Meet Rover, the Shorts Streamer That Aims to Democratize Moviemaking: It’s ‘Like Sitting in the Room With the Filmmaker’

May 20, 2026 2:28pm PT Meet Rover, the Shorts Streamer That Aims to Democratize Moviemaking: It’s ‘Like Sitting in the Room With the Filmmaker’

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Sitting in front of an expansive wall of floor to ceiling bookcases, David Michôd, the director behind films like “Animal Kingdom” and “The King,” confesses that for the first ten years after film school, he was “stone cold broke.” 

“I really didn’t know if there was a career at the end of the path,” he says, before going on to discuss how crafting short films during the early days of his career lead him to his current vocation as a feature filmmaker. But this isn’t a private seminar with the acclaimed Michôd, or even an actual interview. Rather, it’s a nearly 40-minute, Michôd-led creative masterclass, and one example of the many types of content available within Rover’s catalogue, a six-month-old streaming startup dedicated to democratizing the process of creating short films. 

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