US EditionFilm Festival Showcases What Artificial Intelligence Can Do on the Big Screen
- Runway held its third annual AI Film Festival on June 5, 2025, at New York's Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall, showcasing AI-generated short films.
- The festival's growth reflects Runway's origins at NYU’s ITP Lab and the surge in submissions from 300 in 2023 to 6,000 in 2025.
- Ten finalist films, including the 9-minute winner Total Pixel Space by Jacob Adler and runner-up Jailbird by Andrew Salter, featured varied AI usage and dreamlike aesthetics.
- Runway CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela said, “This year feels like a significant moment” as AI begins to alter cultural fabric and gain industry legitimacy.
- The event suggests AI’s expanding role in filmmaking, with industry unions seeking protections while creative practitioners embrace new tools amid ongoing shifts.
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The AI Film Festival promotes creativity and generates work tensions while opening the door for new ideas to redefine the boundaries of visual narrative and transform the industry
Runway’s AI Film Festival, On Hallowed Ground At New York’s Lincoln Center, Honors ‘Total Pixel Space’
Total Pixel Space, a hypnotic, essayistic 9-minute film by Jacob Adler, won top honors at the third annual AI Film Festival. Backed by Runway, the growing AI firm valued at more than $3 billion, the one-night festival unfolded Thursday at New York’s Lincoln Center. The setting, Alice Tully Hall, is hallowed ground for the film industry and cinephiles, having hosted the New York Film Festival and other events for decades. (An L.A. edition of th…
In New York City, on June 5, the AI Film Festival (AIFF) film festival was held for the third time. If 300 directors took part in the event in 2023, the organizers received 6,000 applications in 2025, writing Tech Xplore. "It was such a crazy idea three years ago," said Runway's CEO, Cristobal Valenzuela. "Today, millions of people are making billions of videos using tools we've only ever dreamed of." Runway specializes in creating generic model…
Hollywood is actively introducing artificial intelligence into film production, although many studios prefer not to advertise this, fearing lawsuits from industry representatives.
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