2022 Hollywood Gold Awards | US | Honourable Mention
2021 Filmfest Bremen | DE
2021 Jelly Fest L.A. | USA | Finalist
2021 Flickfair | L.A. | USA
2021 Ouchy Awards Lausanne | CH
2020 New Media Festival | USA | Winner Best AI
2020 Night of Comedy Shorts | USA | Semi-Finalist
2020 London Worldwide Comedy Film Festival | UK | Honourable Mention
Director: Klaas Diersman
Writer/Artificial Intelligence/Neural Network: ZenMan
Technical Director: Alexis Kirke
DoP: Ben Bailey
Art Department: Lucy Diersman
Creators (Producers/”Writers”/Art Directors):
Laura Osborne & Matt Longstaff
We asked a machine “What is love?”
Written by an AI raised on Romanic Comedies, a couple embark on an awkward 2nd date after their first ended in disaster.
The film introduces us to ZenMan, an AI with dreams of becoming a screenwriter. In its writing debut, we meet an unnamed man and woman who are preparing for a dinner date in a quiet London restaurant. The date is an awkward affair, not helped by the actions of Mike, their waitress. While they bicker, it emerges that this is not the couple's first meeting; and while they attempt to repair the damage caused by their disastrous first date, they realise that their love for each other will conquer anything - even storms of flying fruit.
Private viewing @ Screen On The Green Angel, Islington, London 2017
Premiered at Algoshorts 2018
Publicly released on Valentines Day, Feb 14th 2019
Screened at the 11th New Media Festival, LA 2021
We shared our first rough cut at Screen On The Green, Islington, London.
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ZenMan’s script…