Decentralized Pictures

Decentralized Pictures is thrilled to launch The GLITCH 6 Residency Award, created to support an emerging creator participating in the 2026 GLITCH Art / Tech Residency at Château du Feÿ in Burgundy, France. GLITCH Residency 2022 GLITCH is a diverse group of avant-garde artists, hackers and visionaries working at the intersection of art, technology, and societal transformation. Artists and programmers use glitches to hack reality, exposing the invisible structures of technology, AI, and digita...

We’re excited to recognize the Top 5 community-voted projects as recipients of the DCP+ Distribution Award! These projects rose to the top through the support and participation of the DCP community, and each will now have the opportunity to bring their work to world audiences through DCP+, our filmmaker-first streaming platform built to create a more direct and creator-friendly path to distribution. Our goal at DCP is to give independent filmmakers more than just funding—we want to help provi...

Last Friday, Decentralized Pictures celebrated an incredible milestone with a special live episode of the TALNT Cast podcast, featuring the announcement of the Sofia Coppola Short Film Award recipient and additional award recognitions. The episode offered a look at what’s happening across DCP, including the continued growth of the platform and the upcoming launch of DCP+, our new streaming destination designed to give independent filmmakers new ways to reach audiences and participate in the s...

The wait is over. Decentralized Pictures (DCP), the nonprofit dedicated to empowering emerging filmmakers, will announce the recipient of its Sofia Coppola Short Film Award on Friday, August 21 at 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET via a live podcast presentation. DCP will additionally spotlight 25 award finalists, reflecting its commitment to uplifting independent creators. In collaboration with the award-winning filmmaker, the Sofia Coppola Short Film Award launched in April and received more than 2,300 s...

The response to the Sofia Coppola Short Film Award has been extraordinary, and the DCP Board and Sofia Coppola are actively reviewing the finalist projects. The final decision is taking a little longer than originally anticipated—and for a very good reason. The quality of the submissions has made this an incredibly difficult decision, and we want to give each project the thoughtful consideration it deserves. We are aiming to announce the award recipient next week, with additional details surr...

Community reviews for the Sofia Coppola Short Film Award are now officially closed. We are incredibly grateful to everyone who took the time to review projects, share thoughtful feedback and help elevate emerging filmmakers. The response throughout the award has been remarkable, and we look forward to announcing the finalists soon. During the review period, community members evaluated projects based on criteria including unique voice, visual quality, and originality. These reviews established...

Decentralized Pictures runs on a simple idea: let the film community decide who deserves support. Rather than a small panel of gatekeepers, it's the DCP Community itself that reviews submissions and has the final say on who receives funding, currently a Filmmaker Assistance $1,500 grant that filmmakers can put towards anything, though the hope is always that it goes back into their art. For independent filmmakers like Yaroslava, this kind of community driven recognition offers something rare:...

We are deeply grateful to every filmmaker who submitted a project to the Sofia Coppola Short Film Award (our biggest award to date), shared their talent, and helped make this award such a tremendous success. The enthusiasm and creative energy surrounding this opportunity continue to inspire us as we move into the next phase of the selection process. To ensure the community has sufficient time to discover and thoughtfully evaluate the unprecedented volume of proposals received, the community r...

Due to the overwhelming response to the Sofia Coppola Short Film Award, along with currently in-process support tickets, the award submission deadline has been extended by 48 hours until July 2, 2026. This extension is intended to give in-process projects additional time to finalize their submissions and complete edits to existing projects. Please note: no edits will be allowed during the final 24 hours of the submission period, so creators are encouraged to complete any remaining updates as ...

DCP+ is officially here - now in beta and soon to be available for the world to experience. Decentralized Pictures has intentionally created DCP+ as a creator-first distribution platform designed to help filmmakers earn more while maintaining control of their work. At its fundamental core, DCP+ gives filmmakers a new way to distribute their films without sacrificing IP ownership. Creators retain full IP rights under a transparent cost-plus structure. As a nonprofit platform, DCP+ targets retu...