Flick

Flick handles AI. You direct Stories. Watch the films 👉 https://t.co/0mEGWFkvrY

Flick is an AI filmmaking tool aimed at directors and visual storytellers who want shot-level control rather than one-off clip generation. The product is built around an infinite canvas where users upload or generate text, images, and video as connected nodes, integrating multiple models so filmmakers can work in scripts, characters, and scenes through a chat-to-create interface . Editing tools live directly on the canvas so creators can move back and forth while building shots , and a Studio section publishes AI films and behind-the-scenes workflows as reusable templates, with Perplexity integrated for searching classic film references . This launch pairs a $6M seed round with the premiere of the first Flick Residency Film Series, 13 films from 14 filmmakers produced entirely on the platform, which is the company's argument that its workflow holds up across a slate of finished work rather than demo reels. Earlier short films made with Flick have collected more than 20 awards at international film festivals, and the early creator residency has been producing several AI shorts per week . Flick also positions itself as software for making complete short films rather than eight-second social clips . The company was founded by Zoey Zhang and Rui Cromwell. Zhang has worked as a filmmaker since 2013, graduated from Brown and RISD, and her past work includes commercials for Mercedes-Benz, an award-winning documentary, and a collaboration with cinematographer Thierry Arbogast (Léon), with her AI filmmaking research published at SIGGRAPH 2025 . Cromwell was a founding engineer on the Instagram AI team who helped build and launch the first version of Instagram Stories and wrote most of its backend code in its first year . The seed round is backed by True Ventures, GV, and Y Combinator , and Hollywood editor and USC School of Cinematic Arts professor John Rosenberg, whose credits include work at 20th Century Fox, Orion, and New Line with films that premiered at Sundance, has joined as an advisor .

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