Future Film: What Runway Revealed
Last week, the Runway AI Festival packed Lincoln Center, and Future Film was there in force. It felt like an inflection point, both for the field and for our own community.
TONIGHT AT FUTURE FILM, we're talking through it all: what we saw, who we met, the conversations around the festival, and what it meant to finally get together face to face after more than a year of Tuesday night Zooms and Discord conversations.
The shorts made it clear this space has moved past experiments and tool demos. The question now isn't what the tech can do. It's what filmmakers, artists, and storytellers are starting to make with it.
Ron Howard said as much from the stage, treating AI not as a novelty but as the next chapter in filmmaking's long history of new tools. He predicted a new aesthetic emerging from it, one drawn from cinema but evolving on its own terms, though, as he put it, story is still king. When a filmmaker of his stature leans in, the rest of the industry is watching.
Tonight is the kind of conversation Future Film exists for: creative professionals making sense of how the work, the roles, and the opportunities are changing.
And the momentum is only building. We've got in-person hangs ahead in New York and LA, and the filmmaker whose short won this year's Grand Prix at Runway will be joining us next week for a live Q&A.
The force behind this space is building, and Future Film is building with it. Whether you were there, just joined the group, or are simply curious about what this moment means, we want to hear from you.
Come join the open conversation. See you tonight!