Ashwarya Gupta

A one-person AI film studio · Built after office hours

Sector 7

Seven levels. Seven memories.

How the studio evolved

Level 1 · Venice · July 2026

You’re chasing a reflection.

A ticket he never booked. A masked man who speaks in his voice. A woman who swears they’ve met before. It may not be his first visit to Sector 7. It may be his hundredth.

Made in
5 days
Runtime
3 min
Format
9:16 film

Submitted to AIME 2026 — Europe’s AI micro-drama competition, France

  • The DirectorThe DirectorWakes up in a new city every level
  • MayaMayaSwears they have met before
  • The Masked ManThe Masked ManSpeaks in the Director’s own voice

The studio, then and now

One director. An evolving studio.

Level 1 · Venice

1 film

in 5 days

Level 1 · Venice — hand-directed, shot by shot.

AugSepOctNovVeniceThe ShowPinki
Human taste

The process changed. The director didn’t.

Selected productions

Three worlds. One filmmaker.

Sector 7 · Level 1 — Venice

Film · Spy mystery

Sector 7 · Level 1 — Venice

The Ashwarya Gupta Show

Format · Hindi late-night talk show

The Ashwarya Gupta Show

An AI host, a desi family on the guest sofa, a studio audience that never gets tired.

Watch Episode 3 on YouTube ↗
Pinki Sharma Ki Prem Kahani

Series · Fully automated sitcom

Pinki Sharma Ki Prem Kahani

Pinki falls for an AI. Her family has opinions. Six episodes produced in four days.

Watch Part 1 on YouTube ↗

Behind the screen

Underneath it, a production system.

Human

Every line starts as a human idea.

Scripts are written and stress-tested against frontier models before a single frame is generated.

THE ASHWARYA GUPTA SHOW · EP 4 · COLD OPEN

बेटा विक्रम-9000, दस हज़ार GPU तो ठीक है… पर सरकारी नौकरी है क्या?

“Son, ten thousand GPUs is fine… but is it a government job?”

✓ Reviewed by two frontier models · situational, not verbal

Level 2 · Seoul teaser
Penny Lane, lounge singer at the Vermilion Room

Level 2 · In development

Next stop: Seoul.

He wakes up as somebody else’s chauffeur. A lounge singer called Penny Lane remembers him. He doesn’t remember her — yet.

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  • A film
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  • A brand world
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AI-generated performances and environments, using Ashwarya’s own digital likeness. Written, directed and engineered by Ashwarya Gupta. ← Back to the main site

Sector 7 · Level 1 — Venice · Written & directed by Ashwarya Gupta · Submitted to AIME 2026