Reuters: AI film school trains next generation of Hollywood moviemakers
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Reuters' Dawn Chmielewski spent time with Curious Refuge, the world's largest AI film academy that is part of Promise.
The story reports that over 10,000 students have taken a course or workshop with Curious Refuge, which now teaches in 11 languages across 170 countries. The piece follows students like visual effects veteran Michael Eng, who turned to the school to rebuild his skill set after being sidelined by the production slowdown, and Hungarian-born Petra Molnar, who had been shut out of art school and found her way into a career in advertising through the courses.
In the piece, Promise Co-founder and President Jamie Byrne explains that generative AI opens real creative ground, but technology alone is not enough. It needs skilled storytellers who know how to use it in ways that amplify human expression, and that is what the Curious Refuge acquisition is built around.
The partnership addresses three needs at once. It trains and develops new talent, giving the next generation the skills to shape what this kind of storytelling becomes. It supports the filmmakers, editors, writers and artists already working, who want to understand how these tools fit their craft, through hands-on training and workshops in an environment built to enhance human creativity rather than replace it. And it opens doors in an industry that has never been easy to enter, creating real opportunities for undiscovered creators and underrepresented voices.
Curious Refuge will keep educating and inspiring. Promise will provide the productions where those skills become a career.
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