DiscoverFilm live stream

DiscoverFilm online television

DiscoverFilm is a United Kingdom movie channel built entirely around the short film, a format the company set out to make mainstream rather than leaving it to festivals and student showcases. The service sources short movies from around the world and gives them a platform through video on demand and multi-channel distribution, and every title it carries is shown with permission and under licence from the filmmaker who made it. The brand is catalogued as a movies channel from the United Kingdom and presents its work in English.

The catalogue is what distinguishes the channel from a general film network: instead of a handful of features repeated through the week, it offers a long roll of self-contained stories that begin and end inside half an hour, made by independent directors from many countries. The linear feed runs continuously, so a viewer who tunes in at any hour finds a film already under way and another waiting behind it, while the on-demand library keeps titles available to watch from the start. Genres shift from film to film, with drama, comedy, thriller, animation and documentary work all passing through the schedule, and the emphasis sits on discovery rather than on franchises, which is how unknown directors reach an audience that would never have searched for them.

The channel is distributed as a free linear service on smart television platforms and its films are also published on the official online video channel, so viewers can Watch Live from a browser and stream online on a phone, tablet, laptop or smart TV without a subscription and without a set-top box. Watch TV Online Free through the evening, let one short follow another, and keep a steady United Kingdom Live Stream of independent cinema running in the background: a real TV Online window onto short films from Britain and the rest of the world.

DiscoverFilm Watch Live Channel