Cinder County Line
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The story
When a wildfire severs every paved route, an Indigenous paramedic and a retired rail mechanic must carry a temperature-sensitive donor heart across twenty miles of abandoned logging track before its cooling window closes.
- Original title
- Cinder County Line
- Country / region
- United States
- Genres
- Action · Drama · Thriller
- Language
- English
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 106:00
- Director
- Kendra Lowry
Creative process
Humans retain final control over script, casting intent, performance direction, shot selection, continuity, edit, sound, color, safety review, and release approval.
Completed on January 7, 2026 and theatrically released on January 20, 2026; completed and released as of July 17, 2026. Human-authored brief and shot list; supervised current-model generation; manual edit; licensed sound and color finishing; legal, safety and technical quality control.
- AI participation (source-declared)
- 75%
- Creative method
- Live action with AI
- Format
- Feature film
- Resolution
- 4K
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39:1
- Frame rate
- 23.976
- Delivery format
- DCP 4K Scope + ProRes 422 HQ archival master
- Subtitles
- English · French · German · Korean · Japanese · Thai