Laura Tornga.
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The Slate

Three projects across original short, original concept in development, and a delivered AI trailer for a feature, each chosen to prove a different muscle of an AI-native studio.

StudioMedia Misfits / Elise Paige Productions
PrincipalLaura Tornga
UpdatedJune 2026

A slate is an argument about range. These three projects were selected to demonstrate that an AI-native studio can originate its own intellectual property, develop a near-future concept from a real cultural anxiety, and deliver commissioned work to a professional feature production on a studio timeline. Read together they show a filmmaker who can write and own a story, generate and direct a world, and finish to a standard a buyer can put on screen.

Delivered · Fine cut Original short · Writer / Director / Producer

Human Behavior

In a near-future where language is optimized and words are deprecated, a Language Optimization worker discovers the forbidden phrase “human behavior” and must choose between compliance and the last act of linguistic rebellion.

An AI-native short built audio-first, generated across a multi-platform pipeline, scored with an original Suno composition held as owned IP, and finished to delivery in Topaz, Magnific and Lumetri. The film is the studio's clearest demonstration that authored craft survives the move to generative tools. A full production breakdown is available as a dedicated case study.

Status  Fine cut, delivery-ready

Finished · Sizzle + Deck + Site Original IP · Creator

Synthetic Grandma

A grieving family signs a perpetual, irrevocable contract to keep their matriarch alive as an AI “digital legacy,” and slowly discovers that a love which can never be switched off is a kind of haunting.

A near-future story built around a fictional company, Eternis AI, and its Forever Family service, dramatized through the actual artifacts of such a future: the Digital Legacy Authorization a grandmother signs, the marketing that promises her voice and wisdom will outlive her, and the clause that says her legacy can never be deactivated. The project interrogates consent, grief and ownership of the self in the age of synthetic personhood, the most human possible subject for an AI-native film.

Status  Pitch deck, sizzle reel, and working website complete

Trailer delivered · Feature in dev AI trailer production · for Traumfabrik Babelsberg

Bali Demons

On Bali, the island of gods and demons, a group of tourists is trapped in a living nightmare as a masked killer hunts them, and they must learn whether they face a human murderer or ancient demons reclaiming their home.

A hyperrealistic AI-generated horror trailer produced for the feature in development at Traumfabrik Babelsberg, written by Sophia Vester from an idea by Konstantin Mayer. The studio's role was the AI trailer: a cinematic, 2.39:1, character-consistent piece built to a director's brief, with seed-locked likenesses for the cast and a desaturated, oppressive grade. It is the slate's proof that the pipeline serves not only original work but professional commissions, on spec and on schedule.

Status  Trailer delivered; feature in development

A note on rights, for accuracy

Human Behavior and Synthetic Grandma are original to the studio, the latter now a finished package with a sizzle reel, a pitch deck, and a working website. Bali Demons is a third-party feature; the studio's credit is the AI-generated trailer produced to the production's creative brief, and that finished trailer also lives in the gated Finished Films catalog.


What unites the slate is a single operating principle. Every project is either owned outright or delivered clean, generated through a pipeline whose provenance can be documented and whose craft survives professional scrutiny. That is the posture the licensed market rewards, and a slate is the most persuasive way to show it, because it proves the system works more than once.