The Tribeca Film Festival is gearing up for the artificial intelligence takeover this year, dedicating an entire section to films created by OpenAI’s Sora.
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On Friday, the Tribeca Film Festival announced it will host Sora Shorts, a series of films produced by artificial intelligence text-to-video models. To that end, the festival has hired five filmmakers to create original films using an artificial intelligence-based app, which was announced back in February but has yet to be released.
Only a handful of Red Team members and visual artists have gained access so far, so this group of filmmakers joins a small group of insiders. The latest batch of filmmakers include nanny Director Nikyatu Jusu and actor Bonnie Disepolo (fire nation, Shazam! wrath of the gods). Other filmmakers on the list include Ellie Foumbi (our father, the devil), Reza Sixso Safai (Mario Valdez Story) and Michaela Trnaski-Holland.
While generative AI has already been used in major films – and not without controversy – this will be the first time Sora has been used in a film screened at the festival. Tribeca Enterprises co-founder and CEO Jane Rosenthal said in a statement to the media that “human beings need stories” to understand the world around us.
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“Sometimes, these stories come to us in the form of feature films, immersive experiences, artworks, or even short films generated by artificial intelligence,” Rosenthal said. in her statement. “I can’t wait to see what this incredibly creative group of Tribeca alumni come up with.”
One of the things that sets Sora apart from currently available AI models is the ability to produce videos of up to 60 seconds, surpassing other models that are limited to 6-8 second clips – although Google’s Veo (also unreleased) claims to be able to produce videos of this length Same thing. Additionally, Sora-generated videos can contain multiple shots but do not contain audio of any kind, including dialogue. Sora reportedly has controls in place so it cannot depict any sex or violence.
If you want to see what artificial intelligence models are currently capable of, check out the music video for “The Hardest Part” by artist Washed Up. This is very frustrating, to say the least.
The Tribeca Film Festival is taking place in New York from June 5th to 16th, so it’ll be interesting to see how these filmmakers use Sora for real filmmaking.
