Learn AI filmmaking as authorship, not automation, online with LABASAD

LABASAD’s Online Master in Cinematic & Audiovisual AI is a 12-month online programme in AI filmmaking. It teaches the whole of it from start to finish, with 17 courses across five modules, running from early ideation and pre-production through to character creation, world-building, motion, editing and sound to final delivery. A limited offering of 25 places is up for grabs in the November 2026 cohort, which is taught in English by a team of seasoned professionals. It’s suitable as much for designers and creatives with an eye on new skillsets, such as narrative and motion work, as it is for filmmakers interested in learning new tools and processes. “One of the biggest shifts is the ability to iterate with technology that used to require extensive resources to see a first draft,” explains the programme’s director, Fred Grinstein. “Filmmaking and video used to be less accessible to different brand and design teams at different stages of the process.” Moving image is now within reach of work that would once have stopped at a static image, first as previsualisation and increasingly as the finished thing. “This is definitionally one of the biggest paradigm shifts in visual media in recent and long memory,” he adds. A good deal of what the filmmaking discipline asks for is already familiar to a designer. Grinstein’s case is that a grounding in composition, visual hierarchy and cinematic language turns into an advantage the moment it meets tools that can iterate: “Having a command of those instincts becomes superpowered when you can now apply those to prompts and workflows to design worlds, to design experiences and to design narrative moments,” he notes, and he puts people arriving mid-career from another discipline in the same bracket. “I think brand and design people, by definition, are world builders,” he tells us. “The way that they imagine solutions for their clients is one of the biggest parts of our class: a world-building module.” The programme also covers building workflows around the image and video tools, which is where the client work sits: high volumes of personalisation, localisation and variation, a lot of it in short-form video.