From the festival circuit
Wonder Studios’ The Trials gives an alien challenge a personal stake through the bond between a grieving girl and an injured cheetah. The film runs 32:29 and won the London AI Movie Awards’ Best Feature category. Hal Watmough’s earlier animated short LATE also joins the catalogue, with first place from Curious Refuge’s animation competition.
Mateo AI Studio and MBC C&I announce a November 25 South Korean theatrical opening for Raphael. The Korean Film Council’s account of a seven-person team using Kling AI and Photoshop points to the work of keeping characters consistent across a feature. In Cottbus, programmer Joshua Jádi described an enthusiastic audience at one screening of A Woman Asleep. The film’s entry now records that firsthand account alongside its festival dates.
Episodes and shorts
S.A.V’s Exile Protocol reaches Episode 9, Reckoning. The maker says the 21-minute episode took about three weeks of solo production. For The Record opens with a reconstruction of the Vilet Torrez case that identifies its generated performers as invented likenesses. Gossip Goblin’s Grieving Freshies uses a vertical frame to hold a distressed figure between two suited escorts. Samyaza Speaks has posted an Obliteration Episode 2 teaser, with the complete episode still forthcoming.
Four music videos
ClaudiaGI turns her reply to Quentin into a public performance in Pas calculé. DotPockett’s The Words You Never Said takes the quieter route, letting hesitation and small gestures tell a story between recurring characters. JeffTriesThings reports using 44 shots and one recurring protagonist for an original-song video. Kelly Boesch’s Christmas With Myself places a solitary holiday song in a snow-covered village.
Directing the pause before a line
Monique Pryce describes prompting three details in a scene from her Beethoven feature: Karl tosses a quill, turns toward Beethoven and delivers his line as a dry question. Pryce says she chose the take for how believable that reaction felt. The disclosure gives a practical example of directing behaviour between lines. She confirmed the feature is still in production.