October 2026 Film Cohort

Enroll in the October Film Cohort

A four-week AI filmmaking intensive. Four Saturdays. Twenty seats.

Starts Saturday, October 3, 2026 · 1:00–4:00 PM
Sessions Oct 3, 10, 17 & 24 · Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs
Join us in person in Atlanta, or live online from anywhere.

This cohort has one goal: to take the films you're making with AI and level them up to an elite film industry professional standard. Not "good for AI" — good, period. Cinematography, story, edit, sound, grade: the craft decisions working film professionals make, applied to AI-generated footage.

You'll learn from working film industry professionals — including guest lecturers who make commercials at Meta and are building the largest AI film project ever attempted. You'll finish with a piece of film work finished to a professional standard: a short film, a commercial spec, or a music video.

You make film work every week. You bring it to class, and the room critiques it — your peers and working film professionals both. That part is not optional, and it's the part that works.

Tuition is $800, paid in full. Your payment is your seat.

There is no waiting list and no acceptance step — the twenty seats go to the first twenty people who enroll. Enrollment closes Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM — the moment Session 1 begins. When the seats are gone or the clock runs out, that's it.
Not sure yet? Come meet us first — Film Bar AI is free, every Tuesday, 6–10 PM at Halidom Eatery. Walk in, say hi, decide later.

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Session 1 is Saturday, October 3, 1:00–4:00 PM at the Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs. Bring your laptop, charged.

Before then, come meet the room — Film Bar AI is free, every Tuesday, 6–10 PM at Halidom Eatery.

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The next cohort is the Winter 2027 Jobs Cohort — January 2027, exact dates to be scheduled. Come to Film Bar AI on a Tuesday and tell us you want a seat, or join the WhatsApp group and we'll announce the dates there first.

Enrollment is closed

The October Film Cohort began Saturday, October 3 at 1:00 PM, and enrollment closed with it. Nothing has been charged.

The next cohort is the Winter 2027 Jobs Cohort — January 2027, exact dates to be scheduled. Come to Film Bar AI on a Tuesday and tell us you want a seat, or join the WhatsApp group and we'll announce the dates there first.

The cohort calendar

Where we are, and what's next

  1. Jul 18 – Sep 5, 2026 In session now

    Summer 2026 Jobs Cohort

    Currently running — eight Saturdays focused on AI industry careers: a polished résumé, a matching LinkedIn profile, a portfolio website, salary negotiation, and interview preparation. Enrollment for this cohort is closed.

  2. January 2027 · Exact dates to be scheduled Up after that

    Winter 2027 Jobs Cohort

    The next jobs cohort — AI industry careers, résumé to interview prep. Dates will be announced; join the WhatsApp community and we'll tell you there first.

Who you'll learn from

Your teachers

Darion D'Anjou, co-founder of AI MAKERS GENERATION

Darion D'Anjou

Co-Founder · Writer / Director

Darion D'Anjou is an award-winning writer and director whose science-fiction short Pony screened and won awards at festivals in Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, London, and Berlin, and whose one-take horror short Mommy has drawn over 1.8 million views online. As a visual effects trainer at Digital Domain — the studio founded by James Cameron — he contributed to Academy Award– and Emmy-nominated productions including Spider-Man: No Way Home, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and HBO's The Last of Us. His studio has delivered creative work for CNN, HBO, Disney, Marvel Studios, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Nike. Darion now serves as a generative AI artist for Meta, where his generations were featured by Mark Zuckerberg during the 2025 debut of Meta Vibes.

Gheri Thomas, co-founder of AI MAKERS GENERATION

Gheri Thomas

Co-Founder · Commercial Filmmaker

Gheri Thomas makes commercials at Meta's Creative X — brand film work crafted with generative AI for one of the largest companies in the world, where the bar is set by global campaigns and the turnaround is measured in days, not months. That experience — world-class commercial filmmaking, delivered with AI at professional speed — is exactly what this cohort teaches. A classically trained artist with a B.F.A. from the Savannah College of Art and Design, she brings a decade of visual craft to every frame: composition, color, styling, and the art direction that separates a professional spot from a pretty clip. Through the Gheri Thomas Collective, her philosophy is simple: creativity isn't just practiced, it's pushed to its edges.

Guest lecturers

Steffin Flickinger, guest lecturer

Steffin Flickinger

AI Filmmaker · Series Creator

Creator of the serialized AI film series American Book of the Dead, whose chapters draw audiences in the tens of thousands. Working across short films, series, and features, Steffin shows what one filmmaker with total command of the AI toolchain can put on screen — atmosphere, dread, and story rhythm that hold up against traditionally produced work.

