Latvian filmmaker wins €400,000 Grand Prix at Kazakhstan's AI film festival
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Latvian filmmaker Nikolay Shestak has won the $450,000 (€401,000) Grand Prix at the first Astana AI Film Festival in Kazakhstan for his film The First Honest Day, created using artificial intelligence.
The First Honest Day explores how people's actions shape who they become, with bad deeds making its characters physically uglier and good deeds changing them for the better.
Shestak, who started directing around four years ago and began making films with AI two years ago, said he did not expect to win.
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Latvian filmmaker Nikolay Shestak has won the $450,000 (€401,000) Grand Prix at the first Astana AI Film Festival in Kazakhstan for his film The First Honest Day, created using artificial intelligence.
The First Honest Day explores how people's actions shape who they become, with bad deeds making its characters physically uglier and good deeds changing them for the better.
Shestak, who started directing around four years ago and began making films with AI two years ago, said he did not expect to win.