Best Short Documentary
A.I. Stars
9 min Color Sound 2026
A virtual starlet traces her cinematic lineage and path to celebrity. Composed of archival footage and clips from Hollywood films depicting synthetic actors, A.I. Stars gives voice to an image discovering its own desire to be seen.
Written, Directed, and Edited by
Kamron Saniee
Featuring the Voice of
Lucia Ribisi
Original Music & Sound Design
Aaron David Ross
Kamron Saniee (b. 1992, New Jersey) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist in New York City. His practice spans film, music composition, and curation. In Spring 2026, he presented the first New York screening in 20 years of Alain Corneau's Baroque classic All the Mornings of the World at The Roxy Cinema. A participating artist in Red Bull Music Academy in 2016, his work has been presented at venues including Management and Fridman Gallery in New York, and abroad at the Yokohama International Performing Arts Meeting and the Spatial Sound Institute in Budapest. A.I. Stars, which explores the cinematic prehistory of virtual actors, is his debut short film. kamronsaniee.com