Borrowed Wounds
Short filmTop 50 · Higgsfield
- Category
- Short film
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 13 min 30 s + 52 s credits
- Festival
- Higgsfield Global Film Festival Top 50, out of 6,700 films
- Format
- 2520 × 1080 · 21:9 · 30 fps
- Note
- Top 50 · Higgsfield
Jeff Zambrano.
AI film director · Madrid
I direct AI films through meticulous preparation, designing their world before generating its images.
Selected work
01 / 07Reels made from Borrowed Wounds
Reels9:16
- Category
- Reels
- Year
- 2026
- Music
- I wrote and produced 13 original songs with AI.
- Note
- 9:16
Alaska & Zeus
Comedy reels and seriesInstagram
- Category
- Comedy reels and series
- Year
- 2026
- Format
- 9:16
- Tools
- Higgsfield Genjutsu · Seedance 2.5 · Nano Banana Pro
- Status
- Reels released; Dog Tales in production; Good Dogs in preproduction
- Note
Dog Tales: Alice
SeriesIn production
- Category
- Series
- Year
- 2026
- Opening adaptation
- Alice in Wonderland
- Status
- 14 tales have taken shape; the first, Alice in Wonderland, is in production
- Note
- In production
- Category
- Action horror short
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 5 min 31 s planned
- Status
- Development paused; video not generated
- Tools
- Nano Banana Pro · Seedance 2.5
- Note
- In development
- Category
- Haunted-house film
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 12 min 09 s planned
- Language
- English
- Status
- In development · Paused
- Note
- In development
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The film’s reach
A film’s life continues with its audience. Alongside Borrowed Wounds’ festival shortlist selection, I record views of the film and my Instagram work, preserving the date of each reading.
Top 50Entries count · October 12, 2026
Higgsfield festival shortlist
Borrowed Wounds was selected from 6,700 films submitted to the Higgsfield Global Film Festival.
20.9KYouTube · read on October 14, 2026
Full film views
20,920 views of Borrowed Wounds on YouTube.
9.8KHiggsfield · read on October 14, 2026
Festival film views
Borrowed Wounds recorded 9,846 views and 423 likes on Higgsfield.
1.1MInstagram · read on October 12, 2026
Instagram views
My account recorded 1,102,482 views over the 30 days ending October 12, 2026.
5,618Instagram · read on October 12, 2026
Instagram followers
My following reached 5,618, up 20% in 30 days from 4,678 on September 13, 2026.
737KScreenshot · October 8, 2026
Alaska’s pinned reel
Instagram recorded 737,000 views at the October 8, 2026 counter reading.
150Library count · September 8, 2026
Cinema Lab
Cinematic choices begin with understanding their possibilities. This free bilingual library brings together 150 film techniques and reference films, with an assistant that develops your story into shots for image and video generation.
23453 countries · October 14, 2026
AI Film Circuit
Finding an audience means finding the right call. Recorded October 14, 2026: 234 opportunities across 53 countries for AI films and series in 2026 and 2027, with entry requirements.
I design before generating
Continuity begins with preparation. For Borrowed Wounds, I completed the characters, costumes, props, locations and drawings of every planned shot before generating the film, giving each wound its own visual reference.
01
Story and bible
I establish the story through its synopsis, world rules, characters and scenes.
02
Props
I design each object once, accounting for every angle the camera will see.
03
Outfits
Every costume, for every character.
04
Character sheets
Each reference sheet follows a physical state: dry linen, soaked linen, another wound.
05
Locations
I scout and generate each location before filming begins there.
06
Storyboard
I visualise each shot’s camera, light and style before generating it.
My short-form work
Short-form work lets me move between dramatic intensity and comedy. I create reels from Borrowed Wounds and AI comedies starring my dogs, Alaska and Zeus, whose series Dog Tales is also in production.
Hane kneels through the victories
At the edge of the sand, Hane kneels beneath the burden of his swordsman’s wounds.
Blood enters the ink
Black ink gives way to blood red in this reel drawn from Borrowed Wounds.
Alaska and Zeus dancing
A hallway becomes a dance floor for my dogs Alaska and Zeus in AI comedy.
The cast before generation
Each character’s continuity begins with the reference sheet I design before generation, including their changing wounds.
Alaska as Alice
Alaska enters Wonderland in the opening of Alice, chapter one of Dog Tales.
The bleeding man is unarmed
As two swordsmen fight, the man bleeding beside them holds no sword of his own.
Alaska drums, Zeus plays keys
A viral Chinese song brings Alaska to the drums and Zeus to the keyboard.
The man beside the duel
Kneeling beside the duel, a man bears the wounds of a fight that belongs to others.
Knee marks in the sand
In Borrowed Wounds, the marks of knees in sand give suffering a visible, physical trace.
Tools I work with
HiggsfieldSeedance 2.5Kling 3.0Wan 3.0MiniMax H3Seedream 5.0 ProNano Banana ProNano Banana 2.1GPT Image 2.5GPT Image 2TopazElevenLabsPremiere ProAfter EffectsClaudeChatGPTCodexHiggsfieldSeedance 2.5Kling 3.0Wan 3.0MiniMax H3Seedream 5.0 ProNano Banana ProNano Banana 2.1GPT Image 2.5GPT Image 2TopazElevenLabsPremiere ProAfter EffectsClaudeChatGPTCodex
CodexChatGPTClaudeAfter EffectsPremiere ProElevenLabsTopazGPT Image 2GPT Image 2.5Nano Banana 2.1Nano Banana ProSeedream 5.0 ProMiniMax H3Wan 3.0Kling 3.0Seedance 2.5HiggsfieldCodexChatGPTClaudeAfter EffectsPremiere ProElevenLabsTopazGPT Image 2GPT Image 2.5Nano Banana 2.1Nano Banana ProSeedream 5.0 ProMiniMax H3Wan 3.0Kling 3.0Seedance 2.5Higgsfield
Madrid
A short biography
Jeff Zambrano is a Madrid-based AI film director whose work centres on cinematic world-building. His debut, Borrowed Wounds, reached the Higgsfield Global Film Festival Top 50, selected from 6,700 films.
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The films I’m preparing
My work continues through co-directing Zero Gravity and planning Borrowed Wounds as a feature, already calculated shot by shot.
Zero Gravity
Science-fiction becomes satire in Zero Gravity, which I’m co-directing with Tales And I, the story’s author. The film is in production for the AKOOL AI Film Challenge, due in November 2026.
Borrowed Wounds as a feature
The world, the tournament and the law of the Life Bond carry the dramatic scope for a 90-minute film. I have already costed that expansion of the story shot by shot.
Commission a film
Every collaboration begins with the story it needs to tell. Bring me your film, series, trailer or brand film, a platform partnership, or a festival, press or distribution proposal.