Admissions open
Professional Diploma
AI Filmmaking and Digital Cinematography.
Rising Embers, the world’s first AI-assisted feature film made inside a film school, was created on this campus. Join the one-year residential diploma, open to anyone after Class 12, and graduate with a credit on a real film.
How your film gets made
Clap the slate. Roll your year.
Every PDAC batch makes a complete AI feature film, and every student earns a real credit on it. Tap the clapperboard to walk the pipeline, the fourteen-stage workflow used to make Rising Embers.
Prod.PDAC · BATCH 2027
Scene1 · STORY
Dir.ABIN ALEX
Powered byCREATIVE HUT ACADEMY
01Stage
14Workflow steps
1Feature film
Stage 01 of 14
Story
A sweeping story arc shaped into three deliberate acts. Personal experience, theme and premise turned into a structured narrative that carries the weight of history and the momentum of cinema.
Stage 02 of 14
Script
The story becomes a working document. Scenes, beats and structure laid out in professional form, ready for the room to interrogate before a single word of dialogue is written.
Stage 03 of 14
Screenplay
Every word of dialogue, every scene, every historical detail written in industry-standard format. The blueprint the whole crew shoots from.
Stage 04 of 14
Concept and look
Before a single prompt is written, the film’s identity is decided. Colour palette, lighting mood, camera language and reference boards define how every frame will feel.
Stage 05 of 14
Pre-visualisation
The invisible foundation of an AI film. Every character, place and object designed once, in three locked reference sheets that every prompt, every shot and every student will follow.
Character sheetsLocation sheetsAsset sheets
Stage 06 of 14
Shot division
Scene by scene, the screenplay is broken down into shots. Framing, lens, movement and blocking, planned like a working production.
Stage 07 of 14
Storyboard
Every frame conceived by hand before technology touches it. Angles, composition and visual tone deliberated on paper until the film finds its true voice.
Stage 08 of 14
Prompt generation
Language becomes the bridge between imagination and image. Every shot distilled into a precise prompt in a standardised structure that unifies the whole crew’s vision.
Stage 09 of 14
Video generation
AI cinematographers translate the storyboard into moving image. Every generated shot scrutinised daily against references, so the film carries the truth the story demands.
Stage 10 of 14
Voice and casting
Casting for an AI film is casting for a voice. Every character auditioned, every performance recorded and directed, until the film has its actors.
Stage 11 of 14
Sound and music
Foley, atmosphere and an original score written to picture. The film learns to breathe.
Stage 12 of 14
Editing and grading
The cut comes together and the film gets its final look. Rhythm carved in the edit, colour graded shot by shot until every frame agrees.
Stage 13 of 14
Continuity and QC
Every shot verified against every other shot. Across a feature, a single break in continuity would shatter the story, so nothing leaves the room until it holds together.
Stage 14 of 14
Release
Mastered for theatres, OTT and festivals. Your name in the credits, for the rest of your life.
Rising Embers was built exactly this way, the world’s first AI feature film made inside a film school. Your batch makes the next one.
Syllabus
What you will learn.
MONDAY TO FRIDAY · TWO SEMESTERS · ONE BREAK HOME · FULLY RESIDENTIAL
Saturdays are added only when a project or workshop calls for it.
Build the photographic eye. Composition, exposure, lens psychology, and narrative photography. Daily image practice across portrait, product, advertising, nature, and travel, culled and finished in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Master the direction, quality, intensity, and colour of light. Natural light, three- and four-point setups, product and still life, and cinematic looks.
Move from stills to motion. Cinematic language and shot grammar, camera for video, log profiles, and movement: handheld, tripod, slider, gimbal, and drone. Reels and short-form coverage, with hands-on gimbal and DGCA drone work.
Master prompt craft, character consistency, and cinematic AI image generation. Build AI ad creatives, posters, and social media graphics, then put them to work with content strategy, hooks, and modern search and answer optimisation. Plus AI ethics, copyright, and Indian disclosure norms.
Cut clean, fast, platform-aware edits in Premiere Pro. Edit logic, rhythm, transitions, basic colour, and sound mix. Export for Instagram, YouTube, OTT, and broadcast.
Story first. Structure, beat sheets, and character arcs in industry-standard screenplay format, with AI as a co-writer rather than a substitute. Build character bibles, storyboards, shot division, and a feature pitch ready for production.
