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Berlin // AI filmmaking lab

Put AI to the test.

Real projects. Honest results. No hype.

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SC 01Ways in

Three ways in.

Start with a meetup. No finished project needed.

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01Meetup

Come as you are

Show a clip or a half-finished thing, hear from working AI filmmakers, meet your next crew.

You leave withFeedback, fresh workflows and people to make the next thing with.

On the nightIntro · Keynote · WIP showcase · Mixer

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02Lab

Bring a real project

We take one real filmmaking problem and run it through a few AI approaches. Together.

You leave withUsable outputs and a clearer workflow.

Example themesConcept to pitch · Previs and look · Edit support · Sound and voice · Distribution

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03Workshop

Learn one workflow

One workflow, step by step, taught by a filmmaker or gen AI expert.

You leave withA repeatable process for your next project.

Example topicsImage generation · Video generation · Voice and dialogue · Editing with AI · Asset pipeline

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SC 02Approach

No hype.
We test.

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Real projects
Bring a scene, a pitch, a problem. We run it through the tools.
Honest results
What works, what breaks, what’s worth skipping.
Humans lead
Tools assist. Taste wins.

For you if

Story comes first.
You’re curious, and a little skeptical.
You’d rather test than debate.

SC 03The lab

The lab so far.

Started in August. By the third meetup, the room was full.

28 AugMeetup #1The first show & tell.
10 SepMeetup #2A talk on the importance of editing.
16 SepAI Filmmaking LabA full day of hands-on testing.
25 SepMeetup #3Full house, with a waitlist.

Two filmmakers present their work to the room, one holding up a laptop — Show & tell · Meetup #1

The audience watches the FILMAKERS.AI opening slide — Opening · Meetup #2

A full room of filmmakers follows a presentation — Full room · Meetup #2

Two filmmakers work something out together at a laptop — Hands on · Meetup #1

A speaker gives a talk titled The Importance of Editing — Talk · Meetup #2

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Partners

SC 04Origin

We’ve done this before.

We’re the AI lab of Filmmakers & Movie Nerds, the nonprofit community behind the Movie Sprint: crews formed on the spot, films finished in a weekend, premiered to a full house.

A Movie Sprint crew at work on set: performers, a camera operator on sticks, a boom operator and lights on stands — On set · Movie Sprint

A Movie Nerds community meetup — Meetup · Movie Nerds

A Movie Sprint audience in a cinema lit deep red — Screening · Movie Sprint

Movie Sprint filmmakers gathered on stage after the awards — Awards · Movie Sprint

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The big one

Filmhack

Europe’s first hybrid IRL AI × film challenge.

Nov 13–15, 2026
Filmuniversität Babelsberg
IRL · In person only
Free · 100 spots
Apply by Oct 24

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