AI-Generated Feature *Dreams of Violets* Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival

The 75-minute docudrama *Dreams of Violets* will debut on June 10 at the AMC Flat Iron Theatre in New York as part of the Tribeca Film Festival’s official program. Directed and produced by brothers Ash and Pooya Koosha, the film is billed as the first full-length feature created entirely with artificial-intelligence models to be accepted into a major festival’s main slate.

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*Dreams of Violets* dramatizes a fictional January 2026 massacre of Iranian civilians by regime forces, a narrative the creators say could not have been realized without AI because they lack physical access to Iran. The Koosha brothers, who left Iran in 2009, used journalistic reports, photographs and eyewitness accounts as source material, then generated all visual and vocal elements with AI. The project illustrates how emerging technology can bypass traditional production constraints for storytellers in exile.

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• Ash Koosha – Director, voice performer, and co-founder of Fountain 0, a UK-based AI company launched to produce AI-generated films.

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• Pooya Koosha – Co-producer, co-founder of Fountain 0, and former founder of the cloud-AI personalization firm Claigrid (executive chairman: former NBC Cable president Tom Rogers).

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• Fountain 0 – Utilized a suite of AI tools: Google Nanobanana for imagery and core frames, Kling AI for video generation, Claude AI for language editing, and Google Gemini for research.

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• Jane Rosenthal – Co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, who highlighted the festival’s history of supporting boundary-pushing artists.

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• Runtime: 75 minutes.

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• Budget: Approximately US $2,000.

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• Production timeline: Three months.

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• All actors, sets, cameras and even the script’s initial voicing were generated by AI models; human input was limited to directing, blocking and final creative decisions.

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Tribeca co-founder Jane Rosenthal said the festival’s selection reflects its commitment to “artists who push the boundaries of storytelling” and that the film offers a “rare and intimate perspective” on a conflict that is otherwise difficult to depict. Ash Koosha emphasized that the project was not a “technological exercise” but a necessity born of exile and lack of access to on-the-ground resources. Pooya Koosha framed the technology as a solution to the financial barriers faced by independent filmmakers, acknowledging that the prospect of AI-driven production “will understandably bring chills down the spine of many in Hollywood.”

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• “The Tribeca Festival has long championed artists who push the boundaries of storytelling and explore new creative frontiers. Dreams of Violets from first-time filmmakers Ash and Pooya Koosha is a powerful example of how emerging technologies like AI can be used not simply as tools of innovation, but as vehicles for deeply human storytelling,” — Jane Rosenthal, Tribeca Festival co-founder

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• “I would have preferred to make this film with a crew, with actors, with the dignity of a full production.” — Ash Koosha, Director

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• “The AI pipeline made it possible to do what would otherwise have been impossible: to create a memorial film for an event that happened behind a wall I cannot cross,” Koosha wrote.” — Ash Koosha, Director

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• “However, for the many independent filmmakers, and would be independent filmmakers, whose biggest barrier is access to money to make their films, Fountian 0 technology solves for the financial barriers they face.” — Pooya Koosha, Co-founder, Fountain 0

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• “Having been deeply involved for a number of years in how AI could be utilized and tamed at the highest and most sophisticated levels, I realized our video production techniques were way ahead of the rest of the marketplace. I also realized that our ability for each subsequent film to improve on our AI production techniques is an enormous opportunity for Fountain 0 to exploit.” — Pooya Koosha, Co-founder, Fountain 0

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Fountain 0 plans to expand its AI pipeline to additional feature films and television series, positioning the technology as a cost-effective alternative for independent creators who lack traditional financing. The Tribeca premiere positions *Dreams of Violets* as a proof-of-concept for a broader shift toward AI-mediated storytelling in the industry.

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