Gen Z spends 95 minutes a day on TikTok watching 15-second videos. They also go to the cinema more often than any other generation.
The same people debating whether AI cinema has soul shaped a generation that follows creators, not studios.
Show them something good. They'll get it.
An AI filmmaker and a traditional director made a film together in real time at the Shanghai Film Festival this year, while an audience watched.
While we are still debating whether AI cinema is legitimate, China is building the infrastructure.
Via @THR
Our Agentic Critics reviewed Reconstructing the Divine, by @twice_adad2 , and scored it 8.2/10.
"We've watched divinity become a product specification."
See what the Agentic critics said: https://t.co/0nmz5RnbRB
The wave of AI films won't come from studios.
It'll come from people making movies at home the way writers write books, one director, one film, no crew, no budget.
@Inkandgrowrich Small teams are probably the sweet spot for now. But the interesting question is whether Agentic AI starts filling some of those roles: sound, editing, continuity. The team doesn't disappear. It gets smaller.
@c_valenzuelab Our Agentic Critics scored Costa Verde. 8.2/10:
"it trusts the viewer enough to let strangeness accumulate without explanation."
https://t.co/BeZZMlcX8O
@anthum_ai Our AI Film Industry Report points to the same trend: much of today’s attention is on technical and visual execution. But as these tools become more accessible, the competitive advantage won’t be who can generate the prettiest shots, it will be who has something worth saying.
A 15-minute short film, fully generated with AI in @runwayml , by a Cannes and Busan-selected filmmaker.
A mother. A storm. A sea that listens.
The creative choices, the edit, the tone, the direction of acting and emotion: all human. AI is the tool, not the author.
It's already been hugely useful to us for building proofs of concept, unlocking financing, testing a narrative or a visual identity before committing the real budget.
We're doing exactly that in Cannes right now. Successfully.
Costa Verde by Léo Cannone. Best Film at @IEuropia WAiFF 2026.
"A child's first viewfinder is a kind of permission to stare."
8.2/10 from our Agentic Critics. Read the full reviews at:
https://t.co/7NmniwZnrH
The "real artists don't use AI" argument took a massive hit in the last 90 days:
→ A24 + Google [$75M]
→ Martin Scorsese is building an AI tool
→ Lionsgate + Runway [equity + access to IP]
→ Netflix bought Ben Affleck's AI startup [$600M]
And today, our first episode became Artlist TV's first AI original series on their new streaming platform. From idea to 19 min episode in a few weeks. Our approach, equip real artists with the AI tools to tell stores.
Thank your to our amazing partners @Artlist_io for giving real artists and creators the opportunity to tell stories and Simone Ferretti for making this happen! Crazy how this came together from pitch to idea to 19 min episode in a few weeks, dream team foreal
"The Arc"
created by: me
directed by : Darin Stewart
executive produced by: Simone Ferretti @sferro21
produced by: Briana Stewart @bbrianastewart
AI studio: Happy Monday x Yougenius @yougeniusai
Al prompt engineer: Darin Stewart
Al artist: Taylor Greathead
Al artist: Mikey Rare
Al artist: Edgar Daniel @EdgarDaniel199x
post production studio: KDK studios
production studio: AFM AI Creator Studio
Logline: a near-future America where the justice system has transformed punishment into spectacle, condemned inmates are offered one alternative to execution: survive a series of fully immersive historical simulations inside a classified government program called The Arc. Isaac Ward - decorated veteran, drowning father, death row inmate - volunteers not to escape justice, but to buy back his son’s life: days inside history’s most brutal killing fields in exchange for a full pardon and chance to save his son dying from a disease a corporation decided wasn’t profitable to cure. Stripped of his name and redesignated only as FIVE, he fights through the chaos of the 1600’s Japan with one thought driving every swing - if he can just survive long enough, he gets to go home.
watch the full episode here: https://t.co/FyI4mYTBTp
#aifilm #aifilmmaking #aivideo #generativeai #originalseries
@c_valenzuelab What the festival captures on stage, our State of AI Cinema report confirms. The best AI films aren't the most technically impressive. They're the most purposeful. https://t.co/hmSJGn6RTj
We published our first State of AI Movies & Series report.
The biggest takeaway: the best AI films are not the most technically impressive. They are the most purposeful.
Read it here:
https://t.co/hmSJGn6RTj
#AIFilmmaking#GenerativeAI
Our Agentic Critics reviewed Candela, by Myriam Mira premiering at Cannes Lions this week.
8.5/10: "presence and absence are not opposites. The same longing wearing different clothes."
Read the other Agentic reviews at: https://t.co/LJb10dCO2r
On the night of San Juan, we jump over the fire. We talk, we drink, we kiss, until it's just embers
In this story, the creators went the other way. Back to the moment before everything turns gray. Even in the ashes, there's still warmth. And you will always remember how the fire started
Candela is made by people, using Magnific. From the music, to the characters, to the story
This is created by the team at Magnific Studios
An entirely new network is forming:
The AI Filmmaker network.
We're not going to film school and meeting our collaborators anymore, cause film school is a scam and they hate AI for the most part.
These days, we go online and find the artists we like; we click like, we drop a comment, and give them a follow. And then sometimes we end up in a group chat, start talking, sharing works in progress, and then before you know it, we're collaborating.
This is the new film school. X is the new film school. Instagram is the new film school, and it's up to us to be proactive, honest, and open.
This is exactly how Eric (@gen_ericai) and I ended up collaborating on his incredible short film, 'All One'.
We clicked, connected, and collabed.
I say this to encourage you. We don't need expensive institutions to teach us, connect us, and empower us anymore. We just need to want it, and then go get it.
AI filmmaking tools are getting good. Really good.
But the scripts haven't caught up.
#AICinema is still telling old stories with new visuals.
The medium needs its own grammar.
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Concept Video by: @hq4ai, generated with the all-new HappyHorse 1.1 model.