London director's AI feature Boss chases a cinema release

A London director who made a feature film alone with AI is now trying to get it into cinemas, the step that would separate an AI experiment from an AI release.

Jenny Krakovsky's "Boss" is a 1960s Liverpool crime caper about housewives who take over their husbands' crime business. Krakovsky wrote, directed, produced and scored it, according to her own site, jennykrakovsky.com, and she has said she made it on a laptop using AI image and video tools. She began the project as a public 30-day challenge in May 2026 and vlogged the build; the challenge drew more than 3.5 million views on social media, her site says, and "Pulp Fiction" screenwriter Roger Avary called her "the tip of the spear in culture."

Her site describes her as "the world's first solo female AI feature film director achieving theatrical release." NexChron reports she is pursuing a commercial theatrical run, puts the production at 50 days and 17,000 pounds, and says the film's Merseybeat soundtrack was generated with Suno. Krakovsky's own account gives the 30-day figure, and no budget appears on her site.

What Is Boss?

Boss is a period crime caper, not a short. The independent AI-film catalogue Latent Matinee lists it as a 2026 feature and credits Krakovsky with writing, directing, producing and the original score, with Bryan Starbuck and Azer Koculu as associate producers. Latent Matinee notes that the final runtime, an itemized budget and a verified list of models and versions are still unknown, and says its entry rests on the production's own documentation rather than a review of the finished film.

Krakovsky came to the project from commercials and documentaries for brands including Nike, Prada and Adidas, and has said the feature script sat unproduced for years while she waited on financing. In an interview with the podcast The Disruption Is Now, she said period consistency now takes a short style prompt and a contact sheet of reference images rather than an essay per shot, and that human performance and lens optics remain the tools' biggest gaps.

The catch

Reaching theaters is the test. Distributors and cinema chains judge a film on visual consistency, audio quality and narrative coherence rather than on how it was made, so an AI feature that clears those bars competes on the same terms as any other independent film. Krakovsky's film would be an early data point either way.

Boss has no announced release date; Krakovsky says a theatrical run is in progress.