Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) – Official Trailer "Between the chaos of São Paulo, overdue bills, and the promise that AI should make everything faster, Bruno tries to keep functioning as his inner world begins to fall apart." Produced by @zero1cine originals

🇨🇦 Truly happy to share that Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) won not one, but 2 awards at Cinema Shift Festival in Toronto during its North American Premiere: 🏆 Best AI Narrative ❤️ Audience Choice Thanks to the organizers, audience, and everyone open to where cinema can go next.

Happy to see Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) finding its audience and AI filmmaking expanding in South America. The film received a Special Mention at Sticks n’ Festival in Montevideo 🇺🇾, recognized for craft and cinematography. More exciting news coming soon! ▶️ WATCH at zero1cine

▶️ Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) is here! A 15 min psychological drama based on real life events, set in São Paulo, made over 6 months and 8 script revisions. AI didn’t make it easier. It made it possible. I hope it will resonate with other AI creators. Full film 4K at @zero1cine

▶️ Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) is live! A 15 min psychological drama set in São Paulo, based on real life events, exploring burnout, AI, productivity culture, and the pressure to keep functioning. Directed by @oFaleco Watch the full in 4K at zero1cine.

Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) is only one month running on festivals, and we couldn't be excited with the positive reception from jury and festivals across the globe. 🔴 On-line Premiere: MAY 26 at zero1cine

Dropping today the official trailer of our new 15min short Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) 🔴 On-line Premiere MAY 26 at zero1cine and You Tube (link below)

Proud to share that my new short "Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) is starting its festival run: 🇨🇦 Finalist — Cinema Shift Festival 🇹🇭 Finalist — Bangkok Film Awards 🇺🇾 Official Selection — Sticks n’ Festival 🔴 Online Premiere: MAY 26 on @zero1cine @YouTube

First teaser of our new 15 min short "Sinuca de Bico (Cornered" written and directed by @oFaleco - produced by zero1cine originals and Nave Madre Brazil.

Including our friend @Martin_Haerlin talking more about this winner ✨ congrats!

The Community is real, you just need to go out there! Always glad to meet other creatives in person ✨🙌

RT @oFaleco: The existence of bad AI films does not make all AI films bad. Thank you.

"AI will never match human acting." I believed that too. Until Seedance 2 changed my mind with two outputs. I've tracked this tech closely since 2023. I've seen a lot. But when I got these first 2 outputs (not cherry-picked, literally the first two) I was truly impressed, and I could not believe my eyes. All I gave it: 2 images detailed text prompt in Brazilian Portuguese about the scene mood and dialog lines. No audio input. No video performance input. Pure Image-to-Video text prompt. As this reaches native 4K, I believe real shooting will be reserved only for very specific use cases. That's not pessimism, that's just watching the curve. The crazy part is that AI might actually make us crave even more for human experiences. We're already seeing it. Theater plays booming, live concerts selling out, analog rooms becoming coping mechanisms and spreading around the world. As media gets more and more saturated with AI-generated images/video/music (inevitable), real becomes rare. Rare becomes valuable. Ironically, AI may forces us to ask and reflect on what actually makes us human. My real fear isn't AI actors. It's the same pattern we saw in the Industrial Revolution. Technology that could free us, used by "the System" to monitor, control, and extract even more productivity from us, for the same salary or lower. The fact is that AI is a dubious revolution. It empowers us, but it will also be weaponized against us in many ways. Do you think AI will make live human experiences more valuable in the next 10 years? What's your take? Healthy discussions and arguments are all welcome. Thanks ByteDance @dreamina_ai for the early access.

🎬 Hailuo (MiniMax) x WAIFF - A Powerful Partnership for the Future of Visual Storytelling We're thrilled to announce that Hailuo (MiniMax) has become the official partner of the 2026 World AI Film Festival! Where cutting-edge technology meets the world’s most visionary creators, we are pushing the boundaries of AI-powered filmmaking. The future of visual storytelling has arrived. Join us on our Global Tour: 🇫🇷 Cannes | 🇧🇷 São Paulo | 🇯🇵 Kyoto | 🇰🇷 Seoul | 🇨🇳 Beijing

We are intensively working in the production of our new zero1cine originals AI short called Sinuca de Bico (Cornered) - a 15 min psychological drama - synopsis: Inspired by lived experience and shaped through fiction, Sinuca de Bico is a raw, personal short about the quiet panic many carry: the fear of not having a job, and the fear of losing one. Bruno moves through São Paulo with a body on autopilot and a mind that won’t rest. As the boundary between outer chaos and inner collapse thins, the film asks what it means to stay human inside a machine built for output, because now with AI everything should be faster.

The @runwayml 4.5 image to video is finally here!