The AI Filmmaker
Summit
Europe's first dedicated gathering of filmmakers, animators, creators and storytellers building the future of entertainment with AI.
2 Days · 6+ Speakers · Practical Workshops · AI Film Screenings · 200 Creators
From the team behind the AI London Film Festival.
Founding Member passes are on sale until Sept 15. Standard passes are available until Oct 15 — secure the best price now.
The Industry Is Being Born
AI is not just another filmmaking tool. It is creating a new generation of creators, new forms of storytelling, and a new entertainment industry.
The AI Filmmaker Summit brings together the people shaping that future: filmmakers, animators, music-video creators, experimental artists, creative technologists, AI studios and toolmakers.
A gathering for the people making it.
AI Filmmakers
Directors and creators building original cinema with generative tools.
Animators
Artists pushing AI-assisted animation, motion and visual development.
Music Video Creators
Visual artists scoring sound with AI-native moving image.
Experimental Artists
Practitioners exploring the edges of synthetic media and form.
Creative Technologists
Builders crafting pipelines, models and creative tooling.
AI Storytellers
Writers and worldbuilders shaping narrative for AI-native screens.
Toolmakers & Studios
The platforms and studios defining the new production stack.
Why This Moment Matters
Filmmaking is becoming more democratic
Solo creators are producing work that once required entire studios.
New forms of storytelling are emerging
Generative pipelines unlock formats screens have never seen.
Creator-owned studios are becoming possible
Small, sovereign teams can compete with legacy production houses.
AI-native entertainment is its own industry
Not an add-on to film — a parallel medium with its own rules.
Speakers & Founding Voices
Our first speakers are pencilled in, with more leading voices from AI filmmaking, generative video, virtual performance and creative technology to be announced.
Mike Figgis
Director, writer and composer behind Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode, and a lifelong early adopter of new filmmaking technology.
Heather Mills
Senior Video Editor at Particle6, the UK AI production company behind Tilly Norwood, one of the world's first AI actresses.
Petra Molnar
London-based AI Animation Director and founder of AI CineLab. Petra will lead a show-and-tell workshop, walking through the animation work she's been making and the workflows behind it.
Ikenna Mokwe
London-based filmmaker and founder of OnGen Studio, an AI-native creative studio exploring new approaches to filmmaking with generative technology.
Zaeem Asad
London-based director working across commercials, independent film and emerging AI-driven filmmaking, with more than 60 commercial films for global brands.
Ryan Phillips
BAFTA-nominated director and pioneering AI filmmaker, known as @Uncanny_Harry, with two decades leading television production for the BBC.
Meet the studios and companies building the future of filmmaking
Presenting companies will lead practical sessions, demonstrations and case studies exploring the tools, workflows and new production models transforming filmmaking.
The Right Tool for the Right Scene: Building Original Stories in the AI Era
Wonder Studios presents a practical one-hour session exploring how filmmakers can choose and combine emerging AI tools while keeping storytelling, craft and creative judgement at the centre of the process.
The session combines an industry conversation with a practical showcase from Beyond the Loop, Wonder's creator-led film anthology, including clips and breakdowns showing how filmmakers took projects from concept to finished screen.
Featuring: Wonder Studios co-founders Xavier Collins and Justin Hackney, alongside filmmakers from Beyond the Loop.
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Building AI Characters: From Character Development to Generation
Particle6, the London production and AI entertainment studio behind Tilly Norwood, will take audiences inside the process of building an AI character for screen.
The session brings together both sides of Particle6's creative process. Heather Mills will explore character development — how personality, appearance, performance and creative direction are established — while a member of Particle6's development team will show how that creative vision is translated into prompts, generations and finished visual work.
Together, they'll demonstrate the journey from an initial character concept through to a consistent, screen-ready AI performance, including the creative and technical decisions made along the way.
Featuring: Heather Mills, Senior Video Editor at Particle6, alongside a member of Particle6's development team.
Visit Particle6A 2-day summit for the future of AI filmmaking
Two days of keynotes, show-and-tells and practical sessions drawn from the work of the filmmakers, directors and studios already confirmed. Expect cinema, animation, commercials, VFX and the production workflows that make them possible.
Keynotes on the future of AI cinema
Inside real AI production workflows
Animation show-and-tell sessions
From first idea to finished screen
AI commercials, music videos and branded content
AI VFX, production and the first feature-length AI films
Networking with filmmakers, studios and technologists
Full schedule and session titles to be announced.
Hosted at University of East London, Docklands Campus
A modern London campus with strong transport links, flexible event spaces and room for talks, breakout sessions, showcases and networking.
Secure Your Pass
Choose the tier that works for you. Prices increase as we get closer to the event.
- Full summit access
- Networking sessions
- Workshop sessions
- Priority seating
Built on a Real Filmmaker Community
The AI Filmmaker Summit grows out of the AI London Film Festival and a wider independent film festival ecosystem reaching thousands of filmmakers and creators around the world.
This is not a generic AI conference. It is a gathering for the people actually making films, animation, music videos and screen stories with AI.
Be Part of the First AI Filmmaker Summit
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Help Shape the Conversation
We are looking for speakers, creators and industry voices with practical experience in AI filmmaking, animation, generative video, virtual actors, AI-assisted production, creative workflows and new business models for AI-native entertainment.
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