District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film made entirely with AI video generation

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District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film made entirely with AI video generation

The Decoder · Jul 20, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

"District 9" director Neill Blomkamp has released "Nightborne," a 13-minute sci-fi horror short generated entirely with the Seedance 2.0 video model. Blomkamp directed frame by frame through text prompts and founded a new AI film studio, Barley Studios, to produce a full-length feature next.…

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