Call sheets are almost locked. You still need a previs board the DP can mark up, and a temp cut so the editor can feel the rhythm before day one. Someone suggests “just generate it.” Five model subscriptions later, you have tabs open, a credit card balance you cannot explain, and no continuous take that […]
Can a film tell its story without a single line of dialogue? That was one of the questions I wanted to explore when I began making Persian Gulf (2026). The film is a 4-minute-31-second, dialogue-free short film made in Iran, combining visual storytelling, original music and AI-assisted filmmaking. It follows a journey that begins with […]
Microdrama has grown from a $500 million market in China in 2021 to a global category worth $1.4 billion in 2024, forecast to reach $10 billion by 2030, and localizing that content across languages while keeping a character’s voice recognizable is now a core production problem, not an afterthought. The 2026 standard for this specific […]
Creatify built its entire product around one specific workflow: paste a product URL, and get a short-form UGC-style video ad back, fast, without filming. invideo Agent is built around a broader job, holding a project’s context, characters, and product references across an entire production, where a single ad is one output among many rather than […]
When people hear about AI in the film industry, they almost always think of AI stealing the jobs of screenwriters. As a writer, I tried using AI for writing out of curiosity, but the results it produced did not feel threatening to me at all. AI is not imaginative or creative. But it can be […]
In my history at Raindance Film Festival, which began in 1992, I’ve witnessed multiple revolutions in how films are made, shown, and valued. Back then, everything was celluloid. If you wanted to screen a film, you needed reels, projectors, trained projectionists, and physical infrastructure. Filmmaking was expensive, slow, and tightly controlled. Access was limited. Gatekeepers […]
Creative identity has become a north star guiding creatives through a maze of emerging technologies that leave non-technical professionals confused. One can no longer rely solely on artistic style or narrative voice, as the media industry is growing at a pace never predicted and raising new concerns. Now the question has gone beyond whether technology […]
Monsters, machina, and mummys – horror tropes with a bit of a relevant twist. As spooky season creept up on us, we hosted a ScreamDance “Rise of the Machine” Horror short film competition. We asked for original and creative one-minute films that make you wanna scream – thrillers, horrors, and everything in between. The Winner […]
Monsters, machina and mummys – horror tropes with a bit of a relevant twist. As spooky season creeps up on us, we’re hosting a ScreamDance “Rise of the Machine” Horror short film competition. We’re looking for original and creative one-minute films that make you wanna scream – thrillers, horrors, and everything in between. We want […]
In 2016, I hosted a week-long writing seminar in Japan. One of the participants was a 74-year-old screenwriter who had written 51 Yakuza films. One of his scripts had even been bought by Quentin Tarantino and became the basis for Kill Bill [2003]. At the end of the week, I asked him what makes a […]
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