featurette
noun
fea·tur·ette
ˈfē-chər-ˌet 
ˌfē-chər-ˈet
: a short film
especially
: a short documentary film about the making of a full-length movie
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To get a sense of the movie, check out this IMAX featurette, in which its cinematographer, Autumn Durald Akrapaw, explains how the tall image of the IMAX frame delivers an emotional quality that other formats cannot reach.
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Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
In the featurette below, premiering exclusively on Billboard, Sink is a traveling troubadour in a wasteland communicating with her music, but runs afoul of a charismatic dictator, Plutonovich, played by Bartlett.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
In a featurette from the forthcoming digital release of A Complete Unknown, which Entertainment Weekly can share exclusively above, star Timothée Chalamet discusses his extensive vocal and musical preparation to portray a young Dylan on the rise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
In fact, White teased the possibility of more Greg in a featurette accompanying that season’s finale.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
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Benny Har-Even, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
In the featurette below, premiering exclusively on Billboard, Sink is a traveling troubadour in a wasteland communicating with her music, but runs afoul of a charismatic dictator, Plutonovich, played by Bartlett.
—Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Mar. 2025
In a featurette from the forthcoming digital release of A Complete Unknown, which Entertainment Weekly can share exclusively above, star Timothée Chalamet discusses his extensive vocal and musical preparation to portray a young Dylan on the rise.
—Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 24 Feb. 2025
In fact, White teased the possibility of more Greg in a featurette accompanying that season’s finale.
—Judy Berman, TIME, 17 Feb. 2025
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“Featurette.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/featurette. Accessed 18 Apr. 2025.
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