Afro Futcha (Diane Laidlaw)
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About Afro Futcha (Diane Laidlaw)
Afro Futcha is the creative alias of Diane Laidlaw, a multi-award-winning British AI filmmaker, creative technologist and music producer. Her work fuses Black culture across the diaspora with a dark, emotionally charged visual language rooted in horror, psychological narrative and Afro-futurism. She gravitates towards misunderstood characters and stories of systemic failure. Her wins include: 1st place at Project Odyssey 2025 Winner at Jeju Global (Korea), Escape Ai The Chroma Awards, PixVerse and Neuromasters and several others/ Most Inspirational Woman of Web3 and AI at the WOW Awards She has also been a finalist at the Austin AI Film Festival and Runway's Gen:48 as well as many others. Her debut feature film, 6 Minutes (43 min), was released in 2026 She spoke at TED AI Vienna in 2025, where a 90-minute programme of her work was screened Afro Future continues making films as well as teach Ai Filmmaking techniques in a number of workshops and seminars worldwide
Give It to Me
A retro-inspired music video blending Blaxploitation, disco and Afrofuturism. An alien invasion becomes a story about gentrification and the displacement of Black communities. Jeju Global AI Film Festival winner and Austin Film Festival finalist.
Working with Afro
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