Reply AI Film Festival Unveils Jury Featuring ‘The Lion King’ Director Rob Minkoff, ‘Twilight’ Helmer Catherine Hardwicke and More
The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival — a competitive event dedicated to shorts made using AI that runs in tandem with the Venice Film Festival...
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- The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival — a competitive event dedicated to shorts made using AI that runs in tandem with the Venice Film Festival — has unveiled its selection and announced its prestigious jury headed by Italian Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores.
- The 10 works, produced using new technologies and AI tools, have been selected from 3,000 submissions from 76 countries.
- The winner of the event will be announced on Sept.
- Besides Salvatores, who won the 1991 international feature Oscar with “Mediterraneo” and who most recently directed 2024’s “Naples to New York,” the Reply AI jury panel comprises, among others, “The Lion King” director Rob Minkoff; “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke; London-based VFX supervisor Giacomo Mineo, whose credits include Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”; and veteran Hollywood executive Christina Lee Storm, a Netflix and DreamWorks alum who last year joined L.A.-based AI-native entertainment studio Secret Level as head of its new narrative studio; and Italy-based producer Nils Hartmann, who recently stepped down as EVP at Sky Studios Italy where he shepherded many renowned Italian TV series, including “Gomorrah.” Popular on Variety Besides a prize for the best AI short film overall, the jury will award two special prizes dedicated to works that stand out for their social impact and experimentation: one is the AI for Good Award, promoted in collaboration with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), that will go to the short film that most effectively reflects the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
What happened
The third edition of the Reply AI Film Festival — a competitive event dedicated to shorts made using AI that runs in tandem with the Venice Film Festival — has unveiled its selection and announced its prestigious jury headed by Italian Oscar winner Gabriele Salvatores. The 10 works, produced using new technologies and AI tools, have been selected from 3,000 submissions from 76 countries. The winner of the event will be announced on Sept. Besides Salvatores, who won the 1991 international feature Oscar with “Mediterraneo” and who most recently directed 2024’s “Naples to New York,” the Reply AI jury panel comprises, among others, “The Lion King” director Rob Minkoff; “Twilight” director Catherine Hardwicke; London-based VFX supervisor Giacomo Mineo, whose credits include Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”; and veteran Hollywood executive Christina Lee Storm, a Netflix and DreamWorks alum who last year joined L.A.-based AI-native entertainment studio Secret Level as head of its new narrative studio; and Italy-based producer Nils Hartmann, who recently stepped down as EVP at Sky Studios Italy where he shepherded many renowned Italian TV series, including “Gomorrah.” Popular on Variety...
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