Independent Media Studio
Original Stories.
Your Worlds.
The front door
Don't Read. Don't Watch. Be in the Story.
Legacy Studio Originals creates the worlds. Living Worlds invites audiences inside them — where a licensed version of a story becomes one you can enter and make your own. Step inside an interactive, cinematic platform where the studio’s universes become places you can move through.
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Zona Negra
Perdido
A Zona Negra short story and short film, and the free Guest Pass entry into Living Worlds. Short film in active production.
Four universes
One studio, four continuities
Every project belongs to a world. The worlds are built to last.
Catalog
Selected works
- 4
- Narrative universes
- 14
- Published books
- 10
- Festival & book honors
- Living Worlds
- The front door
Plus the Zona Negra anthology
Available on Books.by
Across screen and page
Enter the story
We don't build franchises. We build worlds that were always going to outlast us.
Newsroom
Latest from the studio
Living Worlds Opens With a Founders Festival
The studio’s interactive platform launches — enter a story, and leave with a version that’s yours.
The Train Wins at Hollywood Just4Shorts
The La Patria es Primero short takes the Short Film award and earns a Cannes World Film Festival nomination.
El General Wins Best TV / Web Pilot
The screenplay is named an Award Winner at the Manhattan International Screenplay Awards by CINEVERSE.
Founders Festival
Be in the story.
Start free with a Guest Pass, or unlock every world with the Festival Pass.






