--- description: Find out how Cristóbal Valenzuela is shaping the future and defining the next generation of leadership. title: Cristóbal Valenzuela Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ddaf60da0ad9583/6998ca2b7323af41412bce1b/t100-next-2025-cristobal-Valenzuela-2.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Sep 30, 2025 # Cristóbal Valenzuela by Jane Rosenthal  Matt Winkelmeyer—Getty Images/Vox Media Entertainment has always transformed alongside technology. From silent films to talkies, black-and-white reels to bursts of Technicolor, groundbreaking cameras to wide-screen formats, each leap forward has reshaped how stories are told. At Runway, CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela is inspiring the industry to evolve even further. Built by artists for artists, Runway is an AI company with storytelling at its core. By designing AI systems tailored to audiovisual content, Cristóbal is lowering the barrier of entry—building a new creative class with access to powerful tools, especially with the launch of the Hundred Film Fund, which awards grants to filmmakers using Runway’s technology. Having been in the business for 40 years, I love what Cristóbal is doing. He’s creating a new kind of accessible art form, and it is exciting to watch. _Rosenthal is an Oscar-nominated producer, the co-founder and CEO of Tribeca Enterprises, and a member of the Hundred Film Fund’s advisory panel_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318877/cristobal-valenzuela/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318877/cristobal-valenzuela/"},"headline":"Cristóbal Valenzuela","datePublished":"2025-09-30T10:48:00.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T02:30:10.798Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318877/cristobal-valenzuela/","keywords":["TIME100 Next","sponsorshipblock"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ddaf60da0ad9583/6998ca2b7323af41412bce1b/t100-next-2025-cristobal-Valenzuela-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7ddaf60da0ad9583/6998ca2b7323af41412bce1b/t100-next-2025-cristobal-Valenzuela-2.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/world/","name":"World"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time100-next/","name":"TIME100 Next"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/time100-next-2025/7318877/cristobal-valenzuela/","name":"Cristóbal Valenzuela"}}]}] ```