Machine Cinema GenTalks w/ Hardeep Gambhir, Chandan Perla & Oscar Sharp
Hey everyone,
This Wednesday 10-1115am PT / 1-215pm ET is our weekly digital get together to connect on how we are all making our way through this new era for creative industries and AI among other emergent technologies, sharing ideas, tips, knowledge amongst ourselves.
Our group is an amazing mix of creators/ producers/ builders/ some new to this stuff/ some OG/ all of us constantly learning.
This week we'll be joined by:
Oscar Sharp
https://thereforefilms.weebly.com/
Oscar is a BAFTA-nominated filmmaker and Screen International Star of Tomorrow. His work has received many awards internationally, from the likes of Joss Whedon, Guillermo del Toro and Sir Alan Parker.
In 2016 he collaborated with technologist Ross Goodwin to make Sunspring, starring Thomas Middleditch, the world's first film written entirely by an Artificial Intelligence. The A.I. then named itself Benjamin during a live interview. The film provoked an enormous press response, and was exhibited at many major venues and galleries worldwide. Sharp & Goodwin followed this in 2017 with It's No Game, in which David Hasselhoff plays a version of himself generated by Benjamin. The film depicts a Writer's Guild of America strike in the face of artificial intelligence, six years ahead of such events unfolding for real. Then 2018's Zone Out they attempted to have Benjamin write, direct, perform, score and edit a short film, and the original Sunspring cast agreed to be 'uploaded' in order to be deepfaked. Then in 2019 they created Bobo & Girlfriend for Robert Downey Jr's Age of AI documentary. This final short film remains unreleased.
Currently he is developing his magical-realist medical procedural The Human Conditions for HBO Max with Damon Lindelof & Matt Reeves, and feature film Perishables with Votiv & LuckyChap.
Hardeep Gambhir and Chandan Perla
Co-Organizers of the Mumbai AI Film Festival
https://www.mumbaifilmfestival.ai/
https://www.hardeep.space/about
Hardeep is Co-Founder of LocalHost; a venture-capital fund and events company. Previously, he was on the Founding Team of a startup backed by Sam Altman.
Chandan previously founded PodcastCircle.co, one of India’s leading podcast production companies. Before that, he was also the founding team at Bluelearn, which raised 4 million dollars while still in college.
Together they will tell us about their historic moment launching the Mumbai event last month.