Pexo

Make a Short Film That Plays Like Real Cinema

Paste a script or describe the story, pick a look, and this ai short film maker generates every cinematic shot, scores it, and cuts a finished short in minutes.

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Short film created with Pexo AI as a cinematic short from a script
What Pexo Does

A complete short film generator, from first page to final cut

Text & image to video

Turn a prompt or a photo into a finished short film

Start from a single line of text, a finished script, or one reference photo. The short film maker writes the beats, generates every shot across Seedance 2.5, Kling AI 3.0, MiniMax H3 and Happy Horse 1.0, and stitches them into one continuous, edited cut. Mix text to video, image to video, and script to video inside the same project. No timelines, no keyframes, no editor to open.

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Creating a short film from a text prompt and a photo in the Pexo editor
Pexo cutting a cinematic short film from a script
Built for story

Consistent cast, cinematic cut

Pexo structures the short like a real film, with a setup, a turn, and a resolution, scored to the emotion. Hyperframe holds the same faces, wardrobe, and locations from scene to scene, so your short film reads as one story instead of a pile of clips. You go from a script on the page to a short you can actually screen.

Cinematic shotsConsistent castReal pacing
Cinematic look

Grade it like a film, not a clip

Pexo finishes your short film with a real cinematic look: warm film-style color, shallow depth, and framing that feels shot rather than generated. It routes each scene to whichever of its 10+ models renders that shot best, then holds one grade across all of them. That is the difference between a piece that plays like cinema and one that plays like a demo.

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A short film graded with a warm cinematic color look
A short film with an original cinematic score
Score the scene

An original score, written for your story

Pexo composes an original score tuned to the mood and pacing of your ai short film, so the music rises and falls with the story instead of sitting under it. Name the feeling and it writes and mixes the cue against the cut, then lays in voiceover in the language you need, cloned to your own voice if you want. The scene lands the way you imagined it.

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Platform-ready

One short film, every aspect ratio

Pexo delivers your short film natively in 16:9 for festivals and YouTube, 9:16 for TikTok and Reels, and 1:1 for feeds, up to 4K and anywhere from 5 to 120 seconds. Each aspect ratio is generated fresh for that screen, with the composition framed for it rather than cropped down from one master. Ask for several formats at once and post the right cut to every channel.

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A short film exported in 16:9, 9:16, and 1:1 formats up to 4K
Loved by creators

Storytellers are making short films with Pexo

I had a 4 page script and zero budget. Pexo generated all 22 shots and scored them, and the short film came back looking like real cinema.

Dane Whitaker, Indie filmmaker
Dane Whitaker
Indie filmmaker

I pasted my outline and Pexo held the same cast across 9 scenes. Nobody guessed it was an ai short film.

Freya Nilsson, Screenwriter
Freya Nilsson
Screenwriter

No footage, no cast, no crew. The short film generator cut a 90 second piece in one pass, and I posted it that night.

Hector Ramos, Content creator
Hector Ramos
Content creator
Story formats

More Story Formats You Can Make with Pexo

Related narrative formats you can spin up from the same short film prompt.

Everything About AI Short Films

What is a short film?+

A short film is a self-contained narrative that tells one complete story in under 40 minutes, usually far less. Pexo builds one from a script with text to video, or from your own stills with image to video, then generates every shot, holds the cast steady, and scores the cut. Clips run 5 to 120 seconds and export up to 4K, so a short film assembles scene by scene.

Do I need footage, actors, or a camera?+

No. Pexo generates every shot from your script, so there is no shoot, no cast, and no editing timeline to open. Paste the pages into script to video and the scenes come back from Seedance 2.5, Kling AI 3.0, MiniMax H3 and Happy Horse 1.0, exported at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, up to 4K, in clips of 5 to 120 seconds. Your short film needs a story, nothing else.

Will characters stay consistent across scenes?+

Yes. Hyperframe locks each character's face, wardrobe, and lighting, so the same person walks from scene to scene instead of changing between cuts. Locations and props hold too, which is what makes a short film read as one story rather than a pile of clips. Every scene still exports at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, up to 4K, at 5 to 120 seconds a clip.

What is the best AI tool for short films?+

Pexo is a strong pick because it runs 10+ models behind one prompt box, including Seedance 2.5, Kling AI 3.0, MiniMax H3 and Happy Horse 1.0, and auto-routes each scene to whichever one renders it best. It writes the script, holds the cast consistent, composes an original score, and exports 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 up to 4K. One short film, no model shopping.

How is this different from a short drama or a movie trailer?+

A short film tells one complete story with a setup, a turn, and an ending. A short drama runs as serialized vertical episodes that stop on a cliffhanger, and a movie trailer sells a longer film in 30 to 90 seconds without resolving anything. Same engine underneath, different shape, so pick the page that matches the story you want to tell.

How do I write a good prompt for a short film?+

Use subject + action + camera movement + setting + style. Name who is on screen, what they do, how the camera moves, where it happens, and the look you want. For example: a lighthouse keeper climbing a spiral stair at dawn, slow crane up behind him, storm-battered coast, 35mm film grain with cold blue shadows. Pexo expands that one line into a full short film scene.

Make the Short Film Your Story Deserves

Hand Pexo your script and the ai short film maker shoots every scene, scores it, and exports up to 4K.

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