A New Generation of Filmmakers Is Here: 17 Original AI Films from Flick’s Summer Residency

What does the Love, Death & Robots look like when a new generation of filmmakers has generative AI at its disposal?

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Flick Filmmaker Residency Summer 2026 Cohort offers one possible answer.

The latest cohort brings together established storytellers from the traditional entertainment industry, including a former Disney screenwriter and Emmy Award-winning talent, alongside some of the most distinctive emerging voices in AI filmmaking. Together, they created a collection of original short films spanning science fiction, animation, surrealism, drama, and experimental cinema.

Flick Filmmaker Residency is a selective, two-month program supporting a small cohort of indie filmmakers as they create original films using Flick. The program is free to apply to and includes bi-weekly sessions, creative mentorship, free credits, and early access to new filmmaking tools.

Each resident leaves the program with a festival-ready short film and becomes part of the growing Flick Residency alumni network.

The program is already building a track record on the international festival circuit. Films from Flick’s Spring 2026 cohort have received Official Selections and awards at international film festivals, demonstrating that work created with emerging AI tools can stand on its own as cinema, not simply as a demonstration of the technology behind it.

Watch and Apply

The Summer 2026 Residency films are available to watch on Flick TV at flick.art/showroom.

Applications for the Fall 2026 Flick Filmmaker Residency are now open at flick.art/residency.

The Filmmaker Still Matters

The rapid development of generative video raises a larger question for cinema: if increasingly powerful models can produce beautiful images, what becomes valuable?

“Story matters. Editing matters. Performance matters. Sound matters. And above all, the filmmaker’s ability to make decisions matters,” said Zoey Zhang, Co-Founder of Flick.

The technology may be shared.

The films are not.

As generative tools become more powerful and more accessible, Flick believes the defining question of AI filmmaking will increasingly shift from what can the technology generate? to what does the filmmaker choose to do with it?

The Summer 2026 Residency offers an early glimpse of that future: not a collection of AI demos, but authentic stories shaped by the filmmakers behind them.

About Flick

Founded by Zoey Zhang and Ray Wang, Flick is an AI-native filmmaking platform built for creators who care about aesthetics, control, and creative flexibility. The product enables filmmakers to direct AI-generated films through non-linear workflows, cinematic controls, and iterative creative tools — bridging powerful generative models with real-world filmmaking. Flick also operates Flick Filmmaker Residency, an initiative to cultivate the next generation of AI-native filmmakers.

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