
Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
Monday, July 20th, 2026
6 – 6:50 PM Eastern Time Zone
Session I: A Virtual Event
The Kling Roundtable: Making History with AI Filmmaking
Join us for an exclusive fireside chat with visionary director Ash Koosha, the pioneering filmmaker who made history this summer when Dreams of Violets premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival as the first fully AI-generated feature film accepted into a major festival. Now Ash returns with his highly anticipated next feature, ODYSSEUS: The Fall, powered by Kling AI. In this inspiring conversation, Ash will reveal what it truly takes to direct feature-length films with frontier AI video models and share his vision of how AI is unlocking new creative frontiers and empowering a bold new generation of storytellers to bring their most ambitious ideas to life
Speakers:
Tony Pu, Head of Creator Community & Partnerships, Kling AI
Ash Koosha, Poneering AI Technologist, founder, Fountain 0
Tony Pu, Product Marketing Lead, Kling AI: Tony Pu has a diverse background spanning both the creative & filmmaking industry, and the tech industry. Currently, Tony is spearheading the go-to-market efforts at Kling AI, one of the leading AI video generation platforms, for its adoption in the global market, especially among professional users and studios. Previously, he has played a key role in the success of the viral video editing app CapCut, helping it enter the global market and hundreds of millions of users. Before that, he has been actively involved in works in film project development, film festival curation, creative production, and advertising. As a member of the American Marketing Association, Tony is also actively exploring synergies between technologies and marketing methodologies and strategies. With first-hand experience as a creative producer and a deep understanding of platform dynamics, he brings a unique perspective on storytelling and innovation. Passionate about the evolving role of technology in creativity, Tony is committed to promoting the use of AI to make content creation more accessible to everyone.
Ash Koosha is a pioneering AI technologist and the founder of Fountain 0, a generative film studio and platform building AI-generated films and TV series. He has spent more than a decade as an AI researcher and synthetic-media engineer. He created Yona, the first AI-generated agentic virtual musician, through Auxuman in 2017, as well as multiple AI-generated music albums in 2018 and 2020. His AI-generated featureDreams of Violets premiered at the 2026 Tribeca Festival — the first AI film ever officially accepted into a major film festival. He is also the co-founder of Claigrid, an automation research lab building self-developing businesses that support creators and freelancers. His mission is to automate the world out of mundane, expensive and prolonged processes, and to enable creative vision to emerge faster, cheaper and at the highest quality possible. He first reached international audiences starring in and scoring No One Knows About Persian Cats, winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes, and has released music on the globally renowned label Ninja Tune.