Halania Renee Dixon, guest lecturer

Halania Renee Dixon

AI Filmmaker · Creative Technologist

Halania has shot concert videos for celebrity music artists — including R&B star Lloyd — filming where the pressure is highest and there are no second takes. Her cinematic AI commercial work — Coca-Cola, Starbucks, and OLLY spots taken from concept to final grade by one creator — has made her one of the most watched AI filmmakers in Atlanta.

Reginald Cineus, guest lecturer

Reginald Cineus

Director · Cinematographer

A festival-winning director and cinematographer and the owner of Cineus Studios, Reginald currently works at Meta and at 30 Ninjas on the largest AI film project to date — directed by Doug Liman, the director of The Bourne Identity and Edge of Tomorrow. Few people alive have seen AI filmmaking at that scale from the inside; he lectures from the frontier.

Julius Jones, guest lecturer

Julius Jones

Cinematographer · Colorist

An Atlanta cinematographer and colorist whose grades give film work its finish — the difference between footage and cinema. His short-film work moves fast and looks expensive, and he helped carry the AI short tulsa.ai to Best VFX at the 2025 Atlanta 48 Hour Film Project.

Read this before you pay

Requirements you must meet

This is a hands-on production cohort. You must supply your own tools. AIMG does not provide laptops, software, licenses, subscriptions, or internet access, and does not have loaner machines. If you cannot meet these requirements, please do not enroll — come to a free Film Bar AI Tuesday instead and talk to us first.

1 · Your own computer, powerful enough to do the work

You will run professional creative software: DaVinci Resolve, Blender, the Adobe Creative Suite, Higgsfield, and similar tools. These are demanding programs. A machine that only browses the web will not work, and you will not be able to complete the coursework on one.

Meets the requirement

  • Mac — Apple silicon (M1 or newer) with 16 GB unified memory or more. An 8 GB M1 will struggle badly in Blender and Resolve.
  • Windows — Intel Core i7 (10th gen or newer) or AMD Ryzen 7, 16 GB RAM minimum (32 GB recommended), and a dedicated GPU with at least 6 GB of VRAM — an NVIDIA RTX 3060 or better.
  • Both — a 512 GB SSD with at least 100 GB free, a current OS (macOS 14+ / Windows 11), and a reliable internet connection. Several of our tools are cloud-based.

Does not meet the requirement

  • Chromebooks
  • iPads, tablets, and phones
  • Laptops with integrated graphics only, and no dedicated GPU (most budget and ultra-thin Windows laptops)
  • Any machine with 8 GB of RAM or less

Unsure whether your laptop qualifies? Bring it to a Film Bar AI Tuesday and we'll look at it with you, for free, before you spend anything.

2 · Your own software and subscriptions

DaVinci Resolve and Blender are free. Adobe Creative Cloud, Higgsfield, and any other paid tool are your responsibility, at your own cost. Tuition does not include software, licenses, subscriptions, cloud credits, or hardware.

3 · Attendance, and what happens if you miss a Saturday

You are required to attend all four Saturday sessions — October 3, 10, 17, and 24, 1:00–4:00 PM — whether you join us in person in Atlanta or live online. In a four-week intensive every session carries double weight. If you miss one, a recording of that session will be made available to you, and you remain responsible for completing and submitting that week's assignment on time. Recordings are a backstop, not a substitute — the critique happens live, and it is the part that works.

Online participants are responsible for having a reliable internet connection good enough to join the live sessions, share their work, and take part in the critique. AIMG does not provide internet access, and connection problems on your end do not entitle you to a refund, a make-up session, or an extension.

Missing sessions does not entitle you to a refund, a make-up session, an extension, or a transfer to a later cohort.

4 · Tuition and refunds

Tuition is $800, paid in full at the time you enroll. We do not accept deposits, partial payments, or installments, and paying is what reserves your seat — there is no acceptance step. Enrollment closes Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 1:00 PM, when Session 1 begins.

Because seats are capped at twenty and your payment takes one out of the room, tuition is non-refundable once the cohort begins on October 3, 2026. Before that date, contact us and we will consider a refund at our discretion.

Your seat is personal to you and non-transferable. It is tied to the person who applied and paid. If you pay and then cannot attend — for any reason, including illness, injury, work, travel, or an emergency — you may not send someone else in your place, sell your seat, gift it, or let another person use it. A seat cannot be shared between two people, and payment by one person does not entitle anyone else to attend.

