Overview
- Packed sessions in Goa moved AI from niche workshops to the festival’s central conversation, with attendees seeking practical guidance on editing, VFX, script analysis and AI-led planning.
- Tricia Tuttle and Shekhar Kapur said AI will not replace cinema’s core strengths, stressing that storytelling, craftsmanship and human performance remain decisive.
- Tuttle warned that festivals must prepare for surging submissions plus more complex quality control, rights verification and originality checks as AI-made work grows.
- Kapur cautioned that AI-heavy production could shrink crews and erode on-set collaboration, and he screened a teaser of his AI-driven sci-fi experiment, Warlord.
- Filmmakers cast AI as a democratizing ‘new assistant director’ that accelerates pre-production and supports sustainability through virtual scouting and predictive scheduling, even as Tuttle flagged compensation risks from concentrated tech capital.