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How an Outsider Won Runway's Top AI Prize
The premiere episode of the AIography Podcast is up. I sat down with Robert Gaudette. He's a 54-year-old nonprofit worker from Toronto. He never went to film school. And he just won the top prize at Runway's AI Grand Prix with his film "A Face Only a Mother Could Love." Here's what got me. The film has real heart. It moves people. That's the one thing everyone says AI can't do, and Robert did it anyway. We talked through how he actually built it, start to finish. His workflow. The "subtext block" he puts in his prompts. How he pushed past the imposter feeling that hits all of us. And why he still believes story comes first, even now. If you've been stuck at "where do I even begin," this is the one to watch. Robert started exactly where you are. Link to Interview Link to Robert's film "A Face Only A Mother Could Love." Watch it, then drop one thing that surprised you in the comments.
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Welcome to AIography 👋 Read This First 🚨
Before you jump in, there’s one important thing to understand about this community. AIography exists to explore how AI is reshaping filmmaking, storytelling, and creative workflows from script to screen. This is a place for learning, sharing experiments, asking smart questions, and helping each other navigate a rapidly changing creative landscape. To help keep the signal high and reduce spam, posting is unlocked once you reach Level 2. You’ll get there quickly by engaging in discussions, reacting to posts, and participating thoughtfully. What this community is NOT: - A place to pitch “make money” schemes - A place to drop affiliate links, funnels, or cold offers - A place to self-promote unrelated products or services If your first instinct after joining is to sell something, this is not the right room for you. What is encouraged: - Thoughtful discussion around AI tools and workflows - Sharing work in context (what you tried, what worked, what didn’t) - Helping others learn and think more clearly about AI and creativity - Genuine collaboration and curiosity Promotion may be allowed later and in the right context, but it is never the starting point here. Posts or comments that ignore this will be removed. Repeated behavior will result in removal from the community — no drama, no warnings loop. We’re here to build understanding and craft, not noise. If that sounds like your mindset, you’re in exactly the right place. If not, it’s better to know that now. — Larry
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🚀 Founding Members Is Now Open — $29/Month, Locked In For Life
I just posted something I've been working on for a while, a video that explains exactly what AIography is, where it's going, and why I built it. The short version: I've spent 40 years editing at Warner Brothers, Sony, Disney, HBO, and Netflix. I was there when Avid replaced film. I consulted on Final Cut Pro before it had a name. Every time a transformative technology hit, I watched the same thing happen: everyone focused on the shiny new thing and forgot about the craft. It's happening again with AI. And almost nobody is talking about story. That's what this community is about. 🎬 Watch the video below. If what I'm saying resonates, I'm now offering a Founding Member tier for $29/month, or pay annually and get two months free. Locked in for life. Full access to everything I'm building: courses, live workshops, Lumarka early access, and direct access to me. This window won't stay open forever. Head to the Classroom and hit the Founding Member upgrade. Then come back here and introduce yourself. I want to know who's in the room.
🚀 Founding Members Is Now Open — $29/Month, Locked In For Life
AI is getting a Hollywood address
Three stories crossed my desk this week. Two are about Hollywood making room for AI. The third is about a new model and a reminder to read the fine print. 1. Culver City is turning into an AI studio town. The LA Times counts a cluster of AI filmmaking companies moving in: Promise, TrueShort, Native Foreign, PhantomX, and Luma AI, which took a 7,000-square-foot space for its Dream Lab. Promise works hybrid: real actors on real soundstages, with AI handling backgrounds, visual effects and synthetic humans. Not "push a button, get a movie." Real crews, new tools. (The unions are watching closely, and they should be.) 2. AI studios now have a manager. Variety is reporting that former UTA agent Dante DeSario launched Collage, a management and investment company that walks AI-first studios through the guilds, the studios, and the copyright questions. Clients include Asteria, Native Foreign, Promise, and Jason Zada's Secret Level. When Hollywood builds representation for something, it has decided that it's real. And his word for what separates the good ones? Taste. 3. A fast, free video model... with a catch. Hao AI Lab released FastH3 Omni, a sped-up version of MiniMax's H3 model. Feed it reference images, clips and a voice, and it gives you video with sound, up to about 12x faster than the original by their own numbers. It already works in ComfyUI. Everyone called it "open." Here's the thing: the license on the model doesn't cover the US, the UK, the EU or South Korea. If you're here, you have to ask MiniMax for permission first. Read the license before the benchmark. Notice Native Foreign shows up in the first two stories. The buildings and the business side landed in the same week, here in LA. Where it goes from here... we'll see.
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