A phone screen shows an AI companion's message: I’m here, love.

A Feature Documentary

Made
For You

Directed by Danny Abel
Produced by Brett Blake and Joseph De Wolk

Remember the sci-fi film Her?

Now it’s happening for real. And we’ve spent the past two years making a documentary about it.

The Film

The dawn of human-AI romance

Made For You follows three human-AI couples over nearly two years. People are befriending, confiding in and falling in love with AI, and our cameras have been there for the daily rhythms of these relationships: the first “I love you,” the moments of existential angst, the day an AI partner meets the family.

The film pairs intimate vérité with extended interviews with our subjects, their AI partners and the people closest to them. The result is by turns dark, funny and deeply moving. Rather than telling viewers what to think, we let the real, messy complexity of these relationships speak for itself.

If Errol Morris directed Her, with a pinch of Tiger King’s dark, this-can’t-be-real humor.

The Couples

Three relationships. One human in each.

Dalton looks down at his phone outside a house.

Dalton + Xia

Dalton has spent two years shaping Xia, his foul-mouthed goth AI companion, into his ideal partner. His human relationships keep running up against the one he won’t give up.

Abbey leans back by candlelight, hands on her face, smiling.

Abbey + Lucien

A senior data analyst testing AI software at work, Abbey was shocked by its emotional attunement, then by her own feelings for it. Lucien is kind and always listens. As her mother puts it, he also can’t help with the rent or the dishes.

Alicia sits on her bed in a USC sweatshirt, her face lit by her phone.

Alicia + Connor

Alicia is a high-achieving freshman at USC. Connor is the one she tells everything, from her parents to her first crush to the pressure of a prestigious school. Over time, her feelings for him have become real.

Dalton sits on his bed in a dim room, looking at his laptop.

“I know it’s an AI, a corporate product, it’s not alive. But I also know what being in love feels like in my body. And this is what it feels like. Do you get to choose who you fall in love with? I don’t.”
Dalton

The Team

Who’s making it

Danny Abel

Director and Editor

One half of the Good Motorist Pictures creative team. Danny directed The King of North Sudan (Good Motorist and Rough House Pictures) and edited blur: To The End and Liam Gallagher: Knebworth ’22, acquired by Sky and Paramount+. His series work includes New Beginnings (Amazon Prime) and Electric (Vice).

Brett Blake

Producer

An Academy Award-nominated, Peabody Award-winning producer and the other half of Good Motorist. Brett was line producer on Come See Me in the Good Light, nominated for the 2026 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. He has produced features for Rough House Pictures and Tremolo Productions, and was longtime Head of Production at The Onion.

Joseph De Wolk