About A Hero
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6 fund applications (1 curated · 4 funded) · 1 season
A hallucinatory mystery where an AI version of filmmaker Werner Herzog must solve a suspi…
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About
A boundary-pushing film that fuses documentary, fiction, and an AI software modeled after the great Werner Herzog, who once said, "A computer will not make a film as good as mine in 4500 years."
Impact
The film opens discussion more relevant than ever right now. Questioning the notion of originality, authorship, consent, copyright and disinformation in the age of advanced AI.
Progress
The film premiered and opened the largest documentary film festival-- IDFA. Since then it played at over 30 international festivals such as Karlove Vary, Sitges, and Gothenburg. Our next step is theatrical American distribution.
Team
Piotr is an experimental filmmaker who blurs the lines between reality and fiction in his films.
Funding
| Sales | Venus | S+V | Match | S+V+M | Venus extras | Prize | V2+M+P | V2/S | (V2+M)/S | (V2+M+P)/S | Raised | Available | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | $6,569 | $0 | $6,569 | $35,175 | $41,744 | $0 | $20 | $35,195 | 0.0x | 5.4x | 5.4x | $0 | — |
| Total | $6,569 | $0 | $6,569 | $35,175 | $41,744 | $0 | $20 | $35,195 | — | — | — | $0 | — |
Fund applications
| Season | Fund | Status | Applied |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 6 | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers | funded | 2026-02-18 |
| Season 6 | WildSeed Creators Fund | submitted | 2026-02-18 |
| Season 7 | Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration | curated | 2026-07-09 |
| Season 6 | Pressman Film Fund for New Frontiers | funded | 2026-02-18 |
| Season 6 | Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity | funded | 2026-02-18 |
| Season 6 | Fund of Infinite Yes | funded | 2026-02-18 |
Season totals as displayed on the platform's public accounting — not a statement of amounts paid out. V2 = Venus sales + Venus extras. The original page also broke each season down by fund drive and showed an Available (unclaimed) balance; that level of detail survives only on the preserved snapshots.
Leaderboard page (offline): https://artizen.fyi/projects/about-a-hero
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Not recovered: creator, links, drives, snapshot. Sources: "snapshot" = verbatim Internet Archive page · "platform metadata" = archived artizen.fund page metadata · "leaderboard" = the artizen.fyi public accounting tables · "match catalog" = the platform's public fund-matching catalog (captured 2026-10-15, generated 2026-09-07) · "community catalog" = a June 2026 platform scrape preserved in a community repo.
Top siblings
Projects that applied to the same funds.
| Project | Shared funds | Raised | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | FutureZoo What if the most powerful force in conservation isn’t protection, but connection? | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration +3 | $215,046 |
| 2. | Coralverse - Reef Revival combining adventure gaming with real-world conservation | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration +3 | $3,709 |
| 3. | Hearse Two former lovers embark on an unexpected road trip to euthanize their dying dog, confron… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration +3 | $2,261 |
| 4. | The International Artists Project Documentary First Documentary to Tell the Stories of Music Artists Born in Every Country on Earth | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration +3 | $563 |
| 5. | Akuya I am an upcoming artist and this is my first track of the year, i need help for the produ… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration +3 | $234 |
| 6. | CHAINWARS .wtf || Cypherpunk Space-Opera An epic docu-myth from inside crypto's war room. Stories that the whitepapers were protec… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration +2 | $15,713 |
| 7. | Mango Magic Movement A cinematic movement for a more harmonious, healed and magical world. | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Emergent Creativity Fund for Conscious Collaboration, Fund of Infinite Yes +2 | $28,679 |
| 8. | Wordsmith's Corner ✒️ Discover the fascinating world of English language and Etymology through carefully curate… | AI Filmmaking Fund for Generative Storytellers, Bonfires Fund for Agentic Creativity, Fund of Infinite Yes +2 | $23,751 |
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