Film Festival shows what he can do on the big screen

The use of artificial intelligence in movies is exploding. And a new film festival, now in its new year, is showing what this technology can do on the screen today.

The annual film festival he, organized by Runway, a company that specializes in video generated by him, began in New York on Thursday evening with ten short films from around the world making their debut on the big screen.

“Three years ago, this was such a crazy idea,” CEO told Runway Cristóbal Valenzuela in front of the crowd. “Today, millions of people are making billions of videos using tools we just dreamed of.”

The Film Festival itself has increased significantly since its debut in 2023. About 300 people showed films when it began for the first time, Valenzuela said, compared to about 6,000 appearances this year.

The one and a half hour lining extended to a series of creative styles and ambitious themes, with Jacob Alder’s total pixel space taking home the highest festival price. The 9-minute film and 28 seconds ask how many possible images or non-existent images in the digital space, and uses mathematics to calculate a colossal number. A stunning series of images, ranging from popular moments of life to those that completely bow to reality, gives viewers a brief appearance of what is there.

Meanwhile, Andrew Salter’s “Jailbird”, who kidnapped second place, chronicles the journey of a chicken-from Zog’s view-to a UK human prison to participate in a joint program. And “one”, a futuristic story by Ricardo Villavicencio and Edward Saatchi for the interplanetary journey, followed in third place.

The 10 films shown were the finalists chosen by the thousands featured at the Runway Film Festival this year. Shorts will also appear on shows held in Los Angeles and Paris next week.

How it is used and executed it is a factor that judges that they evaluate when determining the festival winners. But not every introduced movie was made completely using it. While the presentation criteria require each film to include the use of the video generated by it, there is no certain threshold, it means that some films can take a more “mixed media” approach, such as the combination of actors or real -life images and sounds generated by it.

“We are trying to encourage people to explore and experiment with it,” Valenzuela said in an interview before Thursday’s appearance.

Creating a coherent film using that generating is not easy ease. It can receive a long list of numerous guidelines and instructions, detailed to get a short scene to understand and appear in accordance.

However, the purpose of what this kind of technology can do has increased significantly since the Runway’s first film festival in 2023 – and Valenzuela says this is reflected in today’s submissions. While there are still boundaries, the video generated by it is becoming increasingly similar to life and realistic.

Runway encourages the use of his own tools for the films entered in its festival, but the creators are also allowed to be directed to other resources and tools while they unite films – and throughout the industry, tools they use to create videos that include text, image and/or audio stimulus have improved rapidly in recent years while becoming increasingly available.

“The way (this technology) has lived within the culture of the film and the media, and pop culture, has really accelerated,” said Joshua Glick, an associate professor of film and electronic arts at Barde College.

He adds that Runway’s film, which is among a small number of showcases aimed at the attention of it, arrives while companies in this space are looking for “legitimacy and recognition” set up for the tools they are creating, with the goal of partnerships in Hollywood as a result.

The presence of the one in Hollywood is already wide, and perhaps more stretched than many film movies. Beyond the “title capture” applications (and sometimes controversial) that big budget movies have made to “de-operate” actors or create attractive eye stunts, glick notes, this technology is often included in a post-manufacturing set, digital touches, and functioning backstage, such as money-solving.

Industry leaders constantly show how he can improve efficiency in the film -making process, allowing creators to perform a task that once took hours, for example, within minutes, and promote further innovation.

However, the rapid growth and adoption of it has also increased anxieties about growing technology, especially its implications for workers.

The international alliance of the theater phase employees representing the back-and-artsome workers in the SH.BA and Canada “embraced new technologies that improve the story,” said Vanessa Holtgrewe, International Vice President of IATSE, in an email statement. “But we have also been clear: it should not be used to undermine the rights or livelihoods of workers.”

IATSE and other unions have continued to meet with key studios and create provisions in efforts to provide guards about the use of it. Screen actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio artists have also been vocal about the defenses of its members, a key point in recent work.

For the Runway Film Festival, Valenzuela hopes to feature films involving videos generated by him can show what is possible-and how he says this technology can help, not hurt, creator in the work they do today.

“Natural is natural to be afraid of change … (but) it is important to understand what you can do with it,” Valenzuela said. Even the creation of films, he adds, was born “because of the scientific advances that were very unpleasant at the time for many.”