Runway’s LA film festival marked an inflection point for AI movies

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The 2nd Annual International AI Film Festival (AIFF), which took place in Downtown Los Angeles on May 1st, marked a pivotal moment for generative AI’s Hollywood integration. 

The showcase, which was produced by New York City-headquartered generative AI video startup Runway, also included partnership support from the well-established Tribeca Film Festival and Geneva International Film Festival (GIFF). 

More than 400 producers, animators, actors, and directors packed the invite-only premiere at the Orpheum Theater not in protest — but to fully embrace what their peers created with Runway’s AI models (Gen-1 and Gen-2) and other AI tools, as well as more traditional filmmaking techniques. The collective experience at times had the crowd ...