British director Dan Löwenstein, known for vertical dramas like ReelShort’s “Pride & Prejudice,” is set to direct and produce a new and as-yet untitled U.K.-made microdrama currently in development with Night Train Media and Spirit Studios.
The project was confirmed by Eccho Rights and Night Train executive Sarah Postlethwaite during a panel at the Tallinn Black Nights Festival reflecting the format’s rapid global rise and Britain’s potentially growing role as a production base for mobile-native storytelling. Postlethwaite described it as “one of the first U.K.-produced vertical dramas.”
Löwenstein, who has directed some 18 vertical mini series in the past year for companies including the Chinese-backed U.S. platform ReelShort, has already put together a series overview and a first 10-episodes breakdown with two co-writers: a TikTok content creator “with 4.2 million views,” and a “more traditional scripted content comedian.”
“We’re getting to a point…