The Seeker is the first Gen AI Film being Released for Sale on Worldwide Distribution Platforms
NEW YORK, NY – Stephan Bugaj, winner of last year’s Emmy Award for Outstanding Innovation in Emerging Media and Chief Creative Officer at Genvid, announces the commercial release of The Seeker, an emotionally compelling sci-fi film that was created using Generative AI for all visuals and music, and all but two of the voices.
This is the first time an Emmy Award-winner has created an entirely generative AI film, and is also the first time that a film made with generative AI has been made commercially available.
The Seeker Overview
In the film, a deep space “Seeker” who retrieves and sells the last artifacts of dead civilizations is visited by a mysterious Stranger, leading The Seeker on a path to discover the most valuable thing in the universe.
“I made The Seeker because I love philosophical sci-fi stories,” said Director Stephan Bugaj, “and Generative AI gave me a chance to make a movie, almost entirely by myself, on a budget I could afford without any outside financing, in that genre that otherwise almost never gets greenlit by studios.”
Stephan continues, “By lowering the cost and therefore risk of making credible looking films, the great opportunity AI provides for filmmakers is to take filmmaking power back into their own hands and tell stories beyond the over-broad blockbusters that become necessary when a huge budget needs to be recouped.”
The Seeker will be available soon through Amazon and Apple platforms. For those looking for immediate availability, The Seeker is available for sale today at $19.99 through Genvid’s direct channels at genvid.com
GenvidStudio-Grade AI Platform Launches, Partners with MASSIVE Studios
Genvid, which released last year’s hit title with Warner Brothers Discovery, DC Heroes United, and 2023’s Emmy Winning SILENT HILL: Ascension with Sony Pictures Core, is also announcing general availability of its new Studio-Grade AI Platform. The platform was built from the ground up for professional studios to build long-form content with AI video and is the first of its kind.
MASSIVE Studios—an AI-native production and production-services company—is partnering with Genvid to deploy a customized Studio-Grade platform, advancing the next generation of AI-driven film, television, and commercial production.
“Similar to CG studios in the late 80s and early 90s,” adds Genvid CEO Jacob Navok, “Those who experiment and build with AI technology now are poised to take the creative lead like Pixar, with MASSIVE Studio’s Alex Patrascu resembling John Lasseter in his work with the burgeoning craft.”
“At MASSIVE, we believe AI is a powerful engine,” says Co-Founder Reza Sixo Safai, “But it still needs human hands on the wheel. Creative judgment, ethical discernment, and thoughtful refinement remain essential to shaping work that truly resonates.”
Using Higgsfield AI with the GenvidStudio-Grade Platform
“Genvid has selected Higgsfield as its Generative AI platform not only for their market leading position, but because of there ability to innovate on top off all the important 3rd party models and best-in-class pricing strategy,” says Genvid CEO Jacob Navok. “Users of the Genvid Studio-Grade Platform are encouraged to bring their Higgsfield accounts to Genvid to power their content generation.”
“We are pleased to partner with Genvid on their journey to bring the power of GenAI to build next generation gaming content” said Alex Mashrabov, CEO of Higgsfield.
Higgsfield is an advanced AI-powered platform for creators, marketers, and businesses to generate high-quality, cinematic images and videos from text, images, or sketches, featuring tools for text-to-video, image editing, lip-syncing avatars, and advanced camera/VFX controls, making it easier to create ad-ready clips and social media content with cinematic motion and consistency. It integrates multiple leading AI models (like Sora 2, Veo3..) and offers creator-focused features such as character consistency (Higgsfield Soul), inpainting (Higgsfield Canvas), and lip-sync studios.
Building The Seeker with the Genvid Studio-Grade Platform
Compared to the equivalent cost of animation in past Genvid productions such as SILENT HILL, using the Genvid Studio-Grade platform, The Seeker took about 1/500th the cost to produce the equivalent animation within a game engine or standard animation workflow.
The Seeker also took less than 1/10th the number of iterations of most other AI short films and was produced for less than $2,000 worth of AI usage credits.
“There’s going to be an Oscar-winning GenAI film by 2029,” adds Stephan. “And creatives need to master working with these tools, or get left behind like all those who refused to learn CGI thirty years ago. GenAI isn’t going to eliminate jobs in film, TV, and games in the future– it already is doing so today. The workflows in the Genvid tool will make learning the craft and doing Oscar-worthy work a lot easier for filmmakers.”
Studios from 5 to 5,000 staff who expect pro-grade management processes for AI will find that the Genvid Studio-Grade platform provides substantial efficiency + cost savings.
Solo artists and small teams also benefit from an integrated, managed workflow that reduces frictional costs and wasted generations.
Studios can assign roles so artists can create while supervisors manage approvals and costs across all popular AI systems (including Kling, Google, Runway, and many more) in a single dashboard.
Full end to end control takes you from scriptwriting to timeline editing, with asset managed image generation for location and prop assets, and shot management with asset referencing when building scenes with keyframe editors, video generators and dialog integration all in one system that provides status visibility across the entire production.
Genvid’s design incorporates Stephan Bugaj’s experience with visual storytelling and developing effective production systems at Pixar and Telltale, and Genvid CIO Jerry Heinz’s experience building and operating scalable platforms at Amazon and Nvidia, implementing world class filmmaking workflows through a scalable, extensible agentic architecture.
About Genvid
Genvid is a New York–based media technology company led by Emmy Award–winning creators building the next generation of professional AI-powered storytelling tools. The company first gained recognition for pioneering Massively Interactive Live Events (MILEs)—real-time interactive streaming experiences that allow audiences to influence live narratives at scale.
Today, Genvid offers a studio-grade generative AI production platform for film, television, games, and branded content, enabling teams to produce long-form AI video with production-level workflows, creative control, and budget accountability. The platform integrates with leading generative video, image, and audio models while supporting enterprise-scale collaboration.
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About MASSIVE Studios
MASSIVE Studios is an AI-native production studio redefining storytelling through the deliberate collaboration between human creative leadership and artificial intelligence. We believe AI is a powerful tool, not the author—one that requires human touch to reach its full potential.
Led by award-winning writers, producers, designers, and AI artists, MASSIVE creates cinematic, emotionally resonant work across film, television, animation, and branded content. By pairing world-class creative craft with advanced AI workflows, we deliver scale and consistency without sacrificing soul—proving that there is nothing artificial about creative intelligence.
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