On Friday, the Tribeca Festival and OpenAI announced a program to debut five original short films, marking the first time films made using OpenAI’s text-to-video AI model Sora will be showcased at a festival. Sora can make video clips up to one minute in length, a revolutionary advancement. It’s still in private testing, but Open AI has been gradually opening it up to more filmmakers.
Just last month we took a deep dive into filmmaker Paul Trillo’s new music video,"The Hardest Part," created entirely using Sora AI. By giving filmmakers access to Sora’s capabilities, this initiative explores the developing space of generative AI as a creative tool. The group of award-winning filmmakers are Tribeca Festival alumni. In the spirit of exploration, like Trillo, they were only given a few weeks make their AI films. “Tribeca is rooted in the foundational belief that storytelling inspires change.