YouTube and Variety are bringing Mark Vins and Ziwe to the Toronto International Film Festival’s new professional market, where the creator economy is beginning to speak the language of the industry openly.
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Automattic, the company led by WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg, produced Code for the People: The Human Story of the Open Web.
Ridley Scott is producing The Vesuvius Challenge, a documentary narrated by Guy Pearce about the project using X-rays and AI to read the Herculaneum scrolls.
With Synthetic Sincerity, Marc Isaacs uses a fake AI research project to strike at glossy documentary filmmaking: ordinary people disappear, and what remains are avatars and celebrities.
Dreams of Violets debuts at the 2026 Tribeca Festival: a live-action film generated with AI, 74-75 minutes long, with a reported budget of $2,000 and plenty of controversy.
At Visions du Réel 2026, Heat by Jacqueline Zünd arrives: a sensory documentary set in the Persian Gulf, where extreme heat becomes climate, class, and a human alarm.
2026. UFOs, Aliens. There's something curious that happens periodically throughout human history: every now and then, we start looking at the sky with suspicion again.
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