How Filmmaker Ash Koosha Made a Tribeca Festival Movie for $2,000

And Dreams of Violets executive producer Tom Rogers was amazed by the results.

"It's a remarkable achievement that AI has been able to create something of this quality level," he told E!, "but what is truly amazing—and I'm not sure it's been underscored enough—is this entire film was done by one person."

That's why Koosha, who co-founded AI-driven production company Fountain 0 with his brother Pooya Koosha, believes Dreams of Violets historical premiere will usher in a new age of filmmaking, allowing indie storytellers to create without blockbuster-sized budgets.

"It's often asked from the indie filmmaker to get clever and bypass the budget to prove themselves," he said. "With the AI production or AI assistance in filmmaking, we will change that. We will invent new roles around the models, how we control the models and also give the ability to a storyteller to imagine the worlds that require $200 million."

For example, AI allowed Koosha to explore complex ideas and scenes in little time and with little budget—a task he said is "impossible to do in any form of traditional cinema."

"The story was so personal that it drove me to get more creative to be able to finish it," he shared. "What was incredible was me having so many creative ideas that I could test out in such a short amount of time."

Koosha added, "A lot of films, in fact, get destroyed because of the risks you take."

That's why he suggests AI will ultimately reshape filmmaking rather than replace it.

"This is against all the narrative that there's a one button push and you're going to get a full film," he shared. "What will happen is: Hollywood will go to Hollywood 2.0, which is the same people that were on set that were looking at actors all their lives—even if they were the people who were plugging the cables, just running around the set—have enough knowledge, interest and love for films to come in and operate these models for stories that are otherwise impossible."