Kane Parsons (born June 18, 2005), known online as Kane Pixels, is an American filmmaker, VFX artist, composer and YouTuber from Northern California. At 16 he began building his found-footage horror web series Backrooms on YouTube, using the free 3D tool Blender on a laptop - and the first episode went viral almost overnight. His A24 feature debut Backrooms (2026), starring Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve, made him the youngest director in cinema history to open at number one at both the domestic and global box offices.
Parsons publicly criticized generative AI in filmmaking, saying it 'defeats the purpose' of creative work, while hinting he wants to explore AI themes artistically in future projects.
Deadline reported Parsons was seeking a screenwriter for a Backrooms sequel, but Parsons denied this on The Town with Matt Belloni podcast, calling the report 'more like a hallucination'.
Parsons confirmed the Backrooms YouTube web series will continue and expressed interest in developing a Backrooms television series.
Backrooms (2026) opened in US theaters on May 29, earning $81.5 million in its opening weekend and becoming A24's biggest opening weekend ever on a reported $10 million budget.
Backrooms premiered at the Aero Theatre in Los Angeles on May 7, 2026, ahead of its wide US release.
