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The human layer in the age of AI.

Layer8 is a story studio for the age of AI. We create entertainment films and series, commercial and brand campaigns, and originals with live-action filmmaking and generative tools.

Credits across the team include Emmys®, The Dark Knight, The Flourist, Inception and Hitman: Agent 47. Consciousness is our code.

The next great leap in generative storytelling will be human.

AI is changing how the entertainment industry creates, and every iteration gives more power to those with stories worth telling.

Layer8 is the studio built for them: filmmakers and creators, moved by story, making art that resonates with the human soul.

What we feel

We make films with studios and brands, and stories of our own.

Original Stories

Our own stories, carried from the first spark to a world with life inside.

Entertainment

Films and series made with producers and studios who want audiences to feel something long after the credits.

Commercial production

Campaigns and brand films that give a brand a heartbeat.

Development

Ideas in their first breath, given a world and a face of their own.

The human layer

James Dubec

Narrative & flow
Co-founder

Yuri Alves

Story & rhythm
2x Emmy® winner

Ali Bach

Frame & feeling
Hitman: Agent 47

Dan Seddon

Illusion & impact
The Dark Knight, Inception, Skyfall
Kevin Mullins

Kevin Mullins

Code & scale
Co-founder
João Soares

João Soares

Post & pixels

Sebastian Pille

Sound & scape
Universal
Severin Daniels

Severin Daniels

Strategy & scope

Tools we work with

  • Kling AIElevenLabs
  • Luma AITopaz Labs
  • Higgsfieldfal
  • RunwayBlender
  • MidjourneyAdobe Firefly
  • SeaArtGoogle DeepMind Veo

What we believe

Awareness first

Every story is rooted in human consciousness. We give it room to breathe before we make a single frame.

humans in the loop

Filmmakers craft every call that shapes the picture. AI widens what they can reach, and it answers to them.

Lived stories

Grief and joy, love and loss. We make the stories people carry home, the ones that stay with them long after the screen goes dark.

One crew

Writers, directors, artists and technologists working as one, from the first page to the final frame. Every project gets the whole studio.

Experience the eighth layer.

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