Runway Widens Scope Of Its Annual AI Festival, Adding Categories Beyond Film

Key Highlights

• News Inside Equity & Pact's Artificial Intelligence Negotiation: UK Union Demands Compensation Clause But Pact Says Its Offer Gives Actors "More Control Over Their Data & Performance Than Counterparts In Other Countries" Runway is among a growing cluster of well-funded start-ups making tools with filmmakers in mind.
• The company was founded by a trio of friends from Chile who met at New York University as graduate students focused on communications technology.
• Last spring, Runway raised a $308 million funding round that valued the company at $3 billion.
• Watch on Deadline The 2026 festival in New York will be held at Alice Tully Hall in Lincoln Center, the same venue as last year’s edition and also, notably, the home of the New York Film Festival every fall.
• Last year, Runway also inked a deal with Imax to have the 10 short films that were part of the festival have a commercial run in several of the company’s large-format auditoriums.