AI Film Club with Kevin Friel | Dec 10
BC + AI Film Club · Thursday, December 10 · 375 Water St, Vancouver · Doors 6:30 PM
Bring what you're making. Watch what everyone else is.
The last Film Club of the year, back at 375 Water St. It's the monthly room for filmmakers, VFX artists, editors, writers, and creative technologists to screen each other's work, walk through how it was made, and trade the AI tools that are actually holding up. Kevin Friel hosts. You leave with new tools to try, a few people to build with, and a clearer read on what's real versus hype this month.
What happens in the room
Short screenings of member work, with the makers walking through the how.
Live tool demos and workflow walkthroughs: scripting, generation, post, sound.
The month's focus segment, then open floor for questions and collaboration.
Show-and-tell: bring a clip, a work-in-progress, or a problem you're stuck on.
The monthly prompt challenge
Every month the club takes one prompt and everybody who wants in makes something to it. Sixty seconds or less, MP4, any tools, sent to we.are@tinyghoststudios.com by midnight on the Monday before. So far it has been a toilet paper ad, zombies, Space Opera and Neon Gods. This month's theme gets called at the previous club and goes out in the Film Club WhatsApp.
Who it's for
Filmmakers and creators of every role: directors, editors, cinematographers, VFX and sound people, writers, plus the AI-curious and students figuring out where they fit. All levels. You don't need to make AI films to belong here.
Not a lecture, not a demo-day pitch. A working room where people show real, unfinished stuff.
Details
When: Thursday, December 10, 2026. Doors 6:30 PM.
Where: Multimodal Media Lab, 375 Water St, Vancouver (Gastown).
Bring: a laptop if you want to demo; otherwise just yourself.
Community: 150+ filmmakers in the Film Club WhatsApp. Ask for an invite at the event.
Tickets
Community: CA$20
BC + AI member: Free. Membership verified before approval.
Hosts
Kevin Friel: Nura Studios filmmaker and VFX artist, 25+ years from traditional post to generative workflows. The "Punk Rock AI" guy.
Kris Krüg: creative technologist and community instigator, on how AI reshapes culture and creative power.
Magenta Rúne: director and co-founder of Tiny Ghost Studios, creator of the AI-animated series Blood and Glitter. Runs the monthly prompt challenge with Mayumi.
Mayumi Rollings: co-founder and CEO of Tiny Ghost Studios, running Film Club alongside Kevin since it started in January. Background in film and games, leads the AI animation accelerator, and collects the prompt challenge submissions.
Yangos Hadjiyiannis: Experience Director at Multimodal Media Lab, the Gastown room that hosts us every month. Two decades and 250+ immersive projects, including Alexandria: Port of Worlds for Cannes XR and Living Sanctuary for the SIGGRAPH VR Theater.
With community support from Brian Hockenstein and member volunteers.
Presented by BC + AI, British Columbia's member-supported nonprofit AI industry association. Monthly Film Club screenings since 2025.
About the Venue
Multimodal Media Lab empowers creators worldwide with AI-driven tools that transcend traditional limitations. Based in Vancouver, BC MML pushes the boundaries of AI cinema production while equipping others to do the same. At the intersection of AI and XR, MML explores the evolution from storytelling to storyliving... where narratives become spatial, interactive, and embodied experiences.
By blending cutting-edge AI video production with immersive technologies and hands-on education, MML is redefining how stories are created, experienced, and shared.
The Screens
Every Film Club screening runs on Clear LED, courtesy of Joel, who some of you know around town as George Croney. Their displays are up at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Wells Fargo Center in New Jersey, Primark in Madrid, Concord Pacific here in Vancouver, and the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. The big cube in the room next door is theirs too, and they do experimentation and prototyping with these screens at MML. Come see what the room is actually watching on.
About Vancouver AI
Vancouver AI is a neural network of curious humans mapping the terrain between technology and consciousness. We bridge art galleries and research labs, corporate towers and garage workshops because the future doesn't get built in one kind of room.
We run monthly gatherings where builders, researchers, artists, educators, founders, and students 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.
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About BC + AI
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.
Multi-modal, multi-cultural, future-facing, and radically local.
Plug into the bigger organism
Bring the half-working thing. Somebody here might know what to do with it.
Membership helps keep this whole strange, useful organism alive. Bring a stuck project to Office Hours, find collaborators through the directory, or help start the working group you wish existed. Keep making things together between meetups.
Your dues help sustain the rooms, the connections, and the knowledge we put back into public.
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Other upcoming BC + AI events
Nov 11, 2026 18:00 (America/Vancouver): FV + AI November: Fraser Valley AI Community Meetup
Nov 12, 2026 18:30 (America/Vancouver): AI Film Club with Kevin Friel | Nov 12
Nov 19, 2026 18:30 (America/Vancouver): ED + AI #15: What It Gave Back, What It Took
See the full BC + AI calendar
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