MOBILE, Ala. (WALA) – The Tribeca Festival is premiering its first fully AI-generated movie.
“Dreams of Violets” is a docudrama inspired by real events, but with no human actors on screen. The film is being promoted as an example of how emerging technologies like artificial intelligence can be used in entertainment.
To make it, the director used Anthropic’s Claude for language editing, Google’s Gemini for research and Kling AI for video generation.
Its debut at Tribeca may be a first for a fully AI-generated movie, but it almost certainly won’t be the last.
AI is also making headlines in Hollywood through a reported $600 million deal between Netflix and Ben Affleck. In 2022, Affleck quietly co-founded a startup called InterPositive. There was no splashy launch, just a small team working on a specific problem.
That problem is not making movies with AI. It’s fixing them.
When a film wraps a day of shooting, the raw clips are fed into InterPositive’s system. The AI studies the footage, learns the look of the film and then goes to work. Inconsistent lighting between shots can be corrected. A prop that mysteriously moved between takes can be fixed. A missing frame that might have stalled an editor can be generated.
The technology is not replacing directors, actors or editors. It is handling tedious cleanup and cutting production time, potentially saving studios significant money. Netflix appears to have decided the savings are worth the investment.
At the same time “Dreams of Violets” is showing how AI can originate a movie from scratch, InterPositive is showing how the technology can help make human-made movies faster, cheaper and cleaner.
They are two different approaches and two different visions, but they share one underlying message: the tools are here.
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