$2,000 AI film premieres at Tribeca

the tribeca festival will premiere dreams of violets, a 75-minute film produced for $2,000 using tools like google's nano banana, kling ai, and anthropic's claude. created by brothers pooya and ash koosha of fountain 0, the film dramatizes the iranian government's mass killing of civilians based on journalistic reports. while ai films have screened at side events like cannes, this is the first ai-generated live-action feature in a major festival's main program. the producers acknowledge industry concerns about job displacement but argue the film's creation was only possible through these capabilities.