EXCLUSIVE: Peter Luo’s Stars Collective has teamed with the LA-based tech agency HashMatrix to build a slate of AI-generated projects alongside a new AI film festival set to launch in 2025.
Under the terms of the partnership, Stars Collective and HashMatrix will use artificial intelligence to develop and produce twelve short-form dramas based on Stars Collective’s existing intellectual property.
The AI Film Festival will take place in Los Angeles. Organizers told us the event will “showcase groundbreaking AI applications in film, and foster collaboration between the two industries.”
Stars Collective will oversee the festival and handle brand licensing alongside outreach to the film industry with a specific interest in Hollywood. HashMatrix has said it will engage AI companies, secure collaborations, and contribute resources from the AI industry.
Based in LA, HashMatrix has collaborated on projects with companies such as Ant Group, Alibaba, KlingAI, Minimax, and 01AI. During SF TechWeek, HashMatrix hosted an AI open-source event that featured participants from xAI and Meta AI. Stars Collective was founded by Peter Luo (Malignant, Scary Stories to Tell in The Dark).
Discussing today’s news, Luo said he and his collaborators are “leaning into the future with a best-in-class partner who will help us utilize AI to develop visionary content.”
“Our stance is that AI is a powerful storytelling tool and potential applications are too vast to dismiss. We must be forward-thinking in our approach to entertainment,” he said.
Stars Collective has aggressively increased its footprint this year and recently optioned the life rights of Pichaya Soontornyanakij, also known as “Chef Pam.” Pam is a Thai-Chinese-Australian chef and the owner of POTONG, a Thai-Chinese fine-dining Michelin-star restaurant in Bangkok’s Chinatown. The company also optioned the film rights to the non-fiction book ‘Fortune Sons: The 120 Chinese Boys Who Came to America, Went to School, and Revolutionized an Ancient Civilization’ and is developing a movie adaptation alongside Academy Award winner Donna Gigliotti (Silver Linings Playbook, Hidden Figures).
On today’s news, Jennie Wu, Co-Founder of HashMatrix, added: “We believe 2025 will be a defining year for AI as it finds its true application points and establishes practical integrations with real-world industries. This is a critical moment where AI will transition from potential to impactful implementation across various sectors.”