The Gifted wins Future Vision XPRIZE

Google, XPRIZE, and Range Media Partners announced the winner of the Future Vision XPRIZE, a global film competition focused on hopeful ideas about a technologyenabled future. Independent filmmaker Jeff Synthesized received the grand prize in Los Angeles for The Gifted. The film tells the story of an 11yearold boy who uses code to recreate the voice and essence of his late mother. The story follows how that creation ends up supporting the wider community, with the filmmaker highlighting empathy and human connection as central themes. The project was selected from more than 2,500 submissions worldwide. It won $100,000 and also received $2.5 million in feature production funding, with Google’s 100 ZEROS initiative helping to support plans to bring the story to theaters.