Help Promote the First GenAI Interactive Short Film

Hi folks,

My second GenAI interactive short film, Albert’s Riddle, was a finalist for the top award at the Seoul International AI Film Festival and won Gold —and I am asking for your financial support to bring this bold, boundary-pushing interactive logic puzzle to additional audiences around the globe.

Blending my imagination with my narrative voice, and wielding the power of the magic wand of AI ✨, I created Albert’s Riddle, an immersive, audience-driven experience set at the turn of the twentieth-century Munich, Germany.

Inspired by the genius of Albert Einstein, the film imagines his life as an imperfect student who reminisces about the lost joy of childhood discovery. The story explores curiosity, space, time, light, energy, and their interconnectivity. Layered by the profound compositions of Grieg, Beethoven, Satie, Saint-Saëns, and Liszt, it’s a cinematic meditation for the passionately curious.

While I’m fortunate to have invested my own resources into creating this film, the journey ahead—travel, promotion, submissions, and visibility—requires support far beyond one person and my budget as an independent AI filmmaker. Every dollar you give helps Albert’s Riddle reach new audiences through festival entries, filmmaker appearances, and promotional materials that bring this philosophical story to the world stage.

I’m raising $10,000 over the next four months to support:

• Marketing and promotional materials to help the film reach wider audiences around the globe

• Festival submission fees ranging from $20 to $250 per category, including entries to The Venice Film Festival, Sundance, the British Film Festival, and The New York and Hamptons Film Festivals, which are BAFTA and Academy Award qualifying.

• Festival Travel Expenses - for future screenings and filmmaker panels

Your support helps bring Albert’s Riddle to the world—at the intersection of cinema, technology, and creative reinvention.

This may be the world's first GenAI interactive film!

I’ll share festival updates, behind-the-scenes glimpses, and moments from the journey so you can follow along every step of the way.

Thank you for supporting my new adventures as a generative AI interactive filmmaker—and for reminding me (and others) that you’re never too old to turn over a new leaf (whether it’s real or artificial).

With deep appreciation,

Bradley Jefferson