Info in Movie News | Google and Range Media Partners are joining forces to introduce a new and very innovative film project. They have united to launch AI On Screen which is an undertaking that is designed to revolutionize the way short films are created and to delve into various aspects of technology such as the emotional and moral ones. The idea behind it is to collect filmmakers from different genres and to have them collaborate on films showing the interconnection that exists between human beings and robots.
According to Variety, the two companies will spend the next 18 months developing, financing, and producing these short films. The ultimate goal is to greenlight two of them into full-length features. Google and Range have jointly termed the phenomenon as an all-encompassing collection of solutions meant for the reinvigoration of young and talented directors and storytellers in the age of the ever-increasing and rapid growth of AI. Thus, it is really important to have a large number of different creative voices, as the penetration of AI in our lives is inevitable.
Range CEO, Peter Micelli, declared that the collaboration was the best chance to deliver fearless narratives. "In the fast-paced world of entertainment, where the story called the shots, Google happened to be the creator of the right environment for various filmmakers to convert their gigantic creative dreams into reality," he pointed out. AI On Screen was described by Mira Lane, the senior director of technology and society at Google, as the logical flow of Google's dedication to creativity and tech-driven storytelling.
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Being full of interest and energy about being creative is definitely a lot of fun, but there are still a few questions that may be a little bit bothering; one of these questions is about the possibility of the AI-based applications replacing the creators themselves in the movies. Not only the recent trend has AI been made capable of writing and producing the script, but it also has become the creator of the visual elements and even the controller of the action, and hence the deep fear of the automation was arisen. Still, in this program’s case, the emphasis seems to be on exploring AI through human storytelling, not on using AI to replace creatives. The vision is still driven by people, not machines.
The first two short films, Sweetwater and Lucid, are already in the pipeline. Sweetwater, written by Sean Douglas, follows a man who discovers a surprising AI connection while revisiting fan mail from his late, famous mother. Lucid, directed by Sammi Cohen (You Are So Not Invited to My Bar Mitzvah), tells the story of a couple who risk everything on a futuristic device that lets them escape into shared dreams.
Each and every movie displayed in the lineup will be brought exclusively by Rachel Douglas from Range Media. The entries are solely through agents and lawyers which directs the program mainly toward professionals with experience. If it were to make a mark, the AI On Screen thing would bring a completely different kind of film to the market, at the crossroads of technology and humanity.
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