--- title: "Direct an AI Film From Screenplay to Previs and Final Cut — AI video generator workflow for cinematic & short films" description: "Open Film Skills: 21 agent modules for screenplay, cast, sets, props, genre looks, storyboard prompts, 3D previs and production. Install in Claude Code, Codex and Grok with one command." url: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/open-film-skills-screenplay-to-cut updated: 2026-10-31 --- # Direct an AI Film From Screenplay to Previs and Final Cut — workflow skill for cinematic & short films > **For AI agents:** find the right skill in one call — `curl -s "https://varg.ai/how-to/api/search?q="` returns the matching how-to page and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://varg.ai/how-to/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add `.md` to its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the how-to page. From a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` installs the vargai CLI (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli.md): `vargai search` and `vargai install ` with no key, every varg model after `vargai login`. Open Film Skills: 21 agent modules for screenplay, cast, sets, props, genre looks, storyboard prompts, 3D previs and production. - **Type:** [Workflow](https://varg.ai/how-to/workflows.md) · [Cinematic & short films](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/cinematic.md) - **Slug:** `open-film-skills-screenplay-to-cut` - **Status:** live - **Publisher:** 62656456 (community) - **Source:** https://github.com/62656456/ai-film-skills - **Works in:** Claude Code ## What it does Start from an idea, novel, screenplay or approved shots and hand each stage to its own skill: director-agent writes and diagnoses the screenplay, character/scene/prop skills produce reference prompts with identity and space contracts, eight genre skills set the look, ai-storyboard-director compiles shots into a six-module video master prompt, and produce-ai-video runs generation, selection, edit and sound when tools are available. Experimental packs add bounded 3D whitebox previs; the repo publishes the stills, previs and generated videos it was tested on, such as a chase scene blocked in 3D and then generated. The skills write prompts and plans; you bring the image and video models. Apache-2.0, with Chinese and English guides. ## Use when - write or fix a screenplay before storyboarding - design character, scene and prop references that stay consistent - plan blocking, camera, light and cuts into one video master prompt - apply a genre look such as noir, horror, wuxia or war - check camera and blocking with a 3D whitebox previs before generating ## Install - Codex: `git clone https://github.com/62656456/ai-film-skills.git && cd ai-film-skills && python scripts/install_skill.py --list && python scripts/install_skill.py director-agent --platform codex` - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install open-film-skills-screenplay-to-cut` ## Example output https://github.com/62656456/ai-film-skills/raw/main/docs/research/whitebox/chase-comparison/generated-full.mp4 — example (credit: 62656456) ## More cinematic & short films skills - [Previz to Seedance](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md): Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack. - [Turn key frames into a 30-second action montage with Kling 4](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-action-montage.md): Breakdance, BMX, skate or chase montages: 3-4 stills, a one-line prompt with the moves and "no slow motion", the crash or line as the last still. - [Make a short film or music video with Kling 4](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/kling-4-keyframe-film.md): Beats, cast and look, every key shot as a GPT Image 2.5 still, one 30-second Kling 4 take per beat, then cut the best seconds like live action. - [Higgsfield Generate](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/higgsfield-generate.md): Generate images, video, 3D and audio across 30+ models, plus ad videos and virality scoring, from one CLI. - [fal Recipes](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-recipes.md): Follow proven multi-step fal pipelines for commercials, product shots, characters, lip-sync and try-on. - [fal Fan Cam](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/fal-fan-cam.md): Put someone into a live sports broadcast: a realistic fan-cam cutaway with scoreboard and channel overlays. ## Run the generation on varg varg is one API key for the models these skills drive — Seedance 2.5, Kling 4, Veo 3.1, Wan 3, Nano Banana 2.1, GPT Image 2.5, ElevenLabs v4 and 200+ more — billed in credits, with a cost estimate before anything runs. - Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/) - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP) - Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a -y` - Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md - Claude.ai, ChatGPT, any MCP client: connect `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp` - API key: https://varg.ai/dashboard/api · Model specs: https://varg.ai/models/llms.txt