Reza Sixo Safai’s career took off when he won second prize at Cannes for his short film, gaining further acclaim with his role in the Sundance-winning Circumstance, prompting the Huffington Post to declare that he “deserves to be a frontrunner for Best Supporting Actor, for an Oscar.” Safai cemented his status as a genre pioneer by producing and co-starring in A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, the Sundance vampire sensation loved by Cate Blanchett, Guillermo Del Toro & Scott Derrickson. Beyond traditional filmmaking, Safai’s influence extends to the advertising world, where he has worked on high-profile projects featuring icons like Lady Gaga, Christina Aguilera, and Karl Lagerfeld, as well as brands such as Christian Louboutin, Martell, Mac, and Vogue. An innovator in Artificial Intelligence, Safai is one of the first to take AI filmmaking to the world’s major film festivals. He was one of the first filmmakers granted access to OpenAI’s Sora and was commissioned by the Tribeca Film Festival to premiere his Sora short there. Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of Tribeca declared that Reza “is showing the filmmaking community how this technology can be harnessed for good, using it to fight for justice in censored countries like Iran.” Safai is also featured in an AI filmmaking documentary that will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. This recognition grants him early access to the latest AI tools, which he leverages to incorporate AI into his filmmaking process, further solidifying his reputation as a visionary in the industry.