We’re excited to welcome @Topview AI and @AIM0V1E to the 2026 Neu Wave AI Film Festival on October 14 in Santa Monica during LA Tech Week!
TopView will showcase the latest AI tools for filmmaking and content creation, while AI M0V1E will discuss opportunities for distribution and monetization—helping filmmakers understand not only how to create with AI, but also how to bring their work to audiences and generate revenue.
Join us for an exciting evening of screenings, industry panels, presentations, and networking with filmmakers and technology leaders.
Reserve your spot before tickets sell out:https://t.co/j19t067Y9p
"I love it like a Sunday... not like a religion."
Here is an exclusive clip from ENCORE, our feature horror film premiering along with 10 other finalist films at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival.
Created with @TopviewAIhq AI, this scene showcases how generative AI can deliver grounded emotional performances alongside creeping dread and cinematic visual storytelling. RSVP to the film festival: https://t.co/j19t067Y9p
Our latest AI microdrama mixes martial arts, romance, and golf. We’ll “hook” you from Episode 1, and the story only gets wilder from there.
Watch more at https://t.co/zRlmc1nuc0
Creating an AI vertical drama? Submit to the Neu Wave × @TopviewAIhq Vertical Drama Competition at https://t.co/6hhBGvoM3n and distribution by @AIM0V1E
AI can generate beautiful clips.
But filmmaking needs direction.
Introducing Topview Film Studio: the cinematic generation suite for AI filmmakers. 🎬
Direct micro-expressions. Set the camera. Block the scene in 3D. Refine portraits to remove the AI look.
Topview Film Studio brings these film-grade controls into one cinematic canvas.
Stop prompting clips. Start directing shots.
When we partnered with @TopviewAIhq for the Vertical Drama Competition at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival, our goal was simple: to showcase what happens when talented filmmakers are paired with powerful creative tools.
What excites us most about this category isn't the technology itself, it's watching visionary filmmakers use AI to push the boundaries of storytelling.
AI isn't replacing filmmakers. It's giving creative directors new ways to realize ambitious ideas, tell more compelling stories, and bring cinematic visions to life.
Official Selection Spotlight
Vertical Film: KEEP WATCHING
Directed by Lipe Veloso & Daniel Mendes (Submission AI3514)
Created using @TopviewAIhq AI, this Official Selection demonstrates how today's AI tools can empower filmmakers to produce emotionally engaging, visually striking vertical dramas. From its atmospheric tension to its confident pacing, this film is a great example of how technology can support storytelling without ever overshadowing it.
Congratulations to Lipe Veloso and Daniel Mendes on being selected, and thank you to Topview AI for partnering with us to help showcase the next generation of AI-powered storytellers.
Join us on October 14 at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival and experience the future of storytelling. Get your tickets here- https://t.co/6hhBGvoM3n
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At Neu wave AI film festival, we’re not looking for AI demo clips or wannabe deepfake videos. We are looking for films internationally that we could help amplify through our partner @AIM0V1E AI M0V1E for worldwide distribution and monitization to empower AI filmmakers. That's exactly why we created this five minute animated film based on our founder's true story to show that you can use AI to tell a deeply personal story and still have a real shot at distribution.
Without AI, this story would have never been told. It would have never had a chance to get made. This isn't a fifteen second meaningless action clip. It is the human experience. And that's what Neu Wave Films is all about.
If you're making work with real heart and you want to actually do something with it, submit to Neu Wave film fest and check out @AIM0V1E AI M0V1E . They're giving submitters a real chance to distribute and monetize their films. We're proud to partner with them and show what's possible when you combine technology with something worth saying.
The opening sequence of our next AI-native horror feature was created using @TopviewAIhq AI's new Seedance 4K model. The image quality is remarkably close to theater ready.
AI filmmaking is moving beyond short demos and into feature-length storytelling.
If you're creating an AI feature film, we'd love to see it at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival.
