From an idea I had this morning of a futuristic Praetorian Guard. A dystopian Rome of the far flung future. Would you watch it? Part HBO's Rome, mix in a little Gladiator, with a nod to Gossip Goblin and Hellraiser for inspiration. Made with Kling 4.0 in Runway. I will be doing a lot of work with this platform.

Using Kling 4.0 in Runway.

Quick one, but it's a big one. As of today, the AI Filmmakers Directory has a page built just for investors: https://aifilmmakersdirectory.com/pages/ai-film-investors Here's why I'm fired up about it. Until now, AIFD has been where producers, agencies and brands come to hire AI filmmakers. That's working. Jobs are coming in, members are getting booked, and one of our own just signed a studio deal off an intro that started right here. But hiring is only part of where the money is. Funds, angels, family offices, studios and streamers are putting serious money into AI film right now. I track it every week. And most of them have no idea where to find the creators and projects worth backing. So now we're showing them. What's on the page: Investor Watch, our weekly roundup of who's funding AI film. Public sources, every item linked. A free listing for investors, funds, studios and producers who want the right projects to find them. They can go public or stay anonymous. A first look at the AIFD IP Showcase (coming soon), where writers and IP owners will present their projects to producers and investors. What this means for you: Every investor, producer and business that lands on AIFD is one click from the search. Which means one click from your profile. The more of them we bring in, the more eyes on your work. That's the whole game. AIFD is becoming the place where the people with projects and the people with budgets actually meet. Now, the honest part. When those people search, Pro profiles show up first and show the most. If someone with a checkbook is scrolling, you want to be at the top, not on page 4. So here's what I'd do this week: 1. Get your profile "investor-ready." Real bio, your best reel, real credits. If it's half-empty, fix it now. 2. If you're not Pro yet, this is the moment. $150/year (or $24/month), right from your AIFD dashboard. 3. Own a script, a series, a world? Go to the page, fill out the form, and pick "IP owner / writer" to get on the IP Showcase waitlist early.

Higgsfield has free unlimited Wan 3.0 video (new) this month so I tried it with this simple prompt with images I created the other day. 1080p, 30 seconds, 9:16 6 five second tender scenes of each image of a couple in love. audio is a 1950s romantic cinematic movie score

So I was poking around AIFD this morning and saw something that made me grin. Gabriel Brien (who's pretty new here, by the way) has been quietly publishing blog posts on his profile. And not just one. Festival strategy for AI films. A history of filmmakers putting actors in places they never went. 10 prompting beliefs, tested. What California's new AI performer law actually requires. Plus a couple of news posts about his film Last One. Go look, it's legit: https://aifilmmakersdirectory.com/detail-page/gabriel-brien-crimson-spark-agency Nice work Gabriel. Seriously. Now here's why I'm telling the rest of you about it... Almost nobody does this. Which means whoever DOES do it stands out like crazy. Think about it from the hiring side for a sec. A producer lands on your profile. They see your reel. Cool. Everybody's got a reel. Then they see you wrote a breakdown of how you picked festivals for your film, or what actually happened when you tested a bunch of prompting "hacks." Now they're not guessing whether you know your stuff. You just showed them. Plus every post is another page Google and the AI search tools (ChatGPT, Perplexity, all those) can find. No posts = one way for people to find you. Ten posts = eleven ways. That's it. That's the whole secret. It's not complicated. BUT. One thing... Don't dump them all at once. I know, I know. You get excited, you write five posts over the weekend, you hit publish on all of them Sunday night. Feels productive. Here's the problem. You share them, they all show up at the same time, and they basically fight each other for attention. Then your profile goes quiet for two months and looks like nobody's home. Instead, do one a week. Maybe two if you're on a roll. Each one gets its own moment when you share it on LinkedIn or here in the group. Your profile always looks active. And you don't burn yourself out (which, let's be honest, is what usually happens).