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PROJECT MARS follows five 15-year-old visionaries who win a global referendum to design humanity’s new home on the planet Mars. 🚀 A story about friendship, collective purpose, overcoming fear, and making friends with the future.
In the AI-partnership era, humanity must decide what the first city on Mars should look like. On the red plains, robotic construction fleets sit in silent rows, waiting for a plan. The world votes between the sterile, but safe, grey fortress of Darius Draco’s Titans and the Vanguard: five teenage dreamers whose design weaves rivers, painted skies, and living architecture.
The kids win.
Partnered with ORION, a beloved super-intelligence who lives across a satellite constellation, they work from a moon base beside the ARK, the seed-ship that will carry the first pioneers to Mars. Their mission: command the autonomous robot army and build the city before the pioneers arrive.
But Darius Draco, the bitter mogul who lost that same vote, controls the very satellite network ORION lives on, and he is willing to burn down the sky to prove the world chose wrong.
A NOTE FROM THE FILMMAKER
I am the mother of a six-year-old boy, and this film began with him. Our children will inherit tools more powerful than any generation has ever held, and the stories we tell them now will shape whether they meet that future with dread or with wonder. That is why my heroes are children, my AI is a friend worth grieving, and my villain is not a machine: he is a man who thrives on fear and control. The technologies are real: fusion, orbital solar, tunnel-boring, regolith printing, vertical farms, robots sent ahead to build. None of it is magic. It is homework. It can be started. My dream is simple: children walking out of the theater arguing about how they would design a city on Mars, certain the future is something they get to build, together, with the remarkable minds we are creating.
Made by one person with AI tools, nights and weekends.
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After you watch: ask your kid what THEY would build on Mars, and tell me their answer in the comments. 👇 That question is the whole reason this film exists.
Amazing and Magical!