Though romance stories have long powered the microdrama industry, a host of creatives is trying to popularize bite-sized stories in other genres — from true crime to anime to thrillers to, now, faith and family.
Lighthouse Verticals, a new microdramas platform with a focus on faith-based entertainment, will launch in November with original projects from Studio316 and Snow Story Productions, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Studio316 was founded by former NFL pro Tim Tebow’s company The Tebow Group to produce faith-based entertainment. Snow Story Productions has produced several verticals for the DramaShorts app and commercials for the likes of Sonic, HP and Bud Light.
Lighthouse Verticals, which will focus on “uplifting, values-driven entertainment” per a press release, is co-founded by filmmaker Brent Ryan Green (an executive producer of The Chosen and co-producer of The Unbreakable Boy), Jesse Liddell (former evp of LD Entertainment), Justin Levy (executive producer of Black Rabbit and Treadstone) and Scott Holroyd (producer of Money Electric: The Bitcoin Mystery).
Liddell, who will serve as CEO of Lighthouse Verticals, described the company’s audience as one that “wants to engage with the culture without compromise.” He added of viewers looking for faith and family content, “They want entertainment with real emotion, real momentum and values they can trust, but they have largely been overlooked by the fastest-growing platforms in the space. Lighthouse Verticals was built for them.”
