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A special screening of Andrew DeYoung’s comedy “Friendship,” starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd, and the closing-night selection of Neo Sora’s coming-of-age story “Happyend” will both also have their West Coast premieres.

Just months after OpenAI launched its controversial text-to-video artificial intelligence tool Sora for the general paying public, the company is making its sales pitch directly to L.A.’s filmmakers and digital creators.

This week, the ChatGPT maker screened 11 short films made with Sora on the big screen at Brain Dead Studios, a movie theater on Fairfax Avenue.

The event, called Sora Selects, aimed to showcase filmmakers using Sora while also marketing the technology.

Since Sora launched, creatives have used the tool to make music videos, animation, commercials and other projects.