Best Shorts Kickstarter projects to watch
10 live Shorts projects ranked by Lens Score — a 0-100 composite of funding velocity, backer momentum, target completion, and Kickstarter staff-pick signal.
Pulled from 28 live Shorts projects (category averages 30% of goal, $62K total pledged across the category). Updated July 2026.
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Best Non-Partner: Queer Friendship Short Film STRETCH GOALS
While trying to choose a movie, Damien and Sunnie’s lifelong friendship might be destroyed when a shocking secret gets exposed.
$2K raised165% funded26 backers+0.4% 24h41LENS SCORE - 02US
Non-Compliant
A film by Daisy Friedman about a wheelchair user who goes on a chaotic bender after finding out her pressure sore could turn fatal.
$429 raised1% funded9 backers+56.6% 24h35LENS SCORE - 03★ Staff PickGB
Am I A Good Man
When a young couple are hired to dispose of a suitcase, the disturbing contents threaten the life they've built.
$5K raised77% funded40 backers0.0% 24h32LENS SCORE - 04US
Dorma: An Unreal Story Based on Real Events
DORMA is an intense short film spotlighting the dark truths of the U.S. immigration system & the acts of defiance happening within it.
$22K raised108% funded80 backers0.0% 24h28LENS SCORE - 05GB
In Blue | A short film about the absence of memory
An eight-year-old girl remembers her father through drawings and memories, until her mother’s attempt to move on disrupts her reality.
$6K raised106% funded31 backers+3.7% 24h28LENS SCORE - 06★ Staff PickUS
Fumikomi - A Short Film
During a flood evacuation, two sisters find their mother’s journals that they can’t read, confronting generations of cultural loss.
$585 raised6% funded13 backers+19.4% 24h28LENS SCORE - 07US
Girls Night
Girls Night explores the strange ways people cope with discomfort, fear, and friendship.
$6K raised71% funded48 backers+0.9% 24h21LENS SCORE - 08GB
Top Brass- A Short Film
“Life is like a trumpet. If you don’t put anything into it, you don’t get anything out of it”
$2K raised10% funded16 backers+20.9% 24h21LENS SCORE - 09FR
WHAT YOU WILL BECOME/ CE QUE TU DEVIENDRAS
Short film/ Court-métrage
$4K raised42% funded26 backers0.0% 24h14LENS SCORE - 10JP
Don’t Stop Haunting Me - A Short Film
A collaborative short film realized by emerging artists from Japan, Brazil, and the U.S.
$911 raised45% funded11 backers0.0% 24h13LENS SCORE
How this list is built
We pull all live Shorts projects on Kickstarter (refreshed every 8 hours), then rank them by either Lens Score (for projects with at least 24 hours of data) or Early Momentum (for projects in their first 72 hours). The top 10 land here.
No editorial weighting — the ranking is the math. The list updates automatically every hour, so the projects on this page next week may not be the same ones you see today.
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