# Leading Filmmakers Bring AI-Powered Cinema to ACFM 2026 with Kling AI

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- Published: 2026-10-13T19:22:00+07:00
- Author: MarketersMEDIA Newswire

Busan, South Korea, October 13, 2026 — Four leading filmmakers from Asia have leveraged
Kling AI to produce AI-powered films that push the boundaries of cinematic storytelling,
spanning AI-generated short films, virtual entertainment, AI-hybrid cinema and feature-
length films.

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At the 2026 Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM), filmmakers and content creators
from China and South Korea—including Sung-Soo Kim, director of _12.12: The Day_,
MBC C&I AI Contents Lab head Sang Wook Lee, MooAm founder and director Harry Hyun,
together with Chinese animation director Wei Li with over 20 years of experience
in the animation industry—presents projects that illustrate how generative AI has
been applied across different stages and formats of filmmaking. Their work is featured
in “New Cinematic Possibilities: Reimagining Filmmaking with Kling AI”, a session
co-hosted by Kling AI and ACFM.

Kling AI is participating in ACFM for the second year as part of InnoAsia, a program
connecting technology companies with the content industry. Its participation this
year comes as Kling 4.0, its latest video generation model, starts early access 
beta testing, bringing the platform’s latest advances in AI video generation into
focus as filmmakers explore new production workflows.

**New Tools, New Ways of Filmmaking**

The four filmmakers and producers featured in the panel are currently working on
projects that involve Kling AI tools.

Korean director Sung-Soo Kim, director of _12.12: The Day_, used AI for the first
time in his creation process and collaborated with Kling AI on his new AI short 
film _Worm Train_. Inspired by Franz Kafka’s _The Metamorphosis_, the film follows
an ordinary office worker overwhelmed by corporate life who turns into a giant insect
but still has to commute to work.

Kim first began developing the project with Kling 3.0 in early 2026. He resumed 
production in September with Kling 4.0, integrating the model into a collaborative
filmmaking workflow. A key turning point came when he recreated a subway scene with
Kling 4.0 Preview—a scene he had abandoned in March.

“The moment I recreated the subway scene with Kling 4.0 Preview, I was able to see
the realistic physical interaction and sense of weight as the insect collided with
passengers. It was the very scene I had given up back up then.”

Seeing images that came so close to what he had envisioned left Kim deeply moved.
Beyond cinematic continuity, he highlights Kling’s ability to render characters 
and settings in Asian context, as well as its audio-generation capabilities.

Sang Wook Lee, head of the AI Contents Lab at MBC C&I, presents _Rendering Love_,
a short-form AI series co-developed by MBC C&I and Barunson E&A, the production 
company behind _Parasite_. Blending live-action scenes with AI-generated virtual
idols, the series explores new possibilities for cinematic storytelling through 
Kling 4.0’s advances in character consistency and motion control.

Kling 4.0’s enhanced Omni Reference supports up to 10 keyframes for precise scene
planning and up to 15 multimodal references, including images, video and audio, 
helping maintain character consistency across shots and episodes. This makes it 
possible to move beyond isolated AI-generated scenes toward character-driven storytelling.

Meanwhile, the team uses Kling’s motion control to preserve the dance movements 
and subtle physical nuances of real performers, bringing their performances to life
through virtual characters. As Lee explains, AI does not replace an actor’s performance;
it becomes a tool for transferring that performance onto a character.

For Chinese animation director Wei Li, Kling AI offers a way to make ambitious visual
storytelling more achievable. His feature-length animated film _Born of the Tide_,
being developed in collaboration with Kling AI, runs 105 minutes, with more than
2,350 shots and over 152 characters.

Productions of this scale place substantial demands on both visual detail and production
efficiency, particularly in expansive sequences designed for the big screen. With
Kling’s native 4K generation, scenes such as dragon boat races and an explosive 
action sequence in a fish market can be rendered with greater detail.

MooAm founder, CEO, and director Harry Hyun, whose film _Crypto Man_ ranked No. 
1 on Netflix Korea’s film chart in 2025, also shared her experience developing AI-
hybrid cinema _Natasha_ with Kling AI. Planned as a 100-minute mystery thriller 
and period romance, the film is set during the harsh winter of 1944 under Japanese
colonial rule.

In developing _Natasha_, Hyun uses Kling AI to help realize her creative vision,
highlighting Kling 4.0’s 10-bit HDR output, which helps preserve shadow detail in
high-contrast settings, including backlit and nighttime scenes, while offering greater
latitude for color grading in post-production. The model’s 21:9 aspect ratio also
supports widescreen cinematic compositions and a more immersive viewing experience.

**What Makes Cinema More Cinematic?**

Across the four projects presented in the session, a common theme emerges: AI can
expand the possibilities of filmmaking, but cinematic expression depends on more
than what technology can generate. It also depends on what creators choose to show,
what they leave unsaid, and how individual images, people and ideas come together
to form a story.

Yet, as Korean director Sung-Soo Kim sees it, AI may not diminish the human element
of cinema, but create new ways for it to flourish.

For Kim, the short film presented at the forum marked his first experience working
with AI. Initially, he viewed AI as a collaborative or alternative tool for VFX.
However, his perspective gradually shifted after he tried making a film with AI 
firsthand. Rather than focusing solely on how much AI could reduce production costs,
he began to consider how it might transform the filmmaking process itself.

Still, Kim believes that producing polished, commercially viable mid-length and 
feature-length narrative films with AI requires a workflow modeled on traditional
collaborative filmmaking. For _Worm Train_, he assembled a nine-person team, including
VFX supervisor Ryu Jae-hwan and specialists in art direction, narrative editing 
and music.

“AI can generate images and footage endlessly, but I can clearly see that it still
cannot truly create the connection between shots,” Kim observes. “AI has not eliminated
the creative process. Instead, it has made collaboration between people more efficient
and more closely connected.”

A similar focus on human creativity underpins _Rendering Love_, an AI series that
explores both the creative boundaries and commercial potential of virtual characters.
Rather than using AI simply to imitate existing films or animation, the team set
out to discover where AI-generated content can go while remaining engaging and acceptable
to audiences.

At its heart, _Rendering Love_ is a love story about recognizing the real person
behind a character. For the team, this reflects a broader belief: even in the age
of AI, compelling content ultimately remains a story about people.

From short-form series to feature-length films, and from established production 
teams to AI-native creative studios, Kling AI is moving beyond isolated creative
experiments toward more structured workflows and commercially oriented applications.

Driving this transition is Kling AI’s continued model development. Since its launch
in June 2024, the platform has undergone more than 30 product iterations, evolving
from version 1.0 to 4.0 while continually expanding its creative and production 
capabilities. As of June 2026, Kling AI had surpassed 100 million users worldwide,
with users across 224 countries and regions and nearly 50,000 enterprise customers.

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