Creative studio · AI film production · Panama, since 2010

We run the AI.
Not the other way around.

We are a film studio that learned to direct the tool — not an AI operator playing at filmmaking. We produce the video your channels demand, with a script, art direction and a cast of our own, at a pace and a price a traditional production house can no longer match.

01 — Work

Directed, not generated.

Everything here was produced with artificial intelligence. That is precisely the difference we want you to judge.

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Organizations we have produced for

They have a unique ability to transform an idea or a written word into visual masterpieces that educate and engage audiences across cultural and geographic boundaries. Perhaps the greatest indicator of the quality of their work is the fact that we have been working together for more than a decade.
Irene BraamExecutive Director
Bertelsmann Foundation · Washington, DC
Original wording, as published on criteriafilms.com

Our laboratory

Every technique is tested on our own series before it ever reaches a client.

We produce two original series — Istmo and Pombo — on a client budget and to a client standard. Whatever does not hold up there never gets proposed to you.

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IstmoPombo

02 — Solutions

What do you actually need?

Feeding a social calendar and training four hundred people are not the same job. Pick your case and see how it gets solved.

Who asks for it

Marketing management · brand · in-house agency

Feed your channels without the quality sliding.

The calendar does not wait. You need steady volume that still looks like your brand on the thirtieth piece, not just the first.

How it is measured

Retention in the opening seconds · reach · cost per result on paid media

Typical formats

  • Brand spots and launches
  • Paid-media cuts with hook variations
  • Vertical social content
  • Seasonal campaigns
Start with a pilot

03 — What makes us different

01

Human Judgment

Someone decides, and answers for the decision

The tool hands you a thousand options and no reason to pick any of them. A director throws out 990, takes the one that tells the story, and signs off on that call. It is the one thing that does not automate — and it is exactly what separates a piece that gets watched from a piece that gets published.

02

Experience

Sixteen years before the first AI

We have been building work since 2010 for the best brands and institutions in the region, and for two original series where every technique is tested before it is offered to you. We learned AI recently. Storytelling, we did not.

03

Cast Library

Exclusive digital casting

We build faces that exist in no stock library and belong only to you. A cast that looks like your audience, available any day, with no schedules, no per diems and no renegotiating image rights every year.

04

Original Score and Sound Design

Full foley

The track your competitor bought from a music library is a track your audience has already heard. We compose the score and the effects for each piece from scratch: your brand sounds as much its own as it looks.

05

Brand Coherence

One team, fifty videos

We set strict parameters for palette, type and visual style. Even at fifty videos a month, every one of them will feel directed by the same crew.

04 — Why us

What you are really comparing us against.

Criteria FilmsAgency or production houseFreelancer or in-house team
Experience16 years directing film, plus two original series in productionVaries — depends on the team you get assignedNone in film direction
Cost per piecePredictable, by subscription, with no shoot-day surprisesQuoted per project, climbs with every day on setCheap per attempt, expensive in your team’s hours
TurnaroundDays, in continuous flow all monthWeeks per piece, subject to production calendarsUnpredictable — depends on hitting the right prompt
ConsistencyVisual bible and an owned cast: piece 30 matches piece 1High, if you hire the same crew every timeLow — the face, the style and the pacing all drift
Narrative judgmentScript and direction from a studio with 16 years of film behind itYes — it is their craftWhatever the software decides
Monthly scaleHigh volume without renegotiating anythingEvery extra piece is a new quoteCapped by your team’s available hours

Investment

So what does this cost?

A flat monthly rate based on the volume you need, with no lock-in. And if you would rather try first, a single pilot piece.

See plans and prices

Prices published. No quote required.

05 — Control at every stage

Four stages, and you sign off on each one.

Nothing moves without your approval. Which means the risk of reaching the end with a piece that was not what you had in mind simply does not exist.

  1. 00

    Strategy & brief

    Commercial objectives, audience, brand voice and the content pillars for the cycle.

    You approve the brief and the month’s plan.

  2. 01

    Concepts and scripts

    Concept and script for each piece, with the opening hook already defined.

    You approve concepts and scripts.

  3. 02

    Storyboards

    Visual direction frame by frame: framing, cast, palette and pacing.

    You approve the look before anything is produced.

  4. 03

    Finished pieces

    Generation, score, voices, editing and finishing to a cinematic standard.

    You receive the piece ready to publish.

Revision policy

You can request changes at any of the four stages, without limit, while we are still in that stage.

If a change forces us to redo a stage you already approved — rewriting the script once the piece is edited, say — it is quoted separately. That rule is what keeps timelines and costs predictable for everyone.

06 — AI, disclosed

We are not trying to fool anyone.

We use artificial intelligence and we say so. Producing with AI is not a trick to be hidden: it is a technique, the way green screen and CGI were techniques.

Pretending we do not use it — that would be the problem. If a project demands that, we turn it down.

We never pass it off as real

A digital actor is a character, not a testimonial. We do not fabricate reviews or cases that never happened, and we do not replicate real people without written consent.

Disclosure by default

We label AI use unless your own policy says otherwise. On hybrid pieces we hand over the breakdown: what was shot and what was generated.

Exclusive cast, genuinely

Faces created under your subscription are yours, and are used with no other brand — not by us, not by anyone.

Licensed voices and music

Every voice, track and effect is produced with commercial use cleared. No stock libraries shared with your competitors.

Nothing publishes without your sign-off

We deliver the final file; publishing is always controlled by your team, with the four-stage approval documented.

The IP is 100% yours

Pieces, characters and assets developed exclusively for you are registered to your company, permanently.

Nobody shares your mission. They share your stories.

Not six weeks for a single piece, and not whole afternoons wrestling with a tool. It is time to build your brand a real audience.

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