Generative Series: Ai and Film
Hollywood is in the middle of a reckoning. From the Golden Globes to the Oscars, from strike lines to sound stages, one question is quietly — and sometimes loudly — reshaping the future of film: what happens to cinema when machines can create images, voices, and entire worlds on demand?
On March 8th, Generative Series: AI, Art & Culture returns to the LINE Hotel for our most provocative conversation yet: AI and Film. We're bringing together filmmakers, Adobe's GenAI leadership, top entertainment lawyers, and creative pioneers to tackle the messiest, most urgent questions facing the industry. Keep your eye balls peeled for a cutting-edge for a punchy, powerful Ai and Film demo.
We’ll explore the new cinematic grammar emerging right now: how generative tools are reshaping the director’s chair, altering performance itself, and collapsing the distance between imagination and execution. When anyone can generate photorealistic scenes, what happens to craft — and who gets to call themselves a filmmaker?
We’ll also dig into the legal and ethical frontier: copyright, IP, SAG-AFTRA protections, digital twins, and the uneasy question of ownership in an age where likeness can be cloned and voices can live forever. These aren’t abstract dilemmas — they’re already shaping contracts, careers, and courtrooms.
And finally, the human question. Can AI-generated cinema move us the way great films always have? Or is there something irreducibly messy — emotional, irrational, human — that machines can’t replicate, no matter how perfect the pixels?
Our lively program will feature:
—Hannah Elsakr, Adobe VP, GenAI New Business Ventures
—Ryder Haske, Partner & Creative Director, People’s Television
—Kevin Bankston, Senior Advisor on AI Governance at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT); Adjunct Professor at Georgetown Law School teaching AI and copyright
—Sarah Alberstein, ArentFox Schiff attorney focused on copyright and intellectual property (IP) issues, where she advises fashion, arts & entertainment, tech, and retail
—Kimberly Arias, Video Lead at the Pew Research Center, blending journalism and research with storytelling
Free with RSVP. AI and Film Demo. Panel, Q&A, cocktails.
See you there.