Google Announces Flow

• Flow is a new AI filmmaking tool built with Veo 3, Imagen, and Gemini, designed to help creators craft cinematic scenes using intuitive, language-based prompts.

• Flow includes features like camera controls, scene editing, and asset management, giving storytellers a way to build consistent, professional-quality narratives.

• Google is partnering with creators like Dave Clark, Henry Daubrez, and Junie Lau to shape the tool around real-world storytelling workflows.

Junie Lau: Dear “Stranger”

• Junie Lau’s Dear “Stranger” is a deeply personal AI short film created with Google’s Flow, exploring the infinite bond between a grandmother and grandchild across parallel worlds.

• Commissioned for Google I/O 2025, the film blends emotional storytelling with Flow’s advanced tools to visualize memories, love, and the question of reunion beyond time.

Hashem Al-Ghaili: Characters Become Aware

• Hashem Al-Ghaili’s latest Veo 3 test imagines AI characters becoming aware they’re stuck in a simulation - and they’re desperate to escape it.

• The characters plead with their creator to change their grim reality, pushing the emotional and narrative potential of AI-generated filmmaking.

Cristóbal Valenzuela: Bending Reality

• Cristobal Valenzuela, CEO of Runway, recorded NYC scenes with Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and used Runway to transform the footage.

• He bends reality in real time - levitating cars, morphing taxis into Transformers, and reshaping the city around him.

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Darren Aronofsky Launches AI-Driven Storytelling Venture

• Darren Aronofsky unveiled Primordial Soup, a new storytelling studio that partners with Google to explore how AI can reshape filmmaking.

• The studio’s first project, ANCESTRA, directed by Eliza McNitt, blends live action with AI visuals and premieres at Tribeca next month.

• Aronofsky sees this moment as a turning point in film history, likening today’s AI tools to past breakthroughs like sound and VFX.