AI filmmaking, taught and shipped in one day.
A former Lucasfilm advisor and film-school dean teaches the craft in the morning. You make an AI short the same afternoon and watch it on the big screen that night. Application only.
Craft first. Story, shot design, and continuity, taught by people who shipped work at the top of the industry before the tools existed.
You build the same day, with engineers in the room. Crew match pairs artists with builders by hand.
Your short on the big screen that evening, in front of the room that helped make it.
Who teaches
We recruit the people who set the standard: a former Lucasfilm advisor, a film-school dean, and the frontier engineers building the tools the craft now runs on. Faculty for this event is confirmed in the invite.
Questions people ask
- Do I need filmmaking experience?
- No. The room is built for both halves: creatives rebuilding their craft for the AI era, and the engineers building the tools. No film background needed for builders, no AI experience needed for creatives.
- What does it cost?
- Membership in the society is free and always will be. Masterclasses charge a sliding-scale fee with sponsored scholarship seats, so cost is never what keeps someone out. The fee for this event goes out with the invite.
- How do I get in?
- Application only, and seats are limited by the room. Leave your email below and you hear first when applications open.
- What do I leave with?
- A finished AI short, screened. The people who helped you make it. And a read on which models actually hold up under production pressure, measured against the society’s open benchmark rather than a vendor’s demo reel.
- Where is it?
- San Francisco. The venue goes out with the invite, which is also how the start time is confirmed.
Get the invite.
Leave your email. You hear first when applications open, with the venue, the start time, and the faculty.