FESTIVALS/AWARDS
2026
OMNI: International AI Film Festival, Sydney Australial (Winner, BEST DOCUMENTARY)
Montelupo Fiorentino International Independent Film Festival (Winner, BEST AI FEATURE FILM)
Portugal Indie Film Festival (Winner, BEST AI FILM)
Cine Paris Film Festival (Winner, BEST AI FILM)
Film Art X (Nominee, BEST AI FILM)
Pittsburgh Independent Film Festival (Selected, AI FILM)
New Filmmakers New York (Selected, AI FILM)
Meta Morph AI Film Award (Shortlist, BEST AI FEATURE)
BAIFF - Burano Artificial Intelligence Film Festival (Selected, AI FILM)
NY Movie Awards (Silver Award, AI FILM)
Bali International AI Film Festival (Semi-Finalist, BEST AI FEATURE)
Artificial Intelligence Media Festival (AIMF) (Selected, NARRATIVE)
AI Film Awards - Las Vegas (Selected, AI LONG FORM)
Seoul International AI Film Festival (Selected, AI FILM)
Magica AI Festival (Selected, AI FILM)
New York International Film Awards™ (Finalist, BEST AI FILM)
USA International Film Awards™ (Finalist, BEST AI FILM)
Oniros Film Awards® - New York (Finalist, BEST AI FILM)
East Village New York Film Festival (Finalist, BEST AI FILM)
Amsterdam New Cinema Film Festival (Honorable Mention, BEST AI FEATURE)
Los Angeles AI Motion Picture Awards (Nominee, BEST Drama & Screenplay)
LA Film Awards (Semi-Finalist, BEST AI FILM)
Benjamin Robert Haydon was a titan of 19th-century British art, an obsessive historical painter whose life was a chaotic symphony of grand ambition and crushing debt.
A confidant to John Keats and a vocal antagonist of the Royal Academy, Haydon’s story is one of a visionary artist literally dying for his craft.
This film reimagines Haydon’s tragic arc through a contemporary, experimental lens.
By utilizing AI generated imagery and an original AI composed score, the production traces the artist’s obsessive pursuit of "the Grand Style"
and his eventual descent into madness. It is a vivid journey into the mind of a man who believed art was a matter of life and death—until it finally was.