Jessé Miceli

Generative AI Film Director

Brand grade films directed in generative AI, or in hybrid pipelines that blend it with live action and motion design. Behind every frame: a filmmaker and producer screened at Cannes and Busan; a decade of high end commercials in Asia; twenty years of editing and post production; and five years of generative AI, from custom models trained in Python to today's full production pipelines.

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Cannes
ACID
Busan
BIFF
Visions
du Réel
Young
Cinema Award
Commercials
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Spec commercial · Coconut Crunch

This Is Love

A museum security guard. A lonely control room. A snack. And somehow... the love of his life.

Directed and produced. 100% AI.

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Spec commercial · Pippin Hose

The First Signs

Welcome to adulthood.

Directed and produced. 100% AI.

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Spec commercial · 2026

Not Again!

A character trapped inside a book gets thrown from one scene to the next every time the reader loses the page.

Directed and produced. 100% AI.

Series and narrative
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Series trailer · 2026

REPLACED

A Psychological Mystery Series. 100% AI made.

Directed and produced. 100% AI.

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AI psychological thriller · proof of concept · 15 min

Ombak

A psychological thriller set aboard a luxury yacht. Complete visual world, character consistency, cinematic finish. Proof of concept for the feature in development.

Written, directed and produced. 100% AI.

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AI film · 14 min · 2026

Happy Place

Vit is 19, a construction worker in Thailand with one simple plan, go out for New Year's Eve. His mother says no. His friends bail. Alone on the beach, he meets Emi, a mysterious girl who may not be what she appears.

Directed and produced. 100% AI.

A filmmaker who directs the generative layer of a film, whether carrying a whole project end to end, art directing within a studio team, or blending AI with live action and motion design. Festival craft, commercial discipline, on brief. AI productions commissioned by studios at the Berlin, Hong Kong and Cannes film markets.

Cannes ACID Busan Visions du Réel 20 years across fiction, advertising and post production

What I deliver

I direct the look and the performance first. The generative craft serves that, not the other way round.

One person carries the film from concept to final delivery: look, motion, voice, sound design, edit and grade. Fewer hands in the chain, one accountable point of contact.

When a project needs more than one pair of hands, I take the producer's seat: briefing, directing and quality controlling other AI video creators across parallel productions, the way I ran advertising productions for a decade.

Characters, voices and environments hold from the first shot to the last, so the film reads as one world, not a run of generations. That consistency is held by a documented reference system, auditable at any point of production.

Deliveries are versioned, iterations defined upfront, deadlines held, white label when needed, across European, Asian and US hours.

Toolkit

Kling Seedance Veo Runway Nano Banana GPT Image ComfyUI ElevenLabs Premiere Pro After Effects DaVinci Resolve
01 A project carried solo, or the generative layer directed inside a team
02 Character and environment consistency held across a full film
03 Voice, sound design and music, the full sonic world delivered with the picture
04 Grade and finish to a cinematic standard, not a content standard
05 On-brief commercial work: product, brand, story, structured to spec
06 Remote, across European, Asian and US time zones
07 Hybrid pipelines: generative assets integrated with live action and motion design
08 Art direction of the look, from reference to final grade
09 Teams of AI video creators briefed, directed and quality controlled across parallel productions

About

Film director
Producer
Founder, Horoma Films
Paris · Bangkok

I am a film director and producer. My debut feature, Les Affluents / Coalesce, premiered at Cannes (ACID), was selected at Busan and Visions du Réel, and was released across 28 territories in cinema, TV and streaming. My twenty years in the industry include a decade directing high end advertising in Asia, luxury hospitality among it, and a continuous editing and post production practice.

I have worked with generative systems since 2021, training my own models in Python before any public tool existed; that early body of work, Horomata, was published in a book in June 2022. I now work full time in AI native production, and I am in post-production on my second feature, Phnom Penh Melody. Master in Cinema Studies, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle. Former member of the ACID Cannes selection committee.

Also selected at

Ottawa International Film Festival · Biografilm Bologna · Asia Film Festival Chicago · Cine Aasia Helsinki

Get in touch

Available for commissions, retainers and training engagements, per project or on a monthly basis, white label when needed. Fully remote, working across European, Asian and US time zones.

jesse@jessemiceli.com