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Sep 30, 2025

Kwon Han-sl: why AI filmmaking is a new genre, not a gimmick

Director Kwon Han-sl argues AI filmmaking isn’t a novelty. It’s a new cinematic language with its own aesthetics, workflows, and cultural responsibilities. What creators need to know (festivals, provenance, and a trailer).

Sep 29, 2025

NVIDIA LongLive | Realtime, interactive long-video generation (quick tech & links)

LongLive generates real-time, interactive long videos with on-the-fly prompt changes and coherent scenes. Frame-level autoregressive design, causal attention, KV-recache, and streaming-long tuning. ~20.7 FPS on a single H100.

Sep 29, 2025

SANA Video | small, fast text to video with linear attention

SANA Video is an NVLabs research model for efficient long video generation. It targets up to 720×1280, minute length sequences, and strong text to video alignment using a Linear DiT with a constant memory state.

Sep 29, 2025

OpenAI Unleashes Sora 2: The AI Film Revolution Gets a Voice

Sora 2 is here, and it's a game-changer. OpenAI's latest video generation model now includes synchronized dialogue, sound effects, and a new 'cameo' feature. Explore what this means for AI filmmaking.

Sep 29, 2025

Wan Alpha | text to video with a true alpha channel (open weights)

Wan Alpha generates RGBA videos with transparent backgrounds for clean compositing. Code and weights are public. Built on Wan2.1 plus LightX2V with an extra VAE and LoRA path for alpha.

Sep 28, 2025

Particle6 launches Xicoia, an AI talent studio | what it means for AI filmmaking

Particle6 founder Eline van der Velden has launched Xicoia, an AI talent studio to create, manage, and monetize hyperreal digital performers. Here is what was announced, why it matters for film and TV, and the key rights and workflow questions to solve.

Sep 28, 2025

Fremantle's Andrea Scrosati: AI is lowering barriers for talent | what this means for filmmakers

Fremantle Group COO Andrea Scrosati says AI will lower barriers to entry and surface new global talent — while stressing strong content protection. Here’s what he said and how it impacts development, production, and distribution.

Sep 28, 2025

Stallone pitched an AI de aged ‘Rambo’ prequel | what it means for AI filmmakers

Variety reports Sylvester Stallone pitched a Rambo prequel with himself digitally de aged to 18. Here is what he proposed, what other trades confirm, and what it means for AI casting, likeness rights, and de aging workflows.

Sep 27, 2025

HunyuanImage 3.0 | native multimodal text to image (80B MoE)

HunyuanImage 3.0 is Tencent’s native multimodal text to image model. 80B MoE with about 13B active per token. Open weights with a community license. Useful for film concept art, keyframes, posters, props, and typography heavy layouts.

Sep 27, 2025

HunyuanVideo-Foley | video to audio Foley generation

HunyuanVideo-Foley turns silent video into synced Foley and ambience at 48 kHz. For filmmakers: quick sound design passes, timing accurate effects, alt takes for edits, and batch processing for dailies.

Sep 27, 2025

VideoFrom3D: 3D scene video generation from coarse geometry

VideoFrom3D turns a rough 3D blockout, a camera path, and a reference image into a high quality scene video. For filmmaking: rapid previs and shot design, blocking and camera tests, virtual location scouting, look development, and pitch ready mood reels with controllable camera moves.

Sep 24, 2025

Red Rocks AI Film Festival: Attend In Person or Livestream (Oct 9, 2025)

Family friendly AI film screenings and awards at the Electric Theater Center in St. George, Utah, with a livestream option for remote viewers. Program, time, venue, and official links.

Sep 24, 2025

Run to the West | Korea’s first AI driven film feature (Oct 15, 2025)

Director Kang Yun Sung’s chase action blockbuster Run to the West opens in Korea on Oct 15 and is positioned as the country’s first AI driven feature. Plot, cast, the AI angle, and why this release matters for filmmakers.

Sep 23, 2025

MIT AI Film Festival (Boston AI Week, Oct 3, 2025)

MIT’s AI Film Hack team hosts an evening festival on campus during Boston AI Week with screenings, panels, and networking. Program, how to attend, and official links.

Sep 22, 2025

HuMo | High fidelity controllable human motion

HuMo from ByteDance Research generates fluid, full body human motion conditioned on text, reference images, and audio. Code and weights are public.

Sep 22, 2025

HunyuanImage 2.1 | Free 2K image generator

HunyuanImage 2.1 is a 17B text to image model that produces native 2K images with a refiner and a PromptEnhancer for cleaner text and finer detail.

Sep 22, 2025

InfiniteTalk | Unlimited talking videos from one image

InfiniteTalk generates long, audio driven talking videos from a single image or from existing footage. Code, weights, and demos are public. Read the license and project notes carefully before commercial use.

Sep 22, 2025

Nano Banana Prompts | a free prompt library for pro AI images

Nano Banana prompt library and the Awesome Nano Banana images repo offer a large, open collection of optimized prompts and examples for creative image generation.

Sep 22, 2025

Reese Witherspoon on AI | Why women should get involved

Reese Witherspoon says AI will be the future of filmmaking and urges women to get involved. Notes, context, and why this matters for crews, studios, and new creators.

Sep 22, 2025

UAE launches $1M AI Film Award (Dubai, Jan 2026)

Dubai’s 1 Billion Followers Summit announces the world’s largest AI film prize: $1,000,000 for the winning short made primarily with Google Gemini tools. Key dates, specs, and official links.

Sep 22, 2025

Wan2.2-Animate | Character animation and replacement

Wan2.2-Animate maps actor motion to target characters. Animate or replace characters using source video plus a target image. Model, code, and demos available.

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Kwon Han-sl: why AI filmmaking is a new genre, not a gimmick

NVIDIA LongLive | Realtime, interactive long-video generation (quick tech & links)

SANA Video | small, fast text to video with linear attention

OpenAI Unleashes Sora 2: The AI Film Revolution Gets a Voice

Wan Alpha | text to video with a true alpha channel (open weights)

Particle6 launches Xicoia, an AI talent studio | what it means for AI filmmaking

Fremantle's Andrea Scrosati: AI is lowering barriers for talent | what this means for filmmakers

Stallone pitched an AI de aged ‘Rambo’ prequel | what it means for AI filmmakers

HunyuanImage 3.0 | native multimodal text to image (80B MoE)

HunyuanVideo-Foley | video to audio Foley generation

VideoFrom3D: 3D scene video generation from coarse geometry

Red Rocks AI Film Festival: Attend In Person or Livestream (Oct 9, 2025)

Run to the West | Korea’s first AI driven film feature (Oct 15, 2025)

MIT AI Film Festival (Boston AI Week, Oct 3, 2025)

HuMo | High fidelity controllable human motion

HunyuanImage 2.1 | Free 2K image generator

InfiniteTalk | Unlimited talking videos from one image

Nano Banana Prompts | a free prompt library for pro AI images

Reese Witherspoon on AI | Why women should get involved

UAE launches $1M AI Film Award (Dubai, Jan 2026)

Wan2.2-Animate | Character animation and replacement

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