What does my kid do in Director?

What it is

Director is the Kubrio app where your kid becomes a time-traveling documentary director. Right now there is one story pack — the Great Panathenaea festival in Athens, 438 BC — and your kid is the filmmaker sent back to cover it. They pick whose eyes to see the day through, then have to earn the right to film by separating real history from myth. Only the facts they verify can go into the script, and every word of that script is theirs. The AI illustrates and voices what your kid writes; it never decides what the film says.

On the sprint calendar this is the Film Director week — sprints are named for the role your kid steps into; the Studio shows the app itself (Director).

What your kid actually does, step by step

1. Pick a perspective. Your kid chooses a press badge — the point of view their documentary takes on the festival. That choice shapes what their film is about.
2. Choose a host. They pick an on-screen character who actually lived in that world to guide the story, someone who would have been there in 438 BC.
3. Play the Press Pass fact-check. One claim at a time, your kid reads a statement about ancient Athens and stamps it TRUE or FALSE. Real facts and myths are mixed together. Every stamp gets a warm reveal that explains the real story — a wrong guess is never punished, it's just the moment they learn something.
4. Unlock filming. The storyboard stays locked until your kid has confirmed at least three true facts. Research comes before filming, by design — no film gets made on guesses.
5. Write the narration. The documentary has four fixed scenes — the hook, daily life, the big event, and a reflection. Your kid writes the narration for each one in their own words (short, up to about forty words a scene). They can also splice in up to two pieces of pre-made "festival footage" per scene.
6. Pick a narrator and premiere. Your kid chooses a narrator voice to read their script, then the crew assembles the finished short film with a title and credits and screens it.

What they finish with

The artifact is a finished short documentary film — your kid's perspective, their verified facts, their words, assembled into a real movie with their name on the credits. It lands in their portfolio and shows automatically in the internal Kubrio Gallery. During a sprint, finished films can be shown at Demo Day, and your kid can choose to give one its own public page at kubrio.com/made. Every finished film earns a medal when it's published. Nothing is shared beyond Kubrio without your kid's say-so.

The AI's role

The AI is the film crew, not the writer. It illustrates each scene as a stylized still — never a photoreal image — voices your kid's script with the narrator they chose, adds short motion, and cuts the whole thing together with a title and credits. What it never does is write the story: the perspective, the fact verdicts, every line of narration, the voice, and the footage picks are all your kid's. The fact-check game is built from claims that were checked ahead of time, so the history your kid puts on screen is real. You can read more about how the AI Crew works across every Kubrio app.

What parents see

You see the finished films your kid makes, delivered through Claire, your family's coach, and collected in their portfolio. Because filming is gated behind the fact-check, a finished documentary is also proof your kid did the research — they had to verify real history before the camera rolled. For how Director fits a typical Kubrio week, see sprints vs. studio time.