Flick recently launched!

Launch YC: Flick = Figma + Cursor for AI Filmmaking 🎬

"End-to-end AI filmmaking software."

👉 Other AI tools generate clips — Flick lets you direct Films
👇 All launch video content made with Flick by themselves | 🔊+🎧 recommended

https://youtu.be/daVI0yscN94?si=iEhip6dPkn8E4rwu

Founded by Ray Wang & Zoey Zhang

Ray was a founding engineer at Instagram AI team, who helped build the first version of Instagram Stories, launched it and helped grow it from 0 to 400M DAU in 2018. As main contributor, wrote almost all the backend code in the first year. Have built multiple profitable AI products in the past venture.

Zoey has been a filmmaker since 2013, graduated from Brown and RISD. She is an award-winning filmmaker and product designer. Previously her creations include commercials for Mercedes-Benz, viral short films with millions of views, an award-winning documentary, and collaborations with leading film talents such as cinematographer Thierry Arbogast (Léon). Her AI filmmaking research was published at SIGGRAPH 2025.

Flick was emerged from the creation of Zoey’s first AI film that got best visual award at MIT film festival. Since then, there are 4 complete AI short films created using Flick that got 20+ awards at international film festivals and their early creator residency are generating several AI short films every week.

Problem

Many AI tools can give you 8-second casual clips to post on social media, but when it comes to making high-quality films, they don’t come close due to their lack of flexibility, creative control, and fragmented creative flow.

Creators think very differently from consumers. Creators think in a non-linear way — moving back and forth freely to iterate, making decisions at every step. To direct a film, creators need not just visual and character consistency, but also character movement, shot angles, camera language, and emotional arc.

Solution

Flick puts creative power back in the hands of filmmakers:

1. Infinite Canvas + Chat

An infinite canvas where users upload or generate text, images, and video as connected nodes. They integrate multiple models, but instead of prompt-to-video, they let filmmakers think in terms of scripts, characters, and scenes and give them a natural “chat to create on canvas” experience.

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2. Editing while creating

Creators like to go back and forth when making shots, so they built editing tools directly into the canvas. So, they can define exactly what kind of shot they want to add or delete to ensure a stronger narrative.

Image Credits: Flick

3. Studio + Perplexity for film scenes

No one creates from nothing, they have needed inspiration since the beginning of humanity. That’s why they are building Studio, where they produce their own AI films and collaborate with leading filmmakers to share their behind-the-scenes workflows as reusable canvases and templates for their community members.

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And integrated Perplexity for film search, allowing users to find classic film shots as references.

Image Credits: Flick

Connect Hollywood?

John Rosenberg is a Hollywood filmmaker, producer, and production executive with over 30 years experience. He has worked at studios including 20th Century Fox, Orion, and New Line. His films have premiered at Sundance.

John also is a professor at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and a member of ACE (American Cinema Editors). His editing books, published by Routledge / Focal Press, are widely used by film students around the world.

John joins Flick as their advisor to connect Hollywood filmmaking craft with the next generation of AI storytellers.

Mission

The next generation of creators won’t think about “prompting models” at all, they’ll just direct, compose, and feel, and the tools will disappear into their creative flow. That’s the future they are building toward. And that’s why they exist.

Learn More

🌐 Visit flick.art to learn more.
👉  Make your first film: flick.art with code: YCLAUNCH

⭐ If you know film studios or creators interested in AI filmmaking, reach out to the founders here. ✌️🍊
👣 Follow Flick on LinkedIn, Discord , X & Instagram

Posted 
November 7, 2025
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