramaApp MiniSeries MafiaRomance WebSeries

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Read about how producers are tackling microdramas and the various ways that the vertical space differentiates itself from traditional media in our latest issue of #ProducedBy: bit.ly/verticals-tv

#producers #verticals #microdrama #tv

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Pride Month 🏳️‍🌈

A little late, but never mind.
In honor of “Pride Month”, we’d like to share some more wonderful verticals with you. They all deserve to be celebrated, and we’ll be releasing more specials and minis in this genre in the near future.

💫 My Sexy Mentor Seduced Me 💫 on @dramashorts_official
Cast: @elolola_ @alissa_filoramo @mattpohlkamp and more
Crew: @chrissie_deguzman @catefogarty @rae.xurui @wcc_002237 @ryankunadp @hannahd9 @emmapagebailey @mua.ingrid @tiffanylupien @creatingwithimani @vertical.sunsets

💫 The Mafia Princess & The New Girl 💫 on @kalostvapp
Cast: @caylatbrady @vivivozniak @_quinnholmes @silly4lifemary @caroline.hines @amandawsutton and more
Crew: @andy_strawberry_li @polaris_yyyyy @hysteria_li23 @jera_wang @aaron_narval @yun_xie0426 @edoardo.novello @limingyang512 @thejenalbert @nvertproductions @narvalfilms

💫 The Queen’s Only Girl 💫 on @dramapopsapp
Cast: @theelijane @kyrawisely “RyanLusignan" @_bradleyyp @rokas.bewater and more
Crew: @easyhouse.agency and more

Have a wunderful day! 🫶🏻🩷

#PrideMonth #LGBTQ+ #VerticalReview VerticalVerdict

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REVIEW: TORN BETWEEN THE BOSS AND THE DADDY
On DramaShorts
🎬: @catefogarty | @chrissie_deguzman | @vertical.sunsets

If you think this will go the way you thought it would, think again. And then again.

This is a romantic comedy vertical drama that folds in as many tropes as it can in a very convenient way: a female lead romance writer with a very active imagination and a very complicated love life.

@hailey.helen.rutledge plays newly divorced Ava, who finds herself in a love triangle between her one night stand, who just so happens to be the nepo baby who steals her promotion, and the grumpy, mildly combative fellow single parent she literally crashes into at her daughter’s school.

These are two very familiar meet cutes we see in vertical dramas, and she finds herself in both with two very different but very viable leading men.

She immediately catches herself fantasizing about both men, and then about both of them in scenes straight out of the romance novels she writes.

We meet Sebastien, played by @gregrogstad, first. A one night stand on the same night Ava’s husband breaks things off with her. Their story alone could have made a fun enemies to lovers office romance between an unserious CEO and an ambitious career woman. But Sebastien turns out to be more than what he seems, with a full rollercoaster of character developments throughout the story.

@ryancarnes1 as Matt comes in strong the moment we meet him. He is a bit of a grump, but there is real softness underneath. He won me over when he started reading Ava’s favorite romance novel after scoffing at them at first. It is easy to root for him, though there is always a bit of doubt about whether their relationship would actually work.

The story does a good job making its case for Team Matt and Team Sebastien. I have my personal bias, but we all know I usually do not get what I want in vertical land.

I will not spoil the ending because the ride is a big part of the experience. I did have some issues keeping track of the timeline, but time works differently in verticals.

On a personal note, this was the very first vertical set I got to visit and it feels surreal watching this knowing I was there!

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Truly had the best time making this funny, sexy rom com with all these wildly talented, incredible people! 🩷

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✨April Recap✨

So many amazing, chaotic, and really well-made verticals I watched last month and here are my top 10.

But nothing beats the plot twist in my own life. Being in LA was an absolute dream - between attending the @verticaldramalove awards, meeting people I only knew from a screen, and stepping into spaces I never imagined I’d be in a year ago.

Like what do mean I have photos with my top watched vertical actor and actress for the month? 😱

Thank you @beetzeeplay for making it possible 🙏

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This is #KissOfThePirateKing Week!
I’m willing to go out on a limb and say this is the best vertical ever released…(especially for this budget!)

The performances of @fionadorn @arnohorn15 @fit4la @christopher_hoffmann7 are dazzling and so incredibly fun to watch.

Once again @nick.ritacco and @emmareinagel I cannot thank you enough for pouring your guts into this. You are both brilliant and dreams to work with and the fact that you keep coming back to my insanity is remarkable. I love you both!

One of the most important people I’ve ever met @scottymullen not only wrote it, but also stars in it. It’s sensational in all ways!

I’ll give shout out to my incredible crew in the next post, but please download the @my_drama_series app NOW and Kiss of the Pirate King drops May 8th.

Thank you MyDrama and FOX for letting us do something so far out of the vert. Box and thank everyone for all of the support.

I know you will love it!!

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