Historic Pictures
AI Native Film Production Studio
AI Native Film Production Studio
Historic Pictures is an AI-native historical film studio and community dedicated to reviving serious, cinematic history.
Cinema is one of the most powerful tools humans have ever created for preserving memory, myth, and meaning. Yet historical storytelling today is constrained by centralized production, ideological incentives, and economic inefficiency. The result is a widening gap between audiences who crave grounded, serious historical drama—and an industry increasingly unable or unwilling to produce it.
Historic Pictures exists to close that gap.
We use AI strictly as a production tool, not a substitute for thought, taste, or authorship. Our focus is on historically grounded narrative films—stories built from research, sources, and cultural memory, treated with respect and cinematic intent. This isn’t about speed or novelty; it’s about expanding what a small, independent team can realistically produce.
This is also a community. Historians, writers, artists, technologists, and curious obsessives collaborate openly—sharing sources, debating interpretations, breaking down scenes, and improving projects iteratively. Serious feedback is not just welcomed—it’s essential.
Our commitment is transparency. We’ll acknowledge mistakes. We’ll correct them when warranted. We aim to be historically grounded and source-informed, not dogmatic.
Long term, the aim is simple: build a sustainable, independent studio and ecosystem where historically serious films can be made, refined, and eventually scaled—without gatekeepers, without ideological capture, and without pretending this is easy.
To develop historical storytelling as an industry with AI, and to prove that a profitable film studio can be created outside the traditional system.
To redefine how historical films are made: globally, independently, and outside of mainstream gatekeepers— producing work that remains relevant decades from now because it stays true to its sources.
Modern cinema is controlled by a small Hollywood production elite and the ideologies they choose to enforce. Today it’s a different orthodoxy, but the mechanism is the same. A handful of people decide what stories are acceptable, what values must be signaled, and what masculinity, heroism, or morality looks like.
This system has always been corrupt. Gatekeepers control access, money, and careers, and history shows exactly how that power gets abused. Media has been a propaganda tool for too long, and the results are obvious: hollow “message-first” storytelling, historically incoherent casting, and endless rewrites of the past to fit modern political tastes. Why invent when reality is already richer? Why distort history when the truth is far more compelling?
Casting Achilles or Cleopatra as black people isn’t progressive—it’s lazy and insulting. It implies only European stories are worth telling, while everyone else must be awkwardly inserted into them. There are countless real African, Middle Eastern, Asian, and Indigenous heroes whose stories have never been told on screen. At Historic Pictures, we intend to tell those stories too—rooted in historical reality.
AI changes everything. AI will strip power from the gatekeepers and democratize filmmaking. Our goal is to push the medium to its limits: realism, historical grounding, cinematic quality, and atmosphere. Every shot deliberate. Every detail researched. Layers of reference, texture, and meaning—carrying the weight of centuries.
What actually happened is more powerful than what’s imagined. Fiction is easy—everyone has an imagination. Reality is harder, stranger, and infinitely more compelling. Real people lived, fought, believed, betrayed, prayed, and died. Truth doesn’t need invention—it demands respect.
Our community is a gathering point for history and AI enthusiasts who use these tools as a looking glass into the past. We recreate, debate, and revive history iteratively—sharpening our collective memory through generative craft.
If you’re interested in recreating the past through a new lens, start here.
FEATURED PROJECT / V1
The Battle of Kosovo project is an AI-assisted cinematic proof of concept exploring how historically grounded narratives can be told outside the traditional studio system. It is a narrative film project, informed by historical sources, epic poetry, and visual tradition.
Feedback — both historical and cinematic — is part of the process, and future versions will refine elements based on what works and what doesn’t.
Founder & Creative Director
I’ve been a history nerd for as long as I can remember. By the age of 11, films like Braveheart, Gladiator, and Troy had captured my imagination—not because they were perfect, but because they were EPIC. That interest grew through strategy games like Age of Empires, Total War, and Mount & Blade: Bannerlord.
Professionally, I’m an entrepreneur working in SaaS. I’ve raised capital, built a startup, and successfully exited it. I’m used to building things from scratch, releasing fast, working within constraints, and learning by doing rather than theorizing.
Historic Pictures is a natural intersection of those two worlds for me: deep interest in history and storytelling, combined with a builder’s mindset. I’m not coming at this as a filmmaker by trade—I’m coming at it as someone who obsesses over systems, narrative, execution, and getting things made.
I also had the opportunity to be an extra in Game of Thrones Season 4 (Episodes 2 and 7). Being on set, watching how large-scale historical fantasy is produced was an incredible experience—and one that stuck with me long after.
We are seeking researchers, sound designers, filmmakers, editors, composers, historians, and AI artists. We are also seeking forward-thinking investors who share our vision for the future of independent cinema. If you want to bypass the gatekeepers and build the future of historical cinema, get in touch.
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