Filmmakers whose films were chosen to appear in the 2025 Seattle AI Film Festival.
Abraham Dawod is a Canadian-Egyptian filmmaker and assistant director based in Toronto. He grew up in Mississauga, Ontario where he began making films at age 17 and continues to write, direct and produce his own short films.
Two soulmates relive the same story in every era: they meet, they love, they lose. Director Statement I've been itching to get a crew together and make a film for a while but a crazy year of work has made that a hard task. I started playing around with Midjourney and other tools on the weekends just to scratch that creative itch. They're limiting as hell, but I wanted to try and craft a compelling story around those limitations. AI characters can't do backflips but boy can they stare dramatically. 3 months later, this is the final product. The most interesting part of this to me is the fact that every stage of filmmaking was happening simultaneously. Writing, storyboarding, "production", post, etc. I often had to make rewrites based on technical limitations just like any other film, but I could go back in and retroactively change anything at any time, down to a minor facial expression. Perhaps it's similar to animation. There's not yet a significant market for AI films. But with limited resources it can be a great creative exercise, or used as a proof-of-concept. Director Biography - Abraham Dawod Abraham Dawod is a Canadian-Egyptian filmmaker and assistant director based in Toronto. He grew up in Mississauga, Ontario where he began making films at age 17 and continues to write, direct and produce his own short films.