MoonPay Brings AI Filmmaking to a Packed NYC Theater With the Lumara Film Festival

An AI film festival premiered award-winning generated films to a full house, nudging synthetic media toward cultural legitimacy.

AI-generated video spent the week proving it can pass as real online. @moonpay took it a step further, announcing the Lumara Film Festival, which premiered award-winning AI films to a packed movie theater in New York City. Moving synthetic media from the feed to the big screen is a small but meaningful bid for cultural legitimacy.

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