AIMG is not responsible for your inability to complete the coursework as a result of inadequate, incompatible, or malfunctioning equipment, missing software, or loss of internet access. The cohort prepares you to produce film work to a professional standard; it does not guarantee a job, a placement, distribution, festival acceptance, or any particular income.

5 · Confidentiality, ownership, and mutual protection

Enrolling buys you a personal license to learn from this program — not a license to copy, resell, or repackage it, and not a license to take what is shared with you and use it against the people who shared it. By paying, you agree to the terms below. They are a condition of your enrollment and they survive in perpetuity — they continue indefinitely and forever, with no expiration date, and remain binding on you after the cohort ends, after you withdraw, and for all time thereafter.

  • The curriculum is ours. Every workshop, worksheet, template, prompt, workflow, slide, recording, and piece of instruction is the exclusive intellectual property of AI MAKERS GENERATION and D'Anjou, Inc. You receive a limited, personal, non-transferable license to use it for your own learning and your own creative work. You may not sell it, republish it, repackage it, teach it as your own, feed it into a competing course, product, or model, or share it with anyone outside the cohort.
  • Only AIMG records. You may not audio-record, video-record, screen-record, live-stream, photograph slides, or otherwise capture any session or private channel without AIMG's prior written permission. AIMG records sessions only so enrolled students can catch up; those recordings are AIMG's property and are covered by these same terms.
  • What's shared in the room stays in the room. Sessions, chats, and group channels are a confidential space. Business ideas, unreleased techniques, pricing, financials, contacts, personal circumstances, and anything else the founders, guests, or other students share there are shared in confidence. You agree not to repeat, post, publish, forward, or otherwise disclose that information outside the cohort, and not to use it to compete with, solicit from, or cause harm to the founders, guests, or other students.
  • You will not use our own material against us. You agree not to take information, materials, recordings, or statements shared with you in this program and use them to disparage the founders or AIMG with false or misleading claims, to unfairly compete, or to cause deliberate harm. Nothing in these terms prevents you from sharing your own honest opinion of your experience, reporting unlawful conduct to the authorities, responding to a lawful subpoena, or exercising any right the law does not allow you to waive.
  • No promises. No guarantees. This program is educational and prepares you for AI-industry careers. It does not guarantee a job, a client, an interview, a placement, a specific income, or any particular outcome, and nothing said in a session, a chat, or this application is a promise of a result. Results other people achieved are theirs, not a prediction of yours.
  • If you break these terms, AIMG may remove you from the cohort and its channels without a refund, and may pursue any remedy the law allows — including a court order to stop the misuse, because some of this harm cannot be undone with money alone.

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia. If any single provision is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full force.

Section 1

About you

Section 2

Where you're starting from

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Section 3

Why

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Section 4

Logistics

Can you attend Saturdays, 1:00–4:00 PM, October 3 – 24?
Section 5

Acknowledgements

All eight are required. Read them — they are the terms of your enrollment.

October 2026 Film Cohort · tuition, paid in full
4 Saturdays · Oct 3 – 24 · RICE Center
$800

Payment is handled by Stripe. Your card details go straight to Stripe — AIMG never sees or stores them. You'll be taken to a secure Stripe page to pay.

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Protected information. Read this before you consent above.

What we collect.
Your name, contact details, and the answers you give above.
Why.
To enroll you, reserve your seat, and communicate with you about the cohort. That's it.
Who sees it.
AIMG staff involved in running the cohort. Nobody else.
What we never do.
We do not sell your information. We do not share it with advertisers. We do not add you to lists you didn't ask for.
Payment.
Your card details are collected and processed by Stripe on Stripe's own secure page. AIMG never sees, handles, or stores your card number. We keep a record that you paid, the amount, and Stripe's reference for it.
How it's stored.
In an access-controlled database with row-level security enabled. Not in a spreadsheet, and not in email.
How long.
Enrollment records are kept for 12 months after the cohort ends, then deleted. Payment records are kept as long as tax and accounting law requires.
Your rights.
Email us any time to see what we hold about you, correct it, or have it deleted. Including your photo release.

We take tuition exactly one way: by card, through the Stripe checkout at cohorts.aimakersgeneration.com. We never accept Zelle, Cash App, Venmo, wire transfers, or gift cards. We never ask for money in a DM, and we never ask for a deposit to hold a seat. If anyone contacts you asking you to pay another way, it is not us — please report it to us immediately.