OpenAI has signed a contract with the Tribeca Film Festival to showcase 5 shorts made using Sora, an artificial intelligence video engine.

Sora was announced on May 2, allowing you to create long-format clips of multi-shots from a single prompt.

The model is not yet open to the public, and OpenAI is focused on pushing it to the limit and improving its training data, leaving it in the hands of filmmakers and creators.

The Tribeca deal will see five filmmakers use Sora to create original shorts exclusively for the festival. It is not clear whether it must be made entirely of sora or whether sora can be used with traditional techniques.

The five creators who make Sola shorts for Tribeca are actor and film director Bonnie Discepolo, film director Ellie Foumbi, writer and director Nikyatu Jusu, genre-defying film director Reza Sikso Safai and Emmy award-winning director Michaela Ternasky-Holland.

Works made specifically for the Tribeca Festival are short films, not full productions, and will be screened on 6/15.

Each filmmaker was given only a few weeks to complete the project. This was to show the productivity gains that can be achieved by using AI tools in film production.

"Tribeca is rooted in a fundamental belief that storytelling inspires change. Humans need stories to thrive and understand the meaning of our wonderful and broken world," said Jane Rosenthal, co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Company "These stories can be brought to us as feature films, immersive experiences, works of art, and even short films produced by AI." I can't wait to see what this group of intensely creative Tribeca graduates will come up with.

Sora was announced by OpenAI in 2024/2. It is a trans-diffusion model that can produce long format (up to minutes) video clips with consistent characters and fluid movements.

Unlike other tools like Runway and Pika Labs, it allows you to create multiple shots from a single prompt, such as starting with a close-up of a character and cutting to a walking character. Other models tend to focus on single shots and create 3-second clips.

Due to the level of realism and the possibility of misuse, OpenAI is slowly rolling it out, starting with its own red team to test its boundaries, and then digital they are now expanding access to more mainstream and traditional filmmakers through Tribeca. Adobe is also likely to work with OpenAI to integrate sora into a future version of the company's flagship product, Premiere Pro video editing software.

This allows you to create a b-role in the timeline, or extend an existing clip if you didn't shoot a sequence long enough.

The use of artificial intelligence in the creative field is controversial. This can also have an impact on creative work, especially in visual effects, although there are concerns about the source of the data used to train the model.

However, the positive view on it is centered on the ability of more filmmakers to create more immersive works with less budgets and unleash their imagination in ways that were previously impossible.

AI can generate b-rolls, expand shots, and even create visual effects, and when combined with traditional filmmaking techniques, filmmakers can create blockbusters on an indie budget.

As part of this agreement, filmmakers were taught by OpenAI how to be able to create works using Sora and other AI tools. It also had to comply with rules negotiated last year by SAG and other unions regarding the use of AI.

This requires disclosure of the use of generative AI, including the writing process, copyright compliance, and authorization and licensing of reproductions of living creator voices and images.