A Curated Home for Short Film
A streaming service where new filmmakers compete to be discovered. Every film is screened by a person before it premieres. Subscribers vote, and industry judges pick the winners.
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Summer Showcase Voting is open – closes Sunday, August 16Why PREVO exists
The filmmaker's problem
Thousands of extraordinary short films are finished every year. They screen at two or three festivals, collect a laurel, and disappear onto a hard drive. There is no market for them and no route from a festival win to a career – just a hope that the right person happened to be in the room.
The audience's problem
Meanwhile the most interesting new filmmaking in the world is the hardest thing to actually watch. It isn't on the major services, and an endless feed of unscreened uploads is not the same as being handed something good by someone who watched it first.
PREVO is the venue in between. Every film screened by a person before it premieres. Every award decided first by the people who watch, and then by the professionals who hire.
Our mission
Give every serious short film a permanent home, a paying audience, and a real route to the people who can hire the filmmaker who made it.
The long game
To become the place the industry looks when it wants to know who's next – because every director you can name made a short film first.
The Summer Showcase · 2026
30 films.
Screened and streaming
5 categories.
Picture · Acting · Camera · Writing · Music
You decide.
Your membership is your ballot
Our first open competition – every genre, students and professionals alike, documentaries included for the first time. Subscribers vote the finalists through. From there the films go to industry judges, who choose the winners and announce them live at a virtual ceremony in August.
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Voting is open to PREVO members. 7-day free trial, cancel any time.
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Nominate one film in each of the five categories.
Who picks the winners
Members vote the nominees through. Working industry professionals choose from there – and say why, live on stream. Spring's panel:
UTA · HarperCollins Productions · Media Talent Group
Now streaming on PREVO
Explore all 130+ films
Thirty films, five categories, and a ballot that belongs to you. Watch the selections, then decide which ones reach the judges.
Watch the selections
New episode · First Frame
Director Caroline Murray, producer Alexis Kuncar, and star Kiera Nusbaum on turning a student film into a campus phenomenon – before it finished shooting.
Episode one · First Frame
The Best Picture & Writing team on their process – and the film's out-of-nowhere ending.
New premieres this week
All new arrivalsThree short films, free – the fastest way to see what we mean by curated. If they land, the other 130 are waiting.
Like what you see? A membership opens all 130+.
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The Weekend Read
Issue No. 60 · July 14, 2026
Sherman's March · Evil Dead · Read Receipts
The anchor piece
The Time Capsule of Sherman's March
Miles Stephenson on Ross McElwee's accidental self-portrait
In this issue · No. 60
The anchor · Miles Stephenson
Ross McElwee set out to retrace Sherman's march through the South and came home with something stranger – a chronicle of his own romantic misadventures. Miles on the 1986 documentary that became an accidental self-portrait.
The weekend's releases · Nicolas James
The latest Evil Dead keeps its story self-contained and its family drama front and center – and critics took the bait. So why didn't the box office rise with it?
Read Receipts · Vol. Seven
Moana takes on water, Evil Dead Burn opens soft, and the weekend's only overperformer is the one original in the field – plus what it means for filmmakers.
For filmmakers
Most shorts vanish when the festival run ends. On PREVO they get a permanent home and an audience that keeps showing up. Free to submit, year-round, any genre.
I feel lucky to have Laid Bare placed next to so many bold, unique films from new creative voices. The PREVO team have curated and supported some serious emerging talent.
Morgen LudwigDirector of Laid Bare · Best Music, Spring 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
Everything. Unlimited streaming of 130+ curated indie and student short films, ad-free. Subscriber voting in our seasonal film competitions across five categories. Access to The Weekend Read — our weekly film magazine with genuine criticism and industry analysis. Invitations to live events, Q&As, and filmmaker conversations. All for $5.99/month or $59.99/year, with a 7-day free trial.
Each season, PREVO runs a film competition. The Summer Showcase — our most open competition yet — accepts short films of any genre from filmmakers at every level, including documentaries. Accepted films are added to the platform and put to a subscriber vote across five categories: Best Picture, Acting, Cinematography, Writing, and Music. Live tallies are visible in real time. The top-voted films in each category advance to a panel of entertainment industry professionals for final judging, with winners announced at a livestreamed awards ceremony. This summer's voting opens Sunday, July 26.
Sunday, July 26. Showcase selections are premiering on the platform now, and when voting opens, every subscriber gets a ballot – with an all-new voting experience on the way. Watch the films, cast your votes across all five categories, and see the live tallies as they come in. Winners are announced at the livestreamed August ceremony.
Email your film (or a private link) to submissions@prevostreaming.com along with a short logline and any posters or stills you have. PREVO accepts submissions from filmmakers of all backgrounds year-round — Summer Showcase submissions closed July 20, but general catalogue submissions are always open. We screen every film before it goes live and follow up within seven days.
Short films, almost exclusively — indie and student work that's been screened before it premieres here. Most submissions come through film festivals, which means the catalogue skews toward films that have already been recognized somewhere. You'll find drama, documentary, experimental work, and everything in between. If it's good and it fits, it's on PREVO.
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