'The Machine' directed by Caradog Jones is a new sci-fi thriller based around the complicated science behind artificial intelligence.

SOUNDBITE director Caradog Jones, saying (English):

"I was reading books on futurism. I was reading books on how AI was being developed. And the more I read the more I thought that actually it was time to do a movie that tackled these subjects in as realistic a way as I could."

Caradog's breakthrough with his vision of A.I. was a chance meeting between his producer and a scientist from the UK's Ministry of Defense

SOUNDBITE director Caradog Jones, saying (English):

"He explained that they've mapped a slug brain and they've mapped a mouse brain and used that model to make their robots work and how the synapses connect and the information is relayed - all of this is being fed into robots they're actually building at the moment."

The film, with a budget of only one million pounds, follows two scientists as they create the