AI & Filmmaking: A Cinema St. Louis Town Hall

With every festival, Cinema St. Louis receives more and more films from around the world produced with some percentage of Generative AI. The conversation amongst the film community has become increasingly polarized and passionate. Regularly we receive emails from filmmakers who hate everything about AI and others who believe they should be able to use it in their work.

We aren’t interested in taking sides. We are interested in providing a space for honest, thoughtful conversation.

Cinema St. Louis needs to develop an AI policy, but we don’t want to do it without the input of our filmmaking community.

This conversation will help us develop a thoughtful AI policy for our festivals and programs, one that’s shaped by the community we serve rather than decided behind closed doors.

Before the discussion we wil be screening the film ANOMALY from filmmaker Jack Snyder who take part in a panel discussion along with Cinema St. Louis staff, Paul Hibbard from Hysteria Fest, and a representative from SAG-AFTRA.