On June 15, the Tribeca Festival will debut “Sora Shorts,” a collection of five artificial intelligence-generated short films, in partnership with OpenAI. This is the first festival that OpenAI’s text-to-video tool, Sora, will be showcased at.
According to a statement from the festival, the filmmakers, who are all festival alumni, have promised to abide by the AI-related conditions set forth by the previous year’s agreements with filmmakers, actors, and writers in the film business. They were asked to finish their ideas in a matter of weeks and were provided with training on OpenAI’s tools, early access to Sora, and the autonomy to autonomously construct their videos.
Tribeca Enterprises cofounder and CEO Jane Rosenthal stated that “stories come to us as a feature film, an immersive experience, a piece of art, or even an AI-generated short film. I can’t wait to see what this group of fiercely creative Tribeca alumni come up with.”
In February, OpenAI unveiled Sora, a tool designed to “understand and simulate the physical world in motion.” Although the program isn’t publicly available yet, OpenAI says it can turn text into films that are up to a minute long.
At first, some Hollywood veterans perceived it as a danger. Filmmaker Tyler Perry was so impressed with Sora’s potential that he decided to shelve plans for a $800 million studio expansion. But since then, artists who have had access to Sora claim that it has improved their process of creation. They can express abstract ideas more effectively and create novel visuals for topics. They also don’t feel interchangeable.
