# JAILBIRD

- Date: 2025-06-05
- Type: film
- Credit: Andrew Salter
- Genre: Documentary, Comedy
- Artists: [Andrew Salter](https://aifilmhistory.org/artist/andrew-salter)
- Award: Gold — Runway AIFF 2025 — Runway AI Film Festival 2025
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNo-OvoHgCg
- URL: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/jailbird-salter

A quasi-documentary told by a chicken that is sent to a British prison, part of a real program that places hens with inmates as companion animals, and a look at how it helps both the birds and the people who care for them. Andrew Salter drew illustrated storyboards first, described each drawing to AI and refined the results until every shot worked, which gave him chicken's-eye footage a small production could never have filmed. Everything but the drawings at the end is generated. The crowd loved it, Ars Technica reported, and it won Gold at [Runway's 2025 AI Film Festival](https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/aiff-2025).

Links:
- JAILBIRD on Andrew Salter's channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-87zR06PkOc
- About the film, on andrewtsalter.com: https://andrewtsalter.com/jailbird

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Source: https://aifilmhistory.org/entry/jailbird-salter
Era: 2025 · The Studio Era
Last updated: 2026-10-19