Feature · Festival
Table for Twelve Billion
A chef who believes food is for the heart and an engineer who wants to feed twelve billion people invent a food replicator — only to discover that saving the world means giving away their life's work.
Toronto · Est. 2014
Stories, made like films. Built like software.
Synapz is an AI-native film studio. We write, direct, and finish features, series, and songs from Toronto — fusing sixteen years on set with a generative pipeline.
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Future Vision XPRIZE · 2026
Table for Twelve Billion
A Future Vision XPRIZE entry from Synapz. In near-future Toronto, nutrition has been solved — FullCell pills, pennies a meal — and people are quietly starving. Twin siblings Cora, a chef, and Raf, an engineer, build a food replicator in a garage. The machine prints ingredients; only her hands can make them into food. A warm family drama inside a technology story: tungsten kitchens and glass towers, grief and garlic, told at the scale of one household and twelve billion plates.
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A full-service entertainment company that ships cinema, not decks.
Founded in 2014 by Andrew Palmer — author, screenwriter, and award-winning director/producer. Computer Engineering at McMaster, Advanced TV & Film at Sheridan, then sixteen years on set as an assistant director in Toronto, Vancouver, Winnipeg, and Halifax, including Suits and The Boys. DGC, WGC, CMPA. Synapz was built to make Canadian entertainment. He later co-founded SAGA to give filmmakers the tools he wished he had on a first feature.
16
Years on set — since 2010
90
Days to cut a feature — Awake
2
Cities: Toronto & San Francisco
Selected work
The slate
Feature · In Production
Awake
A VR visionary haunted by his sister's accident builds a quantum AI to rewrite the nightmare — and can no longer tell which life is the real one.
Feature · In Production
Vicious Cycle
A waitress trying to have a baby discovers the fertility clinic, the governor, and her best friend are part of the same machine. Some cycles only break with a gun.
Feature · In Development
That Will Never Work
A salesman who can't stop iterating and a CEO who wants a company that scales start a DVD-by-mail business — and spend years being told that will never work.
Short · Released
The Last Shift
What if the robot taking your job wasn't a tragedy — but a liberation?
Short · Released
Crave
In a merciless desert, a fennec fox named Kael turns hunger into a hunt — and rain into triumph.
Series · In Development
Turf Wars
A Toronto tow-truck dynasty. A stroke. A son-in-law with a sniper's patience. And a daughter already past the point of no return.
Feature · In Development
The Bridge
A campus romance and a 1907 disaster, cut together: the Quebec Bridge begins to fail, and a century later two students learn why engineers wear the iron ring.
In production
Awake
A VR visionary haunted by his sister's accident builds a quantum AI to rewrite the nightmare — and can no longer tell which life is the real one. One director. Ninety days. A generative feature built in public.
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Script to screen, one room.
Pre-production, production, and finish — treatments, boards, picture, score — run through the same desk. Generative tools accelerate craft. They do not replace it.
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Story
Logline, theme, and character through SAGA. Treatment to draft with writers who have been on set.
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Picture
Unreal, motion capture, and generative cinema. 4K, drone, and classical coverage when the scene needs a lens.
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Sound
Original songs, scores, and soundscapes from a music desk with thirty years of performance behind it.
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Finish
Edit, grade, motion graphics, and delivery for festival, streamer, or the feed — whatever the story needs.
SAGA
The tool we build films with.
Andrew and Russell Palmer co-founded SAGA — an AI screenwriting and filmmaking app from logline to previz. Synapz is the studio that proves the pipeline on real titles.
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Features, series, music, books, branded worlds. If it needs to move an audience, it belongs here.
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