Produced for just $2,000, Dreams of Violets is a project rooted in journalistic reports, photography, and eyewitness accounts, according to a recent press release. The film was developed by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, who emigrated from Iran in 2009. Pooya is a co-founder of the production company Fountain 0, while Ash serves as the company’s CEO.
Fountain 0 claims that Dreams of Violets marks the first full-length, live-action, AI-generated film to earn a spot in a major film festival’s official selection. While The Hollywood Reporter noted that the higher-budget AI film Hell Grind previously screened at Cannes, that screening was part of a side event rather than the primary program. The Koosha brothers utilized Google’s Nano Banana for imagery, Kling AI for video generation, and Anthropic’s Claude for language editing, per reports from The Hollywood Reporter.
“We fully understand the very genuine sensitivities of those individuals working in the movie industry, and like them we are worried what the unknown implications are for the livelihoods of many,” the Kooshas stated in their release. “But the reality is that this film never would have been made if it were not for the AI capabilities that we were able to develop.”
Dreams of Violets is scheduled to screen at the Tribeca Festival on June 10th.