Nocheztli Studio · 2026
A film and series about the fall of Tenochtitlan (1519–1521), told through Malintzin — every shot sourced, every frame generated, produced end to end with AI video.
- Client
- Nocheztli Studio
- Role
- Writer · director · AI production pipeline
- Year
- 2026
Outcomes
Context
My own studio. TEMIXTITAN tells the Conquest without shortcuts: every shot carries a certainty tag — documented, debated, myth or creative license — tied to primary sources such as the Florentine Codex, Bernal Díaz and Cortés's letters. Mexica characters speak Nahuatl only from attested texts or a nahuatlato's translation. The challenge was making generative video hold up to that standard of rigor and continuity.
What I built
- 01
A series bible and source corpus: chronology, names, myths vs. evidence and a visual guide, plus a five-season architecture and companion books.
- 02
An AI production pipeline on Higgsfield (CLI + API): character sheets with Nano Banana Pro, and shots with Veo 3.1, Kling and Seedance 2.5, including multi-shot sequences, video extension and lip-sync.
- 03
Sound: ElevenLabs narration in Spanish and English, Seed Audio foley, scored music and loudness-normalized mixes.
- 04
Python + FFmpeg tooling for editing, vertical 9:16 cuts, subtitles and review pages, plus a production manual of measured model behaviour and cost per second.
- 05
Releases: a bilingual teaser, the prologue “The Night”, the Day of the Dead short “Los huesos preciosos”, social shorts and EPUB books.
