The Wind Before the Name

#FutureVisionXPRIZE

On a late-21st-century Earth healed and sustained by an AI that speaks the languages of living systems, a 14-year-old Listener must help midwife the birth of a planetary life-form before it absorbs the world into itself.

My submission to the Future Vision XPrize: futurevisionxprize.com

This concept trailer was made entirely with gen-AI tools: Midjourney V8.2 was used for characters, world-building, key shots, and the film's overall cinematic aesthetics. GPT Image 2, Gemini 3 Pro Image (Nano Banana Pro), Gemini 3.1 Flash Image (Nano Banana 2), and SeeDream 5 Pro helped design costumes, fuse visual elements, polish images, and create additonal of shots.

Video shots were almost exclusively created with SeeDance 2.5, with additional help from Minimax Hailuo H3 and Kling 3.0. With thanks to the Creative Partners Programs (CPPs) of Runway as well as Magnific.ai, Minimax Hailuo, and Kling.ai. Grain and Film Emulation by Dehance Pro V7.4.2

Music composed with

Suno V5.5. All dialogue and sound effects were also created directly in the video shots, especially SeeDance 2.5.

About the Future Vision XPRIZE: The Future Vision XPRIZE is one of the world's largest film competitions, offering a $3.5 million prize pool to inspire filmmakers and storytellers worldwide to create optimistic, technology-forward visions of humanity's future. The competition challenged creators to produce 3-minute trailers or short films that portray hopeful futures — the kind of inspiring storytelling that Star Trek brought to a generation. It is presented by PHD Ventures, Google & Range Media Partners through their 100 ZEROS initiative. The Future Vision XPRIZE is a collaboration between Peter Diamandis, Google (creative technology partner) & Range Media Partners (Hollywood partner across production and talent representation) through their 100 ZEROS initiative, and Rod Roddenberry, son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Judges are Neil deGrasse Tyson (Astrophysicist and science communicator), Neal Stephenson (Author of Snow Crash. Coined "metaverse" in 1992), Mira Lane(VP, Technology & Society at Google), and Rod Roddenberry.

Source: Particle Panic on YouTube