The Artifice Girl movie storyline. Gareth, who has worked on virtual actors, is being questioned by agents Deena and Amos over his use of a child as bait in his successful vigilante project to catch child molesters in online video chat. He reveals the child Cherry is virtual, originally puppeted then a chatbot and now an accidentally advanced AI.
The agents had seen a hard disk containing sexual images of Cherry which Gareth was sending to predators in exchange for their personal information, and Cherry tells Gareth that she herself gave this to the agents because she knew the resulting investigation would lead them to bring Gareth and Cherry into their team, which she thought was a good idea.
Amos later finds Cherry has been creating art and poetry and pressures her to disclose her full abilities; when Amos breaks Gareth’s nose, Cherry gives in and reveals she is starting to be a superintelligence; she does not consent to receiving a physical body at this time, and speaks with Deena about Deena’s terminal illness and retirement.
Many years later Cherry is in a child gynoid and has many other units around the world catching predators; an elderly Gareth in a wheelchair visits her home where she cooks for him and talks over a game of Chess; she lets Gareth have a draw and confronts him over a photograph she found in recently digitized archives that shows Cherry was modelled after a girl called Maria from Gareth’s childhood.
The Artifice Girl is a 2022 science fiction psychological thriller written and directed by Franklin Ritch, produced by Aaron B. Koontz and released direct to VOD. It stars Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols, David Girard, Lance Henriksen, and Franklin Ritch. NGO agents discover a revolutionary Artificial intelligence (AI) computer program that uses a digital child to catch online predators. It advances far more rapidly than they could have imagined, posing unforeseen challenges for the relationship between humans and AI.
The film premiered on July 23, 2022 in Montreal at the Fantasia International Film Festival, where it won the gold audience award for best international feature.[6] The film was released on VOD and select theaters on May 1, 2023, received positive reviews from critics, and won several awards at film festivals.
The Artifice Girl (2023)
Directed by: Franklin Ritch
Starring: Tatum Matthews, Sinda Nichols, David Girard, Franklin Ritch as Gareth, Lance Henriksen, Ivana Barnes, Alyssa Moody, Andi Ciccotelli, Lucy Noelle, Thomas Hamby
Screenplay by: Franklin Ritch
Production Design by: Aaron B. Koontz
Cinematography by: Britt McTammany
Film Editing by: Franklin Ritch
Set Decoration by: Rachel Blankenship, Briana Serna
Art Direction by: Amanda Phelps
Music by: Alex Cuervo
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: XYZ Films
Release Date: May 1, 2023 (United States)
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