The Smile Factory
A dental hygienist working at a corporate wellness plant discovers that the factory is manufacturing smiles for executives who cannot feel joy.
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The story
Tessa takes a temp job polishing ceramic smiles in a bright industrial lab. The products are shipped to leadership retreats, television debates, and apology videos. When one rejected smile begins laughing in her locker, Tessa organizes the night shift to shut down a company that treats happiness as hardware.
- Original title
- The Smile Factory
- Land / Region
- Vereinigte Staaten · Vereinigtes Königreich
- Genres
- Komödie · Horror · Thriller
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Year
- 2027
- Runtime
- 83:00
- Director
- Nina Bell
Creative process
Director, editor, rights reviewer, English dialogue editor and US rights reviewer, and producer approve creative, legal, and cultural outputs.
Human-led story development, screenplay polish, casting bible, and rights review; Runway Gen-4.5 for primary cinematic plates; Google Veo 3.1 with Flow for physics, camera blocking, and alternate motion passes; Runway Aleph 2.0 for shot-level transformation and continuity fixes; Blender, Houdini, DaVinci Resolve Studio 20, Pro Tools, native-language review, and C2PA export.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75 %
- Creative method
- Realfilm mit KI
- Format
- Langfilm
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 24 fps
- Delivery format
- 4K DCP, ProRes 4444 XQ master, H.265 review screener.
- Subtitles
- Englisch · Koreanisch · Japanisch · Thailändisch · Französisch · Spanisch · Deutsch