Although romance tales have lengthy powered the microdrama business, a bunch of creatives is attempting to popularize bite-sized tales in different genres — from true crime to anime to thrillers to, now, religion and household.
Lighthouse Verticals, a brand new microdramas platform with a give attention to faith-based leisure, will launch in November with unique tasks from Studio316 and Snow Story Productions, The Hollywood Reporter has realized. Studio316 was based by former NFL professional Tim Tebow’s firm The Tebow Group to provide faith-based leisure. Snow Story Productions has produced a number of verticals for the DramaShorts app and commercials for the likes of Sonic, HP and Bud Mild.
Lighthouse Verticals, which is able to give attention to “uplifting, values-driven leisure” per a press launch, is co-founded by filmmaker Brent Ryan Inexperienced (an govt producer of The Chosen and co-producer of The Unbreakable Boy), Jesse Liddell (former evp of LD Leisure), Justin Levy (govt producer of Black Rabbit and Treadstone) and Scott Holroyd (producer of Cash Electrical: The Bitcoin Thriller).
Liddell, who will function CEO of Lighthouse Verticals, described the corporate’s viewers as one which “desires to have interaction with the tradition with out compromise.” He added of viewers in search of religion and household content material, “They need leisure with actual emotion, actual momentum and values they’ll belief, however they’ve largely been neglected by the fastest-growing platforms within the area. Lighthouse Verticals was constructed for them.”
Heisman Trophy winner Tebow, who has lengthy been vocal about his evangelical Christian religion, will govt produce tasks for Lighthouse Verticals after not too long ago serving in that function on the animated musical David, which was distributed within the U.S. by Angel in 2025. His Studio316 is about to work on 30-plus tasks with Snow Story Productions for the platform.
“I consider tales have the ability to vary how folks see themselves, see others, and finally see Jesus,” Tebow mentioned in a press release. “We’re dedicated to telling tales with excellence and our hope is that, finally, we are able to glorify God within the course of.”
Like different firms within the microdrama area, Lighthouse Verticals will debut its personal app, which is at the moment in beta, to monetize its shortform storytelling. In a extra unique twist, the app will function “group hubs” and the power for viewers to debate tales reside. In different phrases, the app is being designed to permit group teams to observe and speak about collection collectively, although the corporate wouldn’t share many particular particulars on these options at current.
Lighthouse Verticals is creating tales that span romance, comedy, drama and household themes, with titles set to be introduced at a later date. It’s additionally concentrating on a number of age teams with its fare.
“Studio 316 was created from a shared perception that faith-based leisure has lengthy been underserved by rising digital codecs, regardless of the big measurement and fervour of the viewers,” mentioned Snow Story Productions govt producer and Studio 316 co-founder Edward Tommasi in a press release. “By combining Tim’s ardour for faith-centered storytelling, The Tebow Group’s mission-driven imaginative and prescient, Snow Story’s manufacturing experience and Lighthouse’s revolutionary distribution platform, we’re constructing one thing that may meaningfully increase the attain of faith-and-family leisure.”