We love working with actors. Nothing replaces the humanity of a real performance. That's why we've been experimenting this hybrid method with combining live actors and AI. It's not just a green screen. But changing the actor's appearance (hair, outfit, age) but keep the essence of the performance and original camera move. AI doesn't cheapen storytelling, it enriches it, placing real people inside the story world. The actor act in the comfort of their own home with no lighting, no make up, no props, shoot with your phone. We readjust the mood and lighting and environment. The new filmmaking is wild.
What would Alfred Hitchcock and Salvador Dalí create if they were making a vertical dream sequence today?
One of the most unforgettable moments in cinema is the dream sequence from Spellbound, a collaboration between Hitchcock and Dalí that brought surrealism into film in a way few artists could have imagined at the time.
I always wanted to create a sequence like that and today, AI gives filmmakers the opportunity to access and to create your own dream sequence. Submit it to the @TopviewAIhq AI Vertical Competition at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival. Cash prizes, recognition, and a chance to showcase your vision alongside fellow AI filmmakers. Enter at: https://t.co/6hhBGvoM3n
One of the most exciting developments we're seeing this year at the Neu Wave AI Film Festival is the rapid growth of long-form AI filmmaking. https://t.co/6hhBGvoM3n
In 2025, we received only one AI film over one hour in length.
This year, the AI Long Film category received 67 submissions, including 20 films running over one hour. This is a remarkable milestone for the AI filmmaking community and a sign that creators are moving beyond short experiments and proof-of-concepts to tackle ambitious feature-length storytelling.
Creating a long-form film with AI requires extraordinary dedication, persistence, and creative problem-solving. We would like to recognize the filmmakers who took on that challenge this year:
🎬 Il programma (The Program) — Alberto Zanigni (Italy) — 3h 45m
🎬 Arachnomorphia: Empire of the Spider Queens — Axel Loh (Germany) — 2h 20m
🎬 MAGELLAN — Michael Stevens Wheeler (USA) — 1h 41m
🎬 My Boyfriend is a Superhero!? — Hooroo Jackson (USA) — 1h 40m
🎬 Slow Burn — Bruce Harrison Smith (USA) — 1h 29m
🎬 The Examination of Doctor Franklin — Thomas Porter (USA) — 1h 26m
🎬 FUCK HOLLYWOOD — Jean-Louis Uzan (Spain) — 1h 22m
🎬 HAYDON: Patron Saint of the Obsessed — Lucas Sabean (USA) — 1h 19m
🎬 The Living Corpse — Takeshi Sone (Japan) — 1h 07m
🎬 Man in Hanbok — Sanghoon Lee (South Korea) — 1h 04m
🎬 The Scribe and the Swordsman — Rokuro Kobo (Japan) — 1h 04m
🎬 Summer Triangle — Takeru Nakazawa (Japan) — 1h 04m
🎬 Resonance of Time — Bong-Hwan Kim (South Korea) — 1h 00m
🎬 The Fist Story — Enrique de la Rosa Pérez (Spain) — 1h 00m
🎬 Ezekiel — Isaac Rodriguez (USA) — 1h 00m
🎬 Digital Silent Night — Thomas Liam Hewett (United Kingdom) — 57m
🎬 The Legacy of Gilgamesh — Sebastian Androne-Nakanishi (Romania) — 56m
🎬 The Life of Christ in Song — Nancy Hamilton (USA) — 53m
🎬 Magda and The Female Police — Toni Marques (Brazil) — 50m
🎬 Rufus: The Compton Cowboy — Larry Ulrich (USA) — 48m
🎬 Seven Fleeting Days --Phoenix Liu (China)--45m
To all of these filmmakers: thank you for helping push the boundaries of what AI cinema can become.
The future of AI filmmaking isn't just short clips anymore. It's feature films. Here they are. Come and join us this year to celebrates these mavericks.
If you're a fan of Ingmar Bergman, then you know this scene.
Its imagery helped inspire some of the most nightmarish moments later seen in the work of David Lynch.
This AI reimagining isn't simply a colorized version of the original. We've reworked the sequence with a different ending and transformed it into a proof-of-concept piece for a horror film we're currently developing with AI.