Tech start up founder's entirely AI generated feature length film about the anti-government Iranian protests set to be shown at Tribeca Film Festival in New York

Trailer: https://youtu.be/KN9NDpikYeM

He’s also a technology entrepreneur, co-founding an AI start-up called Claigrid with his brother Pooya. In 2018, he developed an AI singer called Yona who wrote and performed her own music. “Back then it was super sci-fi.” He has also co-founded a studio, Fountain 0, to produce AI-generated films.

The script was not AI-generated, but he did use the chatbot Claude to improve the language and structure his thoughts. The genius of working with AI, he says, is that at any point a film-maker can change their mind, take the plot in an entirely different direction: “You just open another session. You don’t have to worry that you’re rewriting. You multiply your imagination until something hits the right spot.”

"Do you watch Rick and Morty? Sometimes I go so deep emotionally when Rick is regretful. But Rick doesn’t exist. We want Rick to exist because we have the same feelings. Pixar movies make me cry.”