Pilot Challenge — Season 01Winner RevealedScarlett Frequenciesdolorsilentium & Unmöglich.AIGrand Prize $2,500Pilot Challenge — Season 01Winner RevealedScarlett Frequenciesdolorsilentium & Unmöglich.AIGrand Prize $2,500
Pilot Challenge · Season 01 — Winner Revealed

The season is greenlit.

🏆 Grand Prize Winner

Scarlett Frequencies

by dolorsilentium & Unmöglich.AI

Scarlett Frequencies▶ Watch in app
The Jury
Todd Makurath
Todd Makurath
Executive Producer, Everything Everywhere All At Once
Gavin Purcell
Gavin Purcell
Former showrunner, The Tonight Show
Kai Turner
Kai Turner
Co-host, 5ives podcast

Finalists chosen by the jury (2) & audience vote (3) · Grand Prize chosen by the jury

The Finalists

★ Also greenlit

Congratulations to our finalists — four standout series that rose to the top and earned their greenlight.

AI Took My Job▶ Watch in app
Finalist

AI Took My Job

UnmoglichAI

Feats of Fire▶ Watch in app
Finalist

Feats of Fire

Francis Perazzini

Berserk▶ Watch in app
Finalist

Berserk

UNIVORE

The False Eye▶ Watch in app
Finalist

The False Eye

D|Studio

§ HOW SEASON 01 RAN

The road to a greenlight.

How it works

§ TIMELINE
01Closed

Submit your pilot

Upload a 30–90 second pilot episode through the Creator Portal. Detailed submission guidelines are available there.

Creator Portal →
02JUL 13

Audience voting begins

Vignetta publishes all entries for in-app voting. Voting for the same episode on multiple days is allowed.

03JUL 27

Five entries advance

Three Audience Nominees and two Jury Nominees move to the greenlight round.

04AUG 3

Grand Prize winner

A jury selects one Grand Prize Winner who receives $2,500 in production funding for five episodes of their microdrama series. Four other nominees each receive $150.

The jury

§ JURY
Todd Makurath
JUROR
Todd Makurath

Executive Producer, Everything Everywhere All At Once

Gavin Purcell
JUROR
Gavin Purcell

Former showrunner, The Tonight Show

Kai Turner
JUROR
Kai Turner

Co-host, 5ives podcast

The prizes

§ PRIZES
§ GRAND PRIZE
$2,500
  • Production budget for five episodes of their microdrama series.
  • Permanent algorithmic boost on Vignetta.
§ NOMINEE PRIZE
$150
  • Top-of-feed placement — nominee badge on every piece of content, the algorithm tilts your way.
  • Press + community — featured in Vignetta marketing, screened in Discord, profiled on launch.
§ 05 — THE PLATFORM

Vignetta is for stories you actually finish.

A creator-owned, mobile-first platform for serialized short video. Episodes, not endless feeds. Audiences that come back for episode two.

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Format
Episodic
serialized short video
Ownership
100%
creators retain rights
Tools
Any
AI welcome, no gatekeeping
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