For writers, directors and producers

Make the film you've imagined. AI does the work. You decide how much to direct.

Bring a script, or just an idea. An AI crew writes it, casts it, storyboards it, budgets it, shoots it and cuts it. Press a few buttons for a finished film, or step in at any stage and take over.

Your AI crew

A whole crew, staffed by AI. Take over any stage, any time.

01DevelopAI
02WriteAI
03CastAI
04BoardAI
05BudgetAI
06ShootAI
07CutAI

Give it a line, or pick one of its pitches. The crew writes, casts, boards, budgets, shoots and cuts, and you press go at each stage.

End to end

Idea in. Picture out.

01DevelopPitches worth your name, with posters.Head of Development
Harbor Light
02WriteLogline, treatment, script — rewritten on your notes.Story Department
INT. LIGHTHOUSE — LAMP ROOM — PRE-DAWNThey sit side by side against the rail, worn thin, at ease.MATEUSIt'll be light soon.TEODORAIt's always light soon. That's the whole of my job.
03CastOriginal stars — or you.Casting & Design
04BoardEvery scene storyboarded before a frame is shot.The Director
Storyboard
05ShootEach take checked by a supervisor, and retaken if it's wrong.The floor
Shot 7 · take
06CutScenes assembled, sound laid, dialogue mixed.The Editor
Scene 7 · 1:07
07ReleaseYour page, your episodes, your audience.Distribution
Harbor LightWatch · Share

Nothing is shot or spent without your say.

When you step in

The director's chair is always there.

Audition your cast

Four faces for every role, each with its own voice. No two actors in a film look alike.

Note any panel

See every scene boarded before it's shot. Redraw a panel, re-plan a scene, or bring the old one back.

Set the budget

Every scene priced before it's shot, in Indie or Studio, under a ceiling it won't pass.

Any length

A short, a pilot, a feature's worth of scenes, or a full series with paying fans.

What you make

Award-worthy original work, at any length.

A couple on a mint-green scooter on the Amalfi coast road at golden hour, a bag of lemons in his arms

Films

Original stories or new tellings of the public domain, in any genre, from short films up.

A man in a dark coat watches the city through binoculars from an Istanbul rooftop at dawn

Series

Episodes and seasons, with the same cast and world throughout. Choose micro-drama and every episode opens on a hook and ends on a cliffhanger.

A runner leaps between two rooftops in a sunlit hill town, tiles scattering

Clips

Your stars in any moment you can describe — acted, voiced, lip-synced, ready to share.

Stars

Make your own stars. Or make yourself one.

Describe a face and/or upload an image and cast it. Or step in front of your own camera, record your voice, and become the lead in your own film. Every star keeps their face, voice and acting style across every picture you cast them in. Give them a public page, and let fans follow them from film to film.

Your audience

Share it with your friends and followers. Get paid when they watch.

Every film, series, studio and star has its own page and its own share card.

Fans

Viewers unlock episodes, buy season passes and back your stars.

Earn

Their spending pays you, straight to your bank account.

First the camera became affordable. Then the edit. Then AI learned to conjure a shot from a sentence.

But the studio itself stayed out of reach: the writers, casting directors, cinematographers and editors who turn an idea into a finished picture, keep every face true from the first scene to the last, and carry the film to its audience.

Limelight is that studio, and it answers to you.

The video tool was only the beginning.

What it costs

Free: Founding your studio
Free: Your first film, through its script
$12 a month: Membership, added to your credits
From $23: A finished minute, boarded and shot
Priced first: Every scene quoted before it's shot, and capped

The same price whether AI does it all or you direct every shot.