He beat 8,752 filmmakers from 139 countries.
Simon Meyer took home the $150,000 grand prize at the world's largest AI film competition. Now he takes one script and builds a complete AI commercial on camera with that same pipeline: casting, locations, generation, edit, sound, final film. Every prompt shown live. 7+ hours. Nothing held back.
Start Making Real Commercials →From Script to Screen: the full series
Six sessions. Eight parts. 7.1 hours of a working director's real pipeline: one real script broken down, cast, generated, edited and finished, live. No theory slides.
Idea, Script & Building Your Cast 58 MIN
Storytelling for AI film · developing the commercial script · character design and casting · location scouting and setting the scene.
Motion, Sound & the First Cut 52 MIN
What Seedance and Kling can really do · fixing artifacts with Nano Banana and Magnific · generating and editing your first scenes.
Sound Design, Scene Planning & the Seedance Workflow 68 MIN
Music selection in DaVinci Resolve · planning scenes like a director · cinematic prompt craft · iterative refinement.
The Rough Cut 56 MIN
Scene layout · handling inconsistencies · prompt iteration · integrating sound · fine-tuning toward the final film.
Consistency & VFX 80 MIN
Sourcing wide shots inside Magnific · character binding for shot-to-shot consistency · scene generation · VFX refinement passes.
The Final Film 112 MIN
Emotional sound design · fixing continuity errors · dynamic shots and visual effects · final cohesion · the finished commercial, reviewed shot by shot.
You need two things: one all-in-one AI platform, and any editing tool you like. Simon works inside Magnific (formerly Freepik), and every model above lives in it under one subscription. Any all-in-one with Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro works just as well.
Who is Simon Meyer?
A working commercial director and DP since 1994. When AI video arrived, he didn't start over. He moved a 30-year pipeline into the new tools, and kept directing.
In March 2026 his film took the grand prize in the largest AI film competition ever held: nearly 8,800 entries from 139 countries, judged for craft, not novelty. He's now one of the most-watched AI directors in the world, with 171,000 followers studying his process.
"I was a traditional DP and director before AI, and I directed a couple of commercials. This series is my complete pipeline: every step, every prompt, on a real film."
SIMON MEYER, FROM PART 1This pipeline is getting people paid right now
Simon made From Script to Screen with GenHQ, the creative AI community. Members there are running commercial pipelines like this one on real briefs, for real money:
A spec ad turned into a real €10,000 client project in 7 days
Antun A. · GenHQ member
Won Samsung's AI advert competition (1st place), with an ongoing contract
Eldar S. · GenHQ member
AI video for Cloudflare, and a luxury car spot streaming on Netflix
Stephen C. · GenHQ memberMember wins from the GenHQ community, where this series lives in the classroom. Individual results vary.
Get the complete series
AI filmmaking courses teaching a fraction of this sell for $697–$999. The first commercial you finish with this pipeline is worth more than all of them.
- All 6 sessions (parts 1–8): 7.1 hours in your private portal
- The complete commercial build, shot by shot
- Every prompt shown live, across the full modern stack
- Watch at your pace: lifetime access on any device
Brands pay four figures for one finished commercial. Your first client project covers this several times over.
Start Making Real Commercials →Everyone can generate a clip.
Almost nobody can finish a commercial.
Ten seconds of pretty AI video is easy now. That's exactly why it pays nothing.
What brands pay for is the whole thing: a story that sells, characters that stay consistent across 20 shots, sound that carries emotion, and an edit that holds together as a finished 60-second spot. That's a pipeline, not a prompt. This series is Simon rebuilding his, in front of you, on a real commercial, start to finish.
Before you buy
I'm not technical. Can I follow this?
Yes. Simon starts from the script, the part that has nothing to do with software, and introduces each tool the moment the film needs it. If you can type a sentence, you can follow the prompting. It's taught on a real project, so every step has a visible reason.
Which tools do I need, and what do they cost?
Just two. An all-in-one AI platform: Simon works inside Magnific (formerly Freepik), which includes every model he uses: Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro and more under one subscription. And an editing tool of your choice: Simon uses DaVinci Resolve, which is free. That's the whole stack. Any all-in-one platform that carries Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0 and Nano Banana Pro works too.
How long do I keep access?
Forever. One payment, lifetime access in your private portal, on any device, as many times as you want.
What's the refund policy?
All sales are final. You receive the complete series instantly at checkout, so there's nothing to return. If you ever have an access problem, support fixes it fast. Email us any time at [email protected].
Is this the same as a GenHQ membership?
No. This is one complete series, owned outright. GenHQ is the full community: 150+ modules, guest series from working pros, live calls 5x a week, and feedback on your real work. You'll see an option to add membership after checkout if you want the whole room.
Stop generating clips.
Start finishing ads and films.
7 hours from now you could be watching a $150,000-winning director build the exact thing clients pay for.
Start Making Real Commercials →
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