Browsing: Filmmaking

I’ve spent the last two weeks trying to figure out where to send Lost Garden next, and the answer that keeps winning isn’t the one I expected. Not a regional showcase bolted onto an existing festival as a side program. Not a waiting game for a jury that still doesn’t have a category for a…

Smile Seenu, who has worked through the transition from reel cameras to digital filmmaking, is now exploring AI, virtual production and emerging technologies to create films in a new way.

AI filmmaking has moved from experimental to standard practice in under two years. AI-generated footage has appeared in major commercial campaigns and screened at real festivals, and productions with genuine budgets are now shipping AI-assisted work at scale. 

About the Instructor: Albert Gabriel Nigrin is an award-winning experimental filmmaker whose films have been screened worldwide. He is also a Cinema Studies Lecturer at Rutgers University, and the Executive Director/Curator of the Rutgers Film Co-op/New Jersey Media Arts Center, Inc. — a non-profit organization which screens and promotes independent, experimental and artistic cinema in…

I finished a scene on Lost Garden at two in the morning, watched it back four times, and felt nothing wrong with it. The isolation that comes with AI filmmaking is not about working alone in a room. It is about losing the other person whose job was to tell you when a shot doesn’t…

The recently concluded Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Films has set up a dedicated category for AIGC imagery for the first time, receiving 2038 submissions within just one month. Works such as Tales of the Paper Blade in the Wasteland and Hot Blooded Dachen Island have been successively launched on iQiyi, Tencent Video and Youku…

For years, Hashem Al-Ghaili had ideas for films he could not make. Bringing them to life would have required Hollywood-level budgets, major studios, large production teams and people willing to invest in his ideas.

Explore filmmaking careers, training pathways and opportunities for students in Nagaland amid India’s growing film industry.

Yash Raj Films (YRF) and Google will co-host an AI filmmaking workshop for India’s filmmaking and creative community on 4 August at YRF Studios.

Australia’s Film Lab: New Voices initiative has unveiled the three emerging filmmaking teams in contention for a lucrative production award.