JourneyQuest
Directed by leonard j mckinzy
United States · 2026 · 3 min 3 sec · AI Film
Submitted to RTV International Film Festival 2026Synopsis
An AI-assisted short film with a simple, powerful message: no matter your age or where you come from, if you put your mind toward something, you can accomplish it.
Credits
Directed by leonard j mckinzy
About the film
JourneyQuest follows one recognizable central character through a hopeful journey, built to inspire viewers, especially children, to imagine what they can accomplish. The film combines several AI tools in one human-directed workflow: ChatGPT helped develop the script, Galaxy AI generated the imagery and kept the character consistent, and Grok turned those visuals into video clips. Every creative decision stayed human: selecting and rejecting material, assembling scenes, pacing the story, and the final edit in Adobe Premiere Pro.
Director(s)
leonard j mckinzy is a Kansas City filmmaker, pastor and founder of Grip Enterprises, with a degree in digital filmmaking from the Los Angeles Film School. He built CineForge, an AI filmmaking suite for scene building, character consistency and image-to-video production, and uses it to tell hopeful, story-first films.
Trailer
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RTV International Film Festival — Inaugural Online Edition · 2026