Runway opens AI Film Festival ticket sales with Ron Howard and 10 finalists

• Runway opened ticket sales for its AI Film Festival in New York, with tickets routed through the official festival site and the announcement posted in Runway's event post.
• The program packages a pre-show conversation with Ron Howard alongside 10 finalist films, according to Runway's announcement.
• Runway is framing the night as a broader creative showcase, with Best of Advertising, Design, New Media, Gaming, and Fashion listed in the main event post.
• In Cristóbal Valenzuela's post, the Runway CEO said he is joining Ron Howard on stage, which adds a founder-led onstage component to the screening lineup.

You can grab tickets on Runway's AI Film Festival page, skim the full one-post program in Runway's announcement, and see in Cristóbal Valenzuela's post that the Ron Howard conversation is being pitched as a marquee part of the night.

Runway's core announcement is compact but specific. The New York event opens with a conversation featuring Ron Howard, then moves into 10 finalist films and a separate Best of slate that spans advertising, design, new media, gaming, and fashion.

That category mix is the interesting bit. Runway is not presenting the festival as a single-medium AI film screening, but as a wider creative-program package that pulls multiple adjacent disciplines into the same night.

The ticket call-to-action is a standalone post that points directly to aif.runwayml.com. In practice, that splits the launch into two pieces: one post that sells the lineup, and one post that does nothing except move people to the ticket page.

For a low-volume event announcement, that usually means the page itself is the product surface. The social post is just the doorway.

Cristóbal Valenzuela, Runway's CEO, added one detail that the main ticket post does not spell out in first person: he said he is excited to share the stage and chat with Ron Howard at this year's festival.

That makes the opening conversation more than a guest appearance. It positions the pre-show as an onstage exchange between Hollywood and one of the companies pushing generative video furthest into mainstream creative culture.