Cinema Without Budget: AI Filmmaking for Everyone

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Session 274

Monday, 6 July 2026 ∼ 14:00–14:45 (UTC+02:00) Physical (on-site) and Virtual (remote) participation Innovation Hub, ITU Montbrillant Building Interactive Session

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Physical (on-site) and Virtual (remote) participation

The next great film hasn't been made yet. Make it.

For the first time in history, making a film does not require a camera, a crew, or a studio. It requires a story and the knowledge of how to tell it. This session gives you that knowledge.

Over one hour, you will get a complete, hands-on introduction to AI filmmaking. You will learn how the best AI films are made today, which tools exist and what each one is built for, how to write prompts that turn your imagination into visuals, how to think about cinematography and storyboarding, and how to put it all together into a clean, optimized workflow from first idea to finished film.

This is not a talk about where cinema is heading. This is a room where you learn to build it yourself, with your own hands, today.

No prior experience required. No equipment needed. Just bring the story you have always wanted to tell.

Mr. Bharat Parmar AI Filmmaker LocalhostHQ, India Moderator

Every director has an origin story. Mine started at 14, a travel photographer who couldn't stop thinking in frames. Then dance taught me rhythm. Then Disco Diffusion cracked the door open in 2021, and I kicked it off its hinges. No film school. No gatekeepers. Just the obsessive conviction that the tools didn't matter as much as the eye behind them.

The work is the argument. AMRIT dragged a Himachali Folklore story into the light , shot on pure instinct and relentless iteration and walked away with Best AI Horror Film at the Chroma Awards and Best Cinematography Mumbai AI Film Festival. ANHAD wove Indian mythology into deep space and landed on national television, won Best Storytelling at the India AI Film Festival, Best Short film at AI square awards and took Best AI Non-Commercial Film at Good Ads Matter 2026.
STRT just won Best Sound Design at Cannes.

I don't chase festivals but when the work is honest, the rooms find you.
XSNRG was never just a studio. It's a statement that India's untold stories deserve the highest production language available, and that a director with vision doesn't need permission to build something world-class. I'm not waiting for the industry to catch up. I'm already three films ahead.

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