Pilot Challenge — Season 01★Winner Revealed★Scarlet Frequencies★dolorsilentium & Unmöglich.AI★Grand Prize $2,500★Pilot Challenge — Season 01★Winner Revealed★Scarlet Frequencies★dolorsilentium & Unmöglich.AI★Grand Prize $2,500★
Pilot Challenge · Season 01 — Winner Revealed

The season is greenlit.

🏆 Grand Prize Winner

by dolorsilentium & Unmöglich.AI

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.

Finalist

AI Took My Job

UnmoglichAI

Finalist

Feats of Fire

Francis Perazzini

Finalist

Berserk

UNIVORE

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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