Our Manifesto

ELEVI is a curated digital cinema dedicated exclusively to short film.
Not a content aggregator.
Not a festival database.
Not an archive.

It is a living programme, curated by human beings, and built around the belief that short cinema is one of the most demanding and overlooked forms of filmmaking alive today.

Why we built it

We built ELEVI because we needed it ourselves.
As filmmakers, we spent years making short films that finished their festival runs and then simply disappeared.
Not because they were forgotten, but because there was nowhere serious for them to go.

The major platforms weren't built for short films.
The algorithms weren't designed to surface them. We watched work that took months of precision, sacrifice, and craft dissolve into the noise of the internet without ceremony and without return.
ELEVI is our answer to that silence.

The User Experience: A Cinema in Your Hands

Short film has a structural problem: the infrastructure of digital video was built for endless scrolling and content volume.

ELEVI changes the architecture of how you watch. We have built a premium, native iOS application designed specifically for the art of the short film.

• Zero Interruptions: No algorithms dictating your taste. No advertisements breaking the immersion.

• Uncompromising Fidelity: High-bitrate, 4K cinematic streaming directly on your iPhone, iPad, and soon, Apple TV.

• Human Curation: Every title in our programme was selected by a human being who watched it with full attention. Every collection is composed with a point of view.

The Creator Studio: Restoring Value to the Artist

The current internet model pays filmmakers fractions of a penny for their life’s work. ELEVI was built to be the most creator-friendly platform in the industry, replacing exploitation with true partnership.

Through the ELEVI Creator Studio, we don't pay "per view." We offer a transparent Revenue Engine designed for independent visual storytellers:

• The 70/30 Split: Filmmakers take home up to 70% of the subscription revenue they generate.

• The Profit Shield: A tiered scaling system that rewards creators for bringing long-term, yearly subscribers to the platform.

• True Analytics: Geographic and audience insights so creators actually know who is connecting with their work.

Who This Is For

ELEVI is for the viewer who watches with their full attention and finds most of what the internet offers unworthy of it.

It is not for everyone. It was never intended to be.

If you are here, you already know what you are looking for. We built this so you could find it.

Think Your Film Belongs on ELEVI? We are actively curating our next season of extraordinary adventure, sports, and human stories. If you have a completed short film or documentary that deserves to be seen with full attention, we want to watch it.

Founding creators lock in our maximum 70% revenue tier.