Case study
3-day summitApr 10–12, 2026San Francisco1000 in the room
Soulscape 2026 — Global AI Film Summit
Soulscape 2026 was a three-day global AI film summit at KQED in San Francisco: a thousand attendees downstairs, two hundred filmmakers locked into a 48-hour Cinema Lab upstairs, and thirty-nine finished films at the end of it. Oscar winners and Hollywood executives took the stage; the event was covered by The Hollywood Reporter and KTVU Fox 2.
- attendees across three days
- 1,000
- applications for the room
- 2,000+
- filmmakers in the Cinema Lab
- 200
- films made in 48 hours
- 39
attendees across three days
applications for the room
filmmakers in the Cinema Lab
films made in 48 hours
What happened.
- Three days at KQED San Francisco, running a public summit downstairs and a closed 48-hour Cinema Lab upstairs at the same time.
- Two hundred filmmakers selected from over two thousand applications, shipping thirty-nine finished films inside the lab window.
- Oscar winners and Hollywood executives on the main stage, programmed alongside the AI tooling teams the films were made with.
- Press coverage from The Hollywood Reporter and KTVU Fox 2.
Press
The Hollywood Reporter · KTVU Fox 2
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