District 9's Neill Blomkamp releases 13-min AI short, launches Barley Studios
Blomkamp dropped "Nightborne," a sci-fi/horror short built entirely on Seedance 2.0, and announced Barley Studios as his permanent AI production company — the most credentialed director yet to commit fully to AI filmmaking.
Why it matters: When a filmmaker with District 9 on their résumé publicly bets their next act on AI video, it resets the production-quality bar every agency and brand creative team will be benchmarked against — and puts Seedance 2.0 at the center of that conversation.