Please pay attention; this is very important. Somebody out there right now is ready to hire. Not browsing. Ready. They've got a project, a budget, and zero time to scroll through 200 profiles hoping one fits. So they search a label. Maybe "AI Editing / Post-Production." Maybe "Runway." Maybe "Microdramas." Whatever matches what they need. If your Listing Labels are dialed in — they find you. If they're not, they don't. Doesn't matter how good your reel is. They never see it. So here's the ask. Go into your profile and actually look at your labels. Not a glance. A real look. Add the ones that match what you genuinely do. Every one you're missing is a search you're invisible in. And here's the part people skip — delete the ones that don't fit anymore, or never really did. A label you slapped on hoping it'd apply someday isn't helping you. It's just noise that gets you found by the wrong person, for the wrong job, and that's worse than not being found at all. One more thing. This list isn't static. New tools show up constantly, new categories get added right along with them. We'll keep adding labels as the field moves — check back in every so often so you're not stuck representing yourself with last month's toolkit. Five minutes on this now is worth more than another five minutes polishing your bio. Go check your labels.

IMDb just made “Digital Creator” an official professional category — on IMDb and IMDbPro. Internet video people finally get a real industry profile next to actors and filmmakers. Sub-roles include Video Creator, Streamer, Vlogger, Video Essayist, and more. No traditional film or TV credits required. That’s not a vanity badge. The directory Hollywood actually uses is treating digital work as a profession, and making creators findable to producers, casting, studios, and brands. If you cut AI film, short-form, or branded video for a living, claim the lane on your profile. https://variety.com/2026/digital/news/imdb-digital-creator-profiles-1236855930/

I just recorded a quick video walking through an idea I've been chewing on for AIFD. The short version — AIFCA members with a Pro profile get invited to make a video ad for the directory. If I pick yours, it goes up on our socials... with your name on it, and a link straight to your portfolio. Not picked this round? No hard feelings, you can submit again next round. And everyone who participates gets a coupon toward AIFD either way. Still shaping this one, so I'd love your honest take. Watch the video and let me know what you think 👇 #aifilmmakersdirectory #aifilmmakerscareeragents

Wanted you guys to be the first to know. CLOWD is a real AI film festival. First annual one. October 7-8, at The Alex Theatre in Glendale. Real venue, real industry judges — Hollywood people, tech people. Not a Zoom webinar wearing a festival costume. Submissions are closed already. But stick with me, this still matters for you. Here's the thing about festivals in general: they're one of the few places left where your work gets seen by people who actually make hiring and funding decisions. Not algorithm luck. Not a good week on social. Actual humans, judging actual work, in an actual room. If you're serious about this as a career, getting into festivals should be on your radar. Always. Now, what this sponsorship actually does for you: Everywhere CLOWD promotes itself between now and the event — their homepage, sponsor page, poster, on-screen at screenings, trailers, newsletter, socials — AIF Directory's name is sitting right there next to it. Their audience becomes our audience. Which means it becomes yours too, since you're in the Directory. And the live event itself matters here too. Glendale, for anyone who doesn't know, is basically LA. So this is pulling in an LA crowd — studios, brands, businesses actually looking to hire AI filmmakers. The kind of people who don't know the Directory exists yet. They show up, they see how easy it is to find and hire creators through AIFD, and now they're browsing your profile instead of posting a job listing into the void. And for the filmmakers who did submit and place: Winners get a full year of AIFD Pro. Free. Finalists get 50% off a year of Pro. If that's you, sit tight. We'll reach out once winners are announced. Everyone else — go watch. October 7-8, The Alex Theatre. See who wins, see what a real festival looks like, and start thinking about which one you're submitting to next. Because this won't be the last one. We're hoping CLOWD is the first of several festival partnerships, not the only one. More creators, more stages, more real recognition. That's the plan.

So AIFCA used to stand for "AI Filmmakers Career Agents." Now it's "AI Film Career Accelerator." Same letters. Same community. Same me. Just swapped out one word. Here's why. "Agent" sounds like I'm representing you. Like I'm the guy who calls up a studio and gets you the gig. And for a minute, that WAS kind of the plan. But that's not actually what this is. This is a community that helps you build your own career — your own profile, your own reel, your own pipeline of work. I'm not standing between you and the people hiring you. You are. "Agent" said one thing. We do another thing. So the name needed to catch up to reality. "Accelerator" is just more honest. It's a place that helps your career move faster — not a person doing the moving for you. The URL is now https://www.skool.com/aifilmcareeraccelerator Feel freen to invite other AI video creators and people who orbit around the industry. Just wanted you to hear it from me first.