Sacramento · Writers + AI Filmmakers · Open To The World
Most scripts never get made. Every month, Synthmovement hands one writer's 90-second short to a room full of AI filmmakers, and they compete to bring it to life. Writers bring the story. Builders bring their best take. No studio, no budget, no permission required.
One complete moment: a cold open, a confrontation, a twist. About a page and a half. No experience with AI needed.
Each month we pick one short and release it to our builders. Every one of them films the whole thing their own way: their tools, their style, their vision of your words.
Every version screens back to back at our Sacramento meetup, with the writer invited. The audience votes for Best Adaptation. You might see your story come to life four different ways in one night.
Every film here started as a script written by a person. AI rendered every frame, but no one changed a word. The next one could be yours.
You Own Your Story.
AI Is The Crew, Not The Writer.
You keep the copyright to everything you write. Every adaptation is filmed in full, never rewritten, and carries your name as the writer. We're here to put your words on screen, not to replace them.
Screenwriters, novelists, playwrights, people with a notebook full of scenes nobody has seen yet.
Filmmakers, animators, and tinkerers running Kling, ChatGPT, ComfyUI, or whatever pipeline you've built. You've got the tools. We've got the stories.
One complete moment with a beginning, a turn, and an end, in about a page and a half. Every month we choose one for the Scene Challenge, and our builders each bring the whole thing to life their own way. Nothing cut, nothing rewritten.
If yours is picked, we'll reach out before it's released to builders. Picked writers are invited to premiere night in Sacramento, in person or by video.
Example · a complete 90-second short
EXT. BUS STOP - NIGHT
Rain. MAYA (17) waits alone, clutching a
sealed envelope. Headlights sweep across
her face. She doesn't look up.
DRIVER (O.S.)
You getting on or not?
Maya looks at the envelope. Tears it in half.
MAYA
Not.
The bus pulls away. She smiles for the
first time.
No software needed. Scene heading, what we see, who speaks. That's the whole format.
For a century, getting a script made meant getting past gatekeepers: studios, budgets, people who decided whose stories were worth telling. Most writers never got through.
AI changes the math. A scene that once needed a crew of fifty can now be built by a handful of people who care about it. But the tools are nothing without the story.
Synthmovement is where writers and AI filmmakers find each other. We meet in Sacramento. We connect online. We make films, together.
"The story was always the hard part. Now it's the only part that matters."
Every builder's adaptation of this month's short, screened back to back. The writer's invited, the audience votes, and one takes Best Adaptation. Bring pages, bring questions, bring a friend who writes.
Get The Invite →Monthly session for storytellers. Share pages, get feedback, and sharpen the craft of telling a complete story in 90 seconds.
Join As A Writer →Builders share AI filmmaking workflows: tools, prompts, lessons. Writers welcome to watch how the sausage gets made.
Join As A Builder →Writers, builders, and the curious. Tell us which door you're walking through and we'll send you the right invite for the first meetup.