# Runway — Netflix and FutureCel Still Let the Story Be the Why

- Company: Runway (runway.com)
- Announced: 2026-08-03T15:36:30.382000+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://runway.com/news/company-news/netflix-aif-2026
- Record: https://forck.live/items/7861-netflix-and-futurecel-still-let-the-story-be-the-why
- Subject: Gen / Aleph

Netflix's Senior Director of Creative Innovation Girish Balakrishnan and FutureCel founder Joel Kuwahara discussed the role of AI in filmmaking and animation at the 2026 Runway AI Festival, emphasizing that tools should serve storytelling.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://runway.com/news/company-news/netflix-aif-2026:

> One works inside the world's biggest streamer, the other builds studios from scratch, and they arrive at the same conviction from opposite ends of the business. The tools are the means, and the story is the why.

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