1980s genre pastiche, fantasy adventure and dark comedy
Ryan Lightbourn
A filmmaker using AI to make retro 1980s fantasy and science-fiction adventures, with their own music and serial releases.
- In the collection
- 1 film
- Watch now
- 1
- Festival awards
- 1
- Years
- 2026
- Last active
- 2 Nov 2026
Films
Why follow this filmmaker
Ryan Lightbourn’s channel is built around one consistent idea: AI-generated films that look and play like 1980s fantasy and science-fiction adventures. Black Thunder, Lumara’s 2026 Serenissima Award winner, is the longest of them, released both as a complete film and as six numbered parts, alongside a theme song and an excerpt whose music the channel credits to him.
Commercial context matters here: his channel also hosts Satoshi Sunrise (2026), titled as presented by MoonPay, which co-presents the Lumara festival. That earlier upload lists its models; they are not assumed to describe Black Thunder. No personal website or biography is established, and no social handle is added without a link from his own channel.