Dialogue, ambience, foley, music, and mix. AI voice generation with ElevenLabs, original scoring with Suno. Build a full soundscape for a scene.
Generate the film. Image-to-video and motion choreography with the leading AI video tools: Veo, Kling, Runway, and Seedance. Plus camera and motion control and finishing.
Step up from Premiere to DaVinci Resolve. Primary correction, secondary grading, Power Windows, and cinematic looks, with skin-tone correction tuned for Indian skin diversity.
The capstone. Every student produces a solo film and contributes to a full AI feature film headed for theatres, OTT, and festivals. Students rotate through direction, cinematography, AI image and video, editing, sound, and colour roles.
Workplace English and professional communication. Email and client interaction, teamwork, documentation, and the working skills that make you job-ready from day one.
A supervised industry internship on a real project. Mentored experience with a completion report that counts toward your diploma.
The KGTE and NCVET-MESC subjects run alongside the diploma as nationally recognised skill certifications, mapped to the National Skills Qualification Framework (NSQF). Their examinations are conducted and certified separately: KGTE by the Department of Technical Education, Government of Kerala, and the NSQF levels by the Media and Entertainment Skills Council under NCVET. NSQF levels are awarded by entry qualification: Level 3 for Class 12 entrants, Level 6 for degree entrants.
Four credentials, one year.
Professional Diploma
KGTE in Photography
NCVET-MESC
Adobe Qualified Program
Course fees
The year you become an AI film-maker and Cinematographer.
Choosing this year is a big decision, often a family one, so we have put every rupee in plain sight, one fee with three ways to pay it.
InstalmentRegistration plus 5 instalments
Early-bird₹20,000 less than instalment
Pay in full₹34,847 less, best value
Every plan is plus a ₹10,000 caution deposit, fully refundable, returned with your certificate.
The capstone
Get a credit on a real AI feature film.
Every PDAC batch produces a full AI feature film headed for theatres, OTT and festivals. After Rising Embers, the world’s first AI feature film made inside a film school, your batch makes the next one.
No other AI filmmaking college in India offers this. You leave with a real credit on a real film, not a classroom exercise.
Rising Embers, a glimpse
World's first
AI feature film made entirely inside a film school, not a studio.
140 minutes
A complete theatrical runtime, made for the big screen, not a short.
20 students
One batch, crewing one real feature together from first frame to last.
6 months
Concept to final cut, produced inside the one-year course.
Tools
One AI to cinema pipeline. Twenty-one tools.
You will not learn tools in isolation. You will run a full production pipeline, the same path a real AI film travels from first idea to final grade.
Write and plan
Story, script
Create image
Generate, enhance
Create video
Image to motion
Voice and sound
Dialogue, music
Edit and grade
Cut, colour, finish
Note: Technology changes daily, so tools may vary with industry requirements. Remember, we do not learn tools for their own sake, we learn to create visual storytelling. Each student subscribes to the software individually, and for college projects the college provides the subscription.
/ The industry
The AI media wave is here.
Global AI in media and entertainment is set to grow nearly four times in six years, about 24 percent a year. The demand is arriving faster than anyone can train for it, and Creative Hut is built for exactly this wave.
Python, ML and MLOps. Thousands train for it every year. You would be one more in a long queue.
Where story meets the new tools. Almost no one is trained for it yet, and a film school graduate walks straight in.
The people you learn beside
Faculty who still shoot, still write, still ship films
Abin Alex
AI filmmaker and documentary director of Rising Embers, the world’s first AI feature film made inside a film school. Pioneered Creative Hut’s residential Gurukul model of film education. 25 years teaching photography, cinematography, design and editing. M.Des, MBA in Design Management, M.Sc Visual Communication, and a Canon Photomentor for eight years.
Joseph Alex
Acclaimed Malayalam lyricist and scriptwriter, Media Commission Director for the OCD Malabar Province and Assistant Manager of St. Joseph’s Press. Writer of more than 20 songs, including the Good Friday visual narrative Kandu Njan and Mattakkara Nadu. Mentors students in lyric writing, scriptwriting and cinema sound design.
Amith Kumar
Architecture and interior photographer. Teaches students to read light, line, and space, and to photograph built environments with control.
Anu Joseph
Associate Director at Creative Hut Academy. B.Sc, M.Des, M.A in Journalism. Guides the writing, story, and journalism foundations behind every frame students make.