Alex Naghavi
Alex Naghavi brings design and visual storytelling to AI filmmaking. Le Drip, co-directed with Ezra Li, follows a fish's final day through the texture and movement of oil paintings. The short took second place at the Reply AI Film Festival 2026, recognising a collaboration that turns a small life into a rich visual world.
Anne Horel
Anne Horel combines digital collage and AI moving images in stories about identity. Her short The Shadows Weaver (La Tisseuse d'Ombres) received the Press Prize at the World A.I. Film Festival 2026 and Best Use of AI at Artefact AI Film Festival 2026. Its journey through reflections and doubles asks how individuality survives a world of classification.
Erika Zorzi
Erika Zorzi is one half of Mathery, the directing duo she forms with Matteo Sangalli. Their short Where Knights Fall reimagines Rapunzel through surreal humour and unexpected art direction. Credited to both filmmakers, it won Silver in Film at Runway's 2026 AI Festival, bringing their playful visual approach into the expanding world of AI cinema.
Junie Lau
Junie Lau works between London and Shanghai, exploring identity and imagined worlds through film. Her 2024 short e^(iπ) + 1 = 0 won Best Film at the AIFA Awards 2025. Tribeca also featured Dear Stranger in its 2025 programme about filmmaking with Google Flow, highlighting her interest in new tools for visual storytelling.
Maddie Hong
Maddie Hong combines creative technology with a close attention to human storytelling. Her short Emergence follows a small creature's final moments after seventeen years underground, finding emotion in its brief time in the light. The film received a Merit award at Runway's 2025 AI Film Festival, showing how an intimate natural story can become a memorable screen experience.
Gisele Tong
Gisele Tong won Best Short Film at the inaugural Reply AI Film Festival in 2024 with To Dear Me. The film follows a young woman confronting painful memories and learning to value herself. Using AI production tools for an intimate story, Tong places women's emotional lives and the possibility of change at the centre.
Rachel Maclean
Rachel Maclean uses AI to explore authorship, identity and power. Her film DUCK was Highly Commended at the AIFA Awards 2025. In 2026, They've Got Your Eyes brought her performances together with models trained on her image and artistic archive. The new work premiered at FACT Liverpool, co-commissioned with Sonica Glasgow, extending her distinctive approach to moving images.
Wenhui Lim / niceaunties
Wenhui Lim, known as niceaunties, places older women at the centre of surreal digital worlds. Her Auntieverse explores care, food, beauty and everyday life. Goddess, a four-part video work created in September 2024, uses the story of a divine visitor to reflect on domestic labour, memory and the women whose work often goes unseen.