Creator Stories Jacopo Reale Generates Ninety Sheep to Find the One He Cuts In Jacopo Reale (@jacopo_reale) edited films for other directors for more than a decade. Since late 2024 he has been generating his own footage and cutting it the same way, from a viral AI reel to Love at First Sight, which won the 2025 Reply AI Film Festival in Venice.
Creator Stories Featured Brine: Matteo Bernardini’s First Film Made With AI Matteo Bernardini spent years on film sets with Christopher Nolan and Peter Greenaway. For his first AI film, a silent dark fairy tale called Brine, he wrote the script himself, shot-listed it like live action, and went through about 1,280 generations to get eight minutes.
Creator Stories Dorian & Daniel Started The Well in ComfyUI and Finished It in Kling Dorian & Daniel took years to make one five-and-a-half-minute AI short, and the tools changed three times while they were making it. It won Gold at Runway's 2026 festival, and the pair still refuse to be called AI filmmakers.
Creator Stories Robert Gaudette Threw Away the Shots Where Marcel Moved Wrong Robert Gaudette (@RobertGaudetteAI) won the Runway Grand Prix and the Reply AI Film Festival at Venice with an eight-minute film about a Parisian dancer. He got there by discarding technically perfect shots whenever the character moved in a way that wasn't his.
