feat: New agent demo - short movie agents

.github/CODEOWNERS

@@ -49,3 +49,6 @@
 
 # Time Series Forecasting
 /java/agents/time-series-forecasting/ @kweinmeister
+
+# Short movie agents
+/python/agents/short-movie-agents @rsamborski

README.md

@@ -43,9 +43,10 @@ To learn more, check out the [ADK Documentation](https://google.github.io/adk-do
 │   │   ├── RAG
 │   │   ├── realtime-conversational-agent
 │   │   ├── safety-plugins
-│   │   ├── README.md
+│   │   ├── short-movie-agents
 │   │   ├── software-bug-assistant  
-│   │   └── travel-concierge
+│   │   ├── travel-concierge
+│   │   └── README.md
 │   └── README.md
 └── README.md
 ```

python/agents/README.md

@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Check out the agent samples below, organized by category:
 | [Personalized Shopping](personalized-shopping) | Product Recommendations                                                                                                               | E-commerce, Personalized agent, Shopping assistant, Single-agent, Product recommendation, Product discovery, Chatbot    | Conversational         | Easy        | Single Agent     | E-commerce                    |
 | [Vertex AI Retrieval Agent](RAG) | RAG Powered Agent / Answering questions related to documents uploaded to Vertex AI RAG Engine, providing informative responses with citations to source materials.                              |  RAG engine   | Workflow              | Intermediate        | Single Agent       | Horizontal                    |
 | [Safety Guardrail Plugins](safety-plugins) | Safety filter plugins: Gemini as a judge, Model Armor as a filter                              |  Plugin, Security, Guardrail, Jailbreak, Multiagent   | Conversational/Workflow              | Intermediate        | Plugin       | Safety &Security                    |
+| [Short Movie Agents](short-movie-agents) | Constructs end to end videos based on the user's intent. |   Multi-agent, Custom tool | Workflow | Intermediate | Multi Agent | Media           
 | [Software Bug Assistant](software-bug-assistant)         | Assists in software bug resolution by querying internal ticketing systems and external knowledge sources (GitHub, StackOverflow, Google Search) to find similar issues and diagnostics. | RAG, MCP, Bug Tracking, Google Search, IT Support, Database Integration, API  | Workflow/Conversational | Intermediate | Single Agent | Horizontal / IT Support            |
 | [Travel Concierge](travel-concierge) | Travel Concierge, Digital Tasks Assistant                                                                                               |   Function tool (Python), Custom tool, Agent tool, Input and output schema, Updatable context, Dynamic instructions  | Conversational | Advanced | Multi Agent | Travel                        |
 | [Auto Insurance Agent](auto-insurance-agent) | Auto Insurance Agent to manage members, claims, rewards and roadside assistance.                                                                                              |   [Apigee](https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/api-platform/get-started/what-apigee), [Apigee API hub](https://cloud.google.com/apigee/docs/apihub/what-is-api-hub), Agent Tool  | Conversational | Easy | Multi Agent | Financial Services       

python/agents/short-movie-agents/.env-template

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+# # AI Studio
+# GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=FALSE
+# GOOGLE_API_KEY=PASTE_YOUR_ACTUAL_API_KEY_HERE
+
+# # VertexAI
+# GOOGLE_GENAI_USE_VERTEXAI=TRUE
+# GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT=YOUR_PROJECT_ID
+# GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION=LOCATION

python/agents/short-movie-agents/.gitignore

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+# Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
+__pycache__/
+*.py[cod]
+*$py.class
+
+# C extensions
+*.so
+
+# Distribution / packaging
+.Python
+build/
+develop-eggs/
+dist/
+downloads/
+eggs/
+.eggs/
+lib/
+lib64/
+parts/
+sdist/
+var/
+wheels/
+share/python-wheels/
+*.egg-info/
+.installed.cfg
+*.egg
+MANIFEST
+
+# PyInstaller
+#  Usually these files are written by a python script from a template
+#  before PyInstaller builds the exe, so as to inject date/other infos into it.
+*.manifest
+*.spec
+
+# Installer logs
+pip-log.txt
+pip-delete-this-directory.txt
+
+# Unit test / coverage reports
+htmlcov/
+.tox/
+.nox/
+.coverage
+.coverage.*
