Future Film: Inside the Story-First AI Pipeline with Mike Levine

​This Tuesday, Future Film welcomes one of our own!

​We're really excited to have Mike Levine, founder and CEO of FilmSpark.ai, joining us for a live demo and Q&A.

​Mike has spent his entire career at the bleeding edge of filmmaking technology. He led the visual effects group at LucasArts and served on the Technology Council at Skywalker Ranch, inside the company that defined what happens when technology and storytelling come together. He later built visual effects software with an ILM effects supervisor. Now he's bringing all of that to generative filmmaking.

​FilmSpark is a full production suite. You develop the story, cast your characters, storyboard every scene, generate the shots, and cut the film, all in one place. Cast an actor once and they stay consistent, every shot, every scene, every project. More than 30 models run inside a single workflow, so there's no jumping between tools.

​There's a full editor and timeline built in, with export paths to Premiere and Avid. And an AI agent reads your whole film, plans multi-step work, and proposes every change for your approval, so you stay in the director's chair.

​Mike will take us inside the platform and show us how it works, live. He's also screening work he made with it, and taking us through the thinking behind it.

​It's a huge privilege to have Mike as part of Future Film, and to have him bringing this directly to us. An open, direct dialogue between working artists and the people actually building the technology is rare. Tomorrow night is a chance to see where the software is today and to shape where it goes next.

​For professional editors and filmmakers creating with generative AI, this is a close look at the workflows starting to define this work, and what they mean for the projects we take on next.

​Clear your Tuesday. You're going to want to see this one.