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Top 25 Short film production companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 6,362 short film production companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 25,885 professional contacts across them, including 4,987 with verified work emails. Los Angeles is the largest hub.
This list covers short film production companies headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest short film production companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,181 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Anonymous Content is a visionary and disruptive media company that produces multi-platform premium content and boasts an exceptional client roster which includes many of the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 507 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “BODEGA is a content creation studio based in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 319 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Harbor is a production and post-production studio built to serve filmmakers, creators, and brands at the highest level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 157 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Optimus is a collective of award winning filmmakers, storytellers, and artists working with agencies and brands to develop and produce engaging and effective creative content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1985 by filmmaker Richard Linklater, AFS creates life-changing opportunities for filmmakers, catalyzes Austin and Texas as a creative hub, and brings the community…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by producer David Zander and director Rocky Morton, MJZ represents a roster of acclaimed filmmakers, producing award-winning feature films, commercials and music videos…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From development to deliverables and everything in between, Crazy Legs has the experience and the infrastructure for producing feature films, episodic television, and branded…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 86 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2010 by college students and partners Matthew Helderman and Luke Taylor, Buffalo 8 is a full-service media company based throughout Los Angeles, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Panay Films is a full-service film production company and creative agency.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Fresh Films (formerly Dreaming Tree Foundation) creates Emmy-nominated films, TV shows and documentaries while training future filmmakers in all aspects of film.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Words + Pictures, founded by Connor Schell and Chernin Entertainment in 2021, is a production studio with a mission to produce high-end, culturally relevant nonfiction content.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Between the “What” of your idea and the “How” of a finished story, there are a thousand tiny decisions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 70 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DHD Films is a family-owned, award-winning production company based in Dallas that produces results driven communications for clients across the nation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are a post-production company with a passion for nurturing creativity through community and thoughtful collaboration.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 61 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DRIVER is an independent content production studio that seamlessly brings together idea creation, production, and content distribution disciplines to create the first truly…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Red Productions is an Emmy award-winning film and video production company based in Fort Worth.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Adaptive next-gen production & post studio ArtClass joins directors, editors, writers, and designers to create bold & imaginative work with a wide array of agencies and brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by industry veteran Lashan Browning as a joint venture with Paramount Global, Antoinette Media is a full-service production company specializing in authentic, mass-appeal…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1998 by Executive Producer Jacqueline Kelman Bisbee and renowned filmmaker/cinematographer Lance Acord.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “STONESTREET STUDIOS is celebrating 33 years as a New York City-based fully operative, multi-purpose, visual motion picture production studio, founded by Alyssa Rallo Bennett and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Scott Free has offices in London and Los Angeles and has a number of feature films and television programmes in development and production.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Film House is the largest film production company in Tennessee producing hundreds of projects annually.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PS260 Since 2002, the visual storytellers at PS260 have provided best-in-class and award-winning Creative Content Development, Production, Editorial, Post-Production, Visual…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 48 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “MOO Studios develops, finances, and produces independent feature films.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Atlantic Pictures is a creative content studio and video production company that works with agencies and brands to create exceptional content at any budget level.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: short film production companies. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names short film production companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of short film production companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name short film production companies. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Short film production companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 6,362 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among short film production companies, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “short film production companies”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names short film production companies), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among short film production companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 4,987 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Short film production companies by metro
- Short film production companies in Los Angeles933
- Short film production companies in New York562
- Short film production companies in Atlanta174
- Short film production companies in Chicago173
- Short film production companies in Brooklyn124
- Short film production companies in Austin100
- Short film production companies in San Francisco86
- Short film production companies in Portland79
- Short film production companies in Miami71
- Short film production companies in Seattle66
- Short film production companies in New York City60
- Short film production companies in Dallas58
- Short film production companies in Denver58
- Short film production companies in Beverly Hills57
- Short film production companies in Santa Monica56
- Short film production companies in Burbank55
- Short film production companies in Orlando55
- Short film production companies in Houston54
- Short film production companies in Philadelphia54
- Short film production companies in San Diego53
- Short film production companies in Washington48
- Short film production companies in Nashville41
- Short film production companies in Minneapolis40
- Short film production companies in Phoenix37
- Short film production companies in Salt Lake City36
- Short film production companies in Charlotte35
- Short film production companies in Boston34
- Short film production companies in West Hollywood34
- Short film production companies in Las Vegas31
- Short film production companies in Baltimore30
- Short film production companies in Pittsburgh28
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names short film production companies, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many short film production companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 6,362 short film production companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Anonymous Content, headquartered in Culver City, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most short film production companies?
Los Angeles leads with 933 headquartered companies, followed by New York (562) and Atlanta (174).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 4,987 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 6,362 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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