FounderMark Bowen
Based inDallas, TX
Started2024
RootsSouthWest Films, 1995–2020
Sunstone AI started behind a camera.
Founder Mark Bowen spent 25 years, from 1995 to 2020, making [commercials, documentaries and branded films] with SouthWest Films. Lighting a set, finding the frame, cutting a story down to the moment that lands. When AI tools began producing real images, he didn't see a shortcut. He saw a new kind of camera.
So he built a studio around it. At Sunstone AI, filmmakers direct the machines: every shot is planned, every frame is checked by people, and every project is finished to the standard a client would expect from a crew. The same instincts now shape the websites and games we build, because a good site and a good game are stories too.
The name comes from the sunstone, the ancient calendar stone people used to read the light and measure their days. Ours measures something new: what technology can do when someone with an eye for story is holding it.
Find your light.