Type one sentence — and ~10 minutes later you get a voiced, subtitled, 9:16 short film for a few dollars of compute. An autonomous showrunner on Qwen Cloud, with one human approval gate before any money is spent.
Inspiration
AI video tools render first and fix later — burning the most expensive step over and over. A real production locks the script and storyboard on paper first, then shoots once. We built that.
What it does
- Trends → loglines: a live ribbon of trending topics, refreshed hourly, rewritten by the model into film ideas.
- Writes the screenplay (
qwen3.7-max), plans every shot (qwen3.7-plus). - Critic-before-render: a director-critic loop rewrites weak shots while everything is still text — ~$0.002 a round instead of ~$1 a re-render.
- Paints the storyboard (
qwen-image-2.0-pro); a series bible keeps characters consistent across shots. - Approval gate: redraw any frame with a note, reorder, drop — the only human step, before a single video credit is spent. The Film-it button shows the real price.
- Films, voices, cuts: each approved still becomes a happyhorse-1.1-i2v clip, every line gets a voice (
qwen3-tts-flash), ffmpeg cuts the film — with a caption and hashtags ready to post. - Cost ledger: every API call is metered; the price on the premiere screen is the real total, not an estimate.
How we built it
A zero-framework Python service on Alibaba Function Compute drives the whole pipeline over DashScope. One glass page: composer → live studio stream (script → board → critic → storyboard) → premiere.
Challenges
- Image moderation false-positives ("hug") → G-rated symbolic staging; still blocked → shown honestly with a Regenerate button.
- The video model can "succeed" with an all-black clip → an ffmpeg luma guard catches it, retries once, then refuses honestly.
- Voice longer than its 5s clip → the cut holds the shot until the line finishes.
What's next
Shareable per-film pages, music/SFX bed, and a series mode with recurring characters.Type one sentence — and ~10 minutes later you get a voiced, subtitled, 9:16 short film for a few dollars of compute. An autonomous showrunner on Qwen Cloud, with one human approval gate before any money is spent.
Inspiration
AI video tools render first and fix later — burning the most expensive step over and over. A real production locks the script and storyboard on paper first, then shoots once. We built that.
What it does
- Trends → loglines: a live ribbon of trending topics, refreshed hourly, rewritten by the model into film ideas.
- Writes the screenplay (
qwen3.7-max), plans every shot (qwen3.7-plus). - Critic-before-render: a director-critic loop rewrites weak shots while everything is still text — ~$0.002 a round instead of ~$1 a re-render.
- Paints the storyboard (
qwen-image-2.0-pro); a series bible keeps characters consistent across shots. - Approval gate: redraw any frame with a note, reorder, drop — the only human step, before a single video credit is spent. The Film-it button shows the real price.
- Films, voices, cuts: each approved still becomes a happyhorse-1.1-i2v clip, every line gets a voice (
qwen3-tts-flash), ffmpeg cuts the film — with a caption and hashtags ready to post. - Cost ledger: every API call is metered; the price on the premiere screen is the real total, not an estimate.
How we built it
A zero-framework Python service on Alibaba Function Compute drives the whole pipeline over DashScope. One glass page: composer → live studio stream (script → board → critic → storyboard) → premiere.
Challenges
- Image moderation false-positives ("hug") → G-rated symbolic staging; still blocked → shown honestly with a Regenerate button.
- The video model can "succeed" with an all-black clip → an ffmpeg luma guard catches it, retries once, then refuses honestly.
- Voice longer than its 5s clip → the cut holds the shot until the line finishes.
What's next
Shareable per-film pages, music/SFX bed, and a series mode with recurring characters.
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