# District 9 director Neill Blomkamp releases first short film made entirely with AI video generation

> Source: <https://the-decoder.com/district-9-director-neill-blomkamp-releases-first-short-film-made-entirely-with-ai-video-generation/>
> Published: 2026-07-20 17:32:41+00:00

"District 9" director Neill Blomkamp has released "Nightborne," a 13-minute sci-fi horror short generated entirely with the Seedance 2.0 video model. Blomkamp directed frame by frame through text prompts and founded a new AI film studio, Barley Studios, to produce a full-length feature next.

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