{"id":78955,"title":"🎥 Focal - AI movie studio","tagline":"We take books and screenplays and turn them into movies","body":"**Focal** **is an AI movie studio.** We build tools that help users convert books and screenplays into movies. Eventually we will distribute these shows on our platform, similar to Netflix.\n\n## 🎥 Focal\n\nFocal manages the entire process of turning a book into a movie, including:\n\n* using language models to adapt books into screenplays\n* generating video clips and stitching them together\n* generating audio clips to match video\n* keeping characters consistent across clips\n* lip-syncing characters with dialogue\n\n## 👥 Team\n\n[Robert](https://linkedin.com/in/robert-cunningham-38b43a129) and [Felix](https://linkedin.com/in/felixwang9817) are high school classmates.\n\nRobert studied math and physics at MIT. He helped build Dark Forest, the first zero-knowledge proof-based game with significant traction.\n\nFelix studied math and computer science at Stanford. He previously worked at Tecton on ML infrastructure.\n\n## 📢 Our Ask\n\n**We would love introductions to anyone with experience in the film or TV industry.** We are specifically interested in meeting with screenwriters, directors, cinematographers, editors, sound designers, and producers.\n\nYou can reach us at [founders@focalml.com](mailto:founders@focalml.com). Follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/focalml) for updates!","slug":"KXT-focal-ai-movie-studio","created_at":"2024-03-01T20:11:32.612Z","updated_at":"2026-05-25T04:21:05.480Z","total_vote_count":82,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/KXT-focal-ai-movie-studio","share_image_url":"//bookface-static.ycombinator.com/assets/ycdc/yc-og-image-c440a0ad1dacfb86eeeb343717479cc54d256614449b4ef719977a0a451f8bc8.png","company":{"id":29416,"name":"Focal","slug":"focal","url":"https://focalml.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/9ec08eef8dbe4db1ca30529a97bf9fde4e2b61aa.png","batch":"Winter 2024","industry":"Consumer","tags":["Artificial Intelligence","Consumer","Video"],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/29416"}}