Michał Owerczuk has shared his AI-assisted short film Broken Arrow publicly on LinkedIn and YouTube following a two-month run on the festival circuit. Produced last fall as his second self-produced AI-assisted short, the project was built frame by frame and iteration by iteration, with Massimo Benvegnú consulting on the story.
Since early December, the film has won five awards, including two at non-AI festivals. It was named a finalist three times and earned official selections across festivals in South Korea, Australia, Thailand, Europe, New York City, Portland, and São Paulo. Owerczuk credited Machine Cinema and collaborators for encouraging him to submit the project when he initially hesitated due to doubts about tool maturity and narrative strength, as well as fear of backlash.
Owerczuk noted that behind the surface of social media feeds, AI filmmaking involves sleepless nights, sixteen- to eighteen-hour days, prototyping pipelines, stress-testing identity consistency, designing motion systems, and pushing long-form narrative. He emphasized that the work relies on process rather than prompts or gimmicks.
After six months, Owerczuk remarked that Broken Arrow is already technologically outdated, observing, “That’s the world we’re in now.” He also announced that he has completed a 15-minute horror piece featuring three long takes and invisible cuts, with plans already underway for an even larger project.
Original source: LinkedIn.
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