Mann Robinson Distribution delivers Black microdramas to microdrama platforms, with no upfront fee to submit or to be accepted.
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Black microdrama distribution brings vertical series made by Black writers, directors and producers, or centered on Black characters and stories, to microdrama platforms, where each story plays out one episode at a time on a phone. Mann Robinson Distribution, headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, takes on Black microdramas in every genre, and the creator keeps 100 percent ownership of the series. This guide covers how a Black vertical series is credited, described and owned, and where it sits beside the Black film festival circuit.
It is for Black creators making vertical series, and for any series built around Black characters and stories. The route is the one every microdrama takes: Mann Robinson Distribution licenses the right to distribute the series, checks that every episode and every required file is in place, verifies the chain of title, and delivers the series once it is approved.
The steps, the delivery checklist and the terms are set out in our microdrama distribution guide. This page covers the parts that belong to the creator: the names in the credits, the words that describe the story, and the ownership of the series.
In full. Every microdrama Mann Robinson Distribution delivers carries named credits. The series needs two or more cast credits, each naming the actor by first and last name along with the character, and one or more crew credits naming the person in full along with a role.
The crew roles are Director, Creator, Writer, Producer, Executive Producer, Showrunner, DP / Cinematographer, Editor, Composer, Casting Director and Production Designer. Two cast credits and one crew credit are the floor, not the goal. List every actor who carries a storyline, each with a first and last name and the character they play, and every key crew member who earned a credit, with names spelled the way each person is credited professionally. Credits travel with the series when it is delivered, so give them the same care as the episodes.
In your own words, with specifics. The poster, the title and the loglines introduce the series, so they carry the story. Specific details describe a story better than a broad label can: a named city, a family business, a secret that cannot hold, a deadline that will not move.
Write the series logline and every episode logline around the people and the stakes, so one line tells a viewer whose story this is and what could be lost. Choose a poster image that shows your leads clearly, and write the synopsis the way you would pitch the series. Image sizes, file formats and character limits are listed in our microdrama distribution guide.
The creator does. You keep 100 percent ownership of the series, including the copyright, and Mann Robinson Distribution holds only the right to distribute it for the term in your acceptance letter.
Our team confirms the chain of title, the record that shows who holds the rights, before a series goes out, and the portal records who confirmed it and when. No series is delivered until that check is complete. That is why the copyright holder line on your submission matters: enter the full legal name of the person or company that owns the series.
Alongside it. Our city guides cover festivals that have championed Black and diaspora cinema for years: the Black Harvest Film Festival in Chicago, Urbanworld in New York, the BlackStar Film Festival in Philadelphia, the Baltimore International Black Film Festival and the American Black Film Festival in Miami Beach.
A festival run builds a filmmaker's name with programmers, press and peers. A vertical series is made for a different screen, the phone, where viewers on microdrama platforms watch one episode at a time. Licensing the series and delivering it to those platforms is the part Mann Robinson Distribution takes on.
With a submission at mannrobinsondistribution.com/submit, on the same form every microdrama uses. Choose Microdrama as the project type, complete the series details, and name the copyright holder in full. Our team reviews the series, and if it is a fit, we send you an acceptance letter to sign.
Uploading, approval and delivery are covered step by step in our microdrama distribution guide. Creators in Atlanta can sit down with us, and creators anywhere can submit online.
No. There is no upfront fee to submit or to be accepted.
Features, documentaries, series and TV shows, shorts, and microdramas in every genre. Our microdrama distribution guide covers every vertical series we take on.
No. Mann Robinson Distribution is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and works with creators outside Georgia too. Every submission starts online at mannrobinsondistribution.com/submit.
Tell us about your series, its episodes and who holds the copyright, and our team will review it. No upfront fee to submit or to be accepted.
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