Director’s note

“Lulu is a techno drama that aims to explore the effects that the recent advances in AI might have on society. It presents a possible future profession [content-moderation tangent] and the harrowing effects it could have on those who choose it as their vocation. It is, I believe, a very plausible future and one we should prepare for. My hope with this film is to create an intimate exploration of the effects modern technology can have on the people who police it. While the future imagined in the film is speculative, it is informed by current trends. It is a story about trauma, corporate apathy, the erosion of reality and the consequences they can have on regular people.”

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We believe the film’s theme has global appeal, and our goal is to create a project that resonates internationally. To achieve this, collaboration with industry experts from different countries is essential. We are teaming up with the amazing Moderato [FR] and a group therapy [GER] who share our passion for this story and believe in its potential to reach audiences across borders. We were selected at LIM² development programme [2026]. We are seeking sales agents, broadcasters, distributors, and financing partners to join us on this journey. Partnering with creative talent from abroad will enrich the project, increase its visibility, and, with the support of reliable partners, further strengthen the film’s artistic statement.

Producer’s note

“These artificially generated images are so easily created that they can be produced by individuals with criminal intent, even without substantial technical knowledge. This contributes to the growing prevalence of child sexual abuse material, and as the volume increases, it becomes progressively more challenging for investigators to identify offenders or victims. Law enforcement will need to develop new investigative methods and tools to address these emerging challenges.” These are the words of Catherine De Bolle, Europol's Executive Director. 

Lulu marks my fourth collaboration with writer-director Angel Radev. Since we began working together in 2021, Angel has consistently proven himself to be a filmmaker unafraid of formal risk - someone who experiments with structure, time, and rhythm to push genre storytelling into more unsettling territory. 

His work explores the state of obsession and spiraling that often tests his characters’ limits, and his ability to stretch time creates a poetic ghostliness. In Lulu, that sensibility finds its most urgent expression yet.

My motivation for producing Lulu is deeply tied to a growing concern about the speed at which technological systems are introduced into everyday life without corresponding structures of care or protection for the people operating within them. As artificial intelligence and automated systems become increasingly embedded in society, responsibility is quietly displaced from corporations to individuals, from institutions to workers - often without protective measures in place.

History shows us that regulation tends to arrive only after damage has been done. Karl Benz built the first automobile in 1885. Yet it took over 80 years for comprehensive vehicle safety standards to be introduced. In today’s rapidly changing world, we are witnessing a similar delay in accountability in digital labor and AI-driven environments. Lulu responds to this gap - not as a manifesto, but as a human story that exposes the emotional and psychological cost of working inside opaque, profit-driven systems.

Angel does not intend to sensationalize technology with Lulu. Instead, he focuses on the people who police it, absorb its violence, and are expected to remain sane and functional. The film explores trauma, corporate apathy, and the slow erosion of the reality of ordinary people on the front line of the battle. Through a grounded, character-driven lens, it makes its speculative, very near future feel disturbingly plausible.

We believe Lulu has strong international relevance. Issues of digital labor, content moderation, and technological overreach transcend borders, and the film is being developed with this global resonance in mind. We are proud to be collaborating with our co-producers Moderato (France) and A Group Therapy (Germany), whose creative and ethical alignment has been invaluable. The project is selected for the LIM² Development Programme 2026, which confirms its artistic and thematic potential.

Lulu is a micro-budget feature, but one driven by ambition rather than limitation. With the right partners - sales agents, broadcasters, distributors, and financiers - we aim to create a film that is formally daring and socially resonant. At its core, this is a story about a group of misfits navigating extraordinary systems, and the quiet damage that occurs when progress moves faster than responsibility.