AI filmmaking is steering industry conversation at Toronto International Film Festival, and CapCut is setting the pace.

TIFF: The Market is a new extension of @TIFF_NET where entertainment and innovation professionals shop what’s next in content. Check out CapCut’s #TIFF26# programming Sept. 13-14: 🟠 Selected screenings from the CapCut CRE[AI]TE AI Festival 🟠 Q&A with creators, moderated by Justin Hackney @WonderStudiosX 🟠 An industry panel with @ai_massive 🟠 A major upcoming project announcement Social and AI-driven content are now key players in an industry looking to capture attention; creators in these fields are naturally at the forefront. Meet us at The Market, or follow along here for updates throughout TIFF weekend.

The future of filmmaking is in creative hands. ✨ What an unforgettable celebration @austinaifilm ! From an inspiring masterclass with @PJaccetturo to hearing from incredible filmmakers about their creative journeys, we're proud to celebrate the voices pushing AI storytelling forward. We're especially proud that 12 of the festival's finalists and award-winning creators are part of our Dreamina Creative Partner Program. 🎁 To celebrate and support our filmmaking community, Dreamina is reimbursing 100% of the Dreamina credits spent on festival submissions for ALL CPP finalists who used Dreamina to create their films! To every creator with a story to tell — keep dreaming big. We'll help bring it to life. 💙 Here's to the next generation of filmmakers. 💙

A tip for AI filmmaking using Grok Imagine: Creating a full story with AI is vastly more complex than producing a trailer. To summarize: - What is difficult for a film shoot can be easy for AI. - What is easy for a director can be extremely difficult for AI. For example: During a film shoot, a director positions multiple cameras to capture each scene; during editing, they then cut between these different shots to make the scene dynamic and improve narrative clarity. With AI, however, you generate content second by second from a *single* viewpoint. You then need the AI ​​to recreate the exact same environment—including locations, objects, lighting, and people—but from a different angle. And believe me, getting that right can sometimes take days. This is where Grok Imagine shines: you can chat with Grok to explain exactly what you want in your own language. Grok then translates this into a prompt, making the process much easier. You can also use a dedicated Grok bot to assist you with the production process.

I've always seen filmmaking technique and form indestinguishable from content. They are one and the same, just like you can't separate words and sentences from the story in a novel. You can break them apart into elements, but that's schematics. The holistic effect is the thing.

I run a filmmaking collab society, and we're looking for scripts to potentially produce. If you have any collecting dust, we'd love to read them southcoastfcs@gmail.com Here is our FB page too