Lights, camera, algorithm: First fully AI-generated film set to premiere at Tribeca Festival
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A $2,000 budget. No actors, no cameras, no crew. And now, a spot at one of America's most prestigious film festivals.
"Dreams of Violets," a 75-minute AI-generated film about Iranian civilian resistance, will make its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in June, becoming the first AI-generated live-action feature to land in an official festival lineup.
The film, directed by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, dramatizes a massacre of civilians in Tehran earlier this year. Born in Iran and living in exile, the brothers had no access to the locations, the people, or the stories they wanted to tell. AI made it possible.
"The AI pipeline made it possible to do what would otherwise have been impossible," Ash wrote, "to create a memorial film for an event that happened behind a wall I cannot cross."
Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal called it "deeply human storytelling," powered by emerging technology. Hollywood, for now, remains divided.
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