+.cache
+nosetests.xml
+coverage.xml
+*.cover
+*.py,cover
+.hypothesis/
+.pytest_cache/
+cover/
+
+# Translations
+*.mo
+*.pot
+
+# Django stuff:
+*.log
+local_settings.py
+db.sqlite3
+db.sqlite3-journal
+
+# Flask stuff:
+instance/
+.webassets-cache
+
+# Scrapy stuff:
+.scrapy
+
+# Sphinx documentation
+docs/_build/
+
+# PyBuilder
+.pybuilder/
+target/
+
+# Jupyter Notebook
+.ipynb_checkpoints
+
+# IPython
+profile_default/
+ipython_config.py
+
+# pyenv
+#   For a library or package, you might want to ignore these files since the code is
+#   intended to run in multiple environments; otherwise, check them in:
+# .python-version
+
+# pipenv
+#   According to pypa/pipenv#598, it is recommended to include Pipfile.lock in version control.
+#   However, in case of collaboration, if having platform-specific dependencies or dependencies
+#   having no cross-platform support, pipenv may install dependencies that don't work, or not
+#   install all needed dependencies.
+#Pipfile.lock
+
+# UV
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include uv.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#uv.lock
+
+# poetry
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include poetry.lock in version control.
+#   This is especially recommended for binary packages to ensure reproducibility, and is more
+#   commonly ignored for libraries.
+#   https://python-poetry.org/docs/basic-usage/#commit-your-poetrylock-file-to-version-control
+#poetry.lock
+
+# pdm
+#   Similar to Pipfile.lock, it is generally recommended to include pdm.lock in version control.
+#pdm.lock
+#   pdm stores project-wide configurations in .pdm.toml, but it is recommended to not include it
+#   in version control.
+#   https://pdm.fming.dev/latest/usage/project/#working-with-version-control
+.pdm.toml
+.pdm-python
+.pdm-build/
+
+# PEP 582; used by e.g. github.com/David-OConnor/pyflow and github.com/pdm-project/pdm
+__pypackages__/
+
+# Celery stuff
+celerybeat-schedule
+celerybeat.pid
+
+# SageMath parsed files
+*.sage.py
+
+# Environments
+.env
+.env.local
+.venv
+env/
+venv/
+ENV/
+env.bak/
+venv.bak/
+
+# Spyder project settings
+.spyderproject
+.spyproject
+
+# Rope project settings
+.ropeproject
+
+# mkdocs documentation
+/site
+
+# mypy
+.mypy_cache/
+.dmypy.json
+dmypy.json
+
+# Pyre type checker
+.pyre/
+
+# pytype static type analyzer
+.pytype/
+
+# Cython debug symbols
+cython_debug/
+
+# PyCharm
+#  JetBrains specific template is maintained in a separate JetBrains.gitignore that can
+#  be found at https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/main/Global/JetBrains.gitignore
+#  and can be added to the global gitignore or merged into this file.  For a more nuclear
+#  option (not recommended) you can uncomment the following to ignore the entire idea folder.
+#.idea/
+
+# VS Code
+.vscode/
+
+# Ruff stuff:
+.ruff_cache/
+
+# PyPI configuration file
+.pypirc

python/agents/short-movie-agents/Changelog.md

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+# Changelog
+
+## v0.3.1 - Refactor deployment and model updates
+
+- Upgraded image generation model to `imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001`.
+- Set the location for video generation model to `us-central1`.
+- Added `GOOGLE_CLOUD_PROJECT` and `GOOGLE_CLOUD_LOCATION` to the backend deployment in `Makefile`.
+- Removed Terraform-based deployment, updated `README.md` and `Makefile` to reflect this change.
+
+## v0.3.0 - Code updates based on agent-starter-pack 0.15.4
+
+- Updated the codebase to align with the changes in `agent-starter-pack` version 0.15.4.
+
+## v0.2.0 - Moved to a director workflow architecture
+
+- Refactored the agent workflow from a sequential process to a director-based architecture for improved orchestration and flexibility.
+
+## v0.1.0 - Initial version
+
+- Initial release of the short movie generation agents.
+- Implemented a sequential workflow for story generation, screenplay creation, storyboarding, and video production.

python/agents/short-movie-agents/Dockerfile

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+# Copyright 2025 Google LLC
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+FROM python:3.11-slim
+
+RUN pip install --no-cache-dir uv==0.6.12
+
+WORKDIR /code
+
+COPY ./pyproject.toml ./README.md ./uv.lock* ./
+
+COPY ./app ./app
+
+RUN uv sync --frozen
+
+ARG COMMIT_SHA=""
+ENV COMMIT_SHA=${COMMIT_SHA}
+
+EXPOSE 8080
+
+CMD ["uv", "run", "uvicorn", "app.server:app", "--host", "0.0.0.0", "--port", "8080"]