AI Film Club: 08/13
BC + AI Film Club Meetup #8: Mr. Pixel Wizard Is Back
Thursday, August 13 · 6:30 PM · 375 Water St, Vancouver
Kevin Friel is back in the room, and he is bringing the signal.
This month, the Pixel Wizard breaks down what has changed across the AI film industry in the last couple of months: the tools that moved, the workflows that survived, and what the new toolkit actually lets filmmakers do.
⏰ Prompt Challenge Deadline: Tonight
Submissions close Monday, August 10 at midnight Pacific. Send a 60-second-or-less MP4 to we.are@tinyghoststudios.com.
This Month's Cut
🧙 Kevin Friel: What Changed While We Were Away?
Kevin Friel returns with an opinionated field report from the moving edge of AI filmmaking: what changed, what matters, what is mostly noise, and what creators can do now that they could not do two months ago.
🏆 Hack-a-thons: How To Stand Out
Hackathons move fast. We will get practical about how to prepare, choose a problem worth solving, build a team that can ship, and present the work so the room remembers it.
📖 MML's Latest Project: Memory, Biography, Archive
Multimodal Media Lab will share how it is using AI in the biographical and archival space: not just generating new images, but finding new ways to work with real lives, source material, memory, and story.
⚡ Gossip Goblin: From Internet Weirdness To A New Film Market
We will look at what Zack London and Gossip Goblin have been building, what creator-led studios change about the market, and then screen Zack's new film, Pomegranate.
What Happens At Film Club
This is a working room for filmmakers, VFX artists, editors, writers, sound people, animators, creative technologists, students, and curious weirdos.
We screen work.
We break down workflows.
We show the messy middle.
We compare what the tools promise with what they can actually do.
Bring a film, a shot that will not behave, a strange experiment, a practical question, or just yourself. All levels are welcome.
The People Behind The Room
Kevin Friel · Filmmaker, VFX artist, AI film pioneer, and the "Punk Rock AI" guy.
Kris Krüg · Creative technologist and community instigator exploring how AI reshapes culture, creativity, and collective power.
Mayumi Rollings, Mage, Yangos, Luke Minaker, and the AI Film Crew · The humans who keep the screenings, prompts, experiments, and community moving.
About Multimodal Media Lab
Multimodal Media Lab works at the intersection of AI and cinema: film production, creative tools, education, and experiments that move storytelling toward something more spatial, interactive, and embodied.
375 Water Street, Room 645, Vancouver
Coming this October: 2nd Annual BC + AI Film Festival
About Vancouver AI
Vancouver AI is a neural network of curious humans mapping the terrain between technology and consciousness. Our monthly gatherings bring builders, researchers, artists, educators, founders, and students together to trade demos, tools, ethics, and hard questions.
No gatekeeping. No outside agenda. Just a self-organizing community that gives a damn about where this revolution goes and who gets to steer.
See you Thursday.
~ kk, Kevin, Mayumi, Mage, Yangos & the AI Film Crew
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Part solarpunk R&D lab, part community potluck. BC + AI brings curious humans together to make things, ask hard questions, and have a say in where this technology takes us.
We’re a member-driven nonprofit building public-interest infrastructure for AI in British Columbia. A commons where meetups turn into working groups, prototypes turn into shared tools, and community values turn into governance. Vancouver AI was the first room. The work keeps growing through the people who show up and give a damn.
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