Short reporting and commentary on AI-made films, the tools behind them, and where the festival and awards world is heading.
Max Barskih's RESET — written, directed, and entirely produced solo using Higgsfield AI — is the clearest sign yet that a single filmmaker can now credibly deliver a multi-location sci-fi short without a crew. Its selection at the Higgsfield Global Film Festival says less about novelty and more about craft: the lunar throne-room confrontation holds up as a piece of staging, not just a technical demo.
Echo Hunter was produced with explicit performer consent and guild sign-off for re-rendering a live performance with Arcana AI's video model — a template other AI productions using a real actor's likeness are likely to follow as the space matures. We break down what was agreed to, and what it doesn't cover.
Untold — The Immortal Blades Saga taking Best Editing at an AI Film Awards event in Venice is a small but real signal: juries are starting to judge AI work on the same craft categories as everything else, rather than ring-fencing it into a separate "innovation" bucket.
The Sora-produced Toys “R” Us spot was one of the first major brand commercials built with a text-to-video model, and it's aged into a useful reference point for how fast — and unevenly — the technology has moved since.