About Seeing and Believing: On the Use and Effects of Generative AI in Documentary Film
Truth plays a crucial role in documentary filmmaking. Given the rapid development of artificial intelligence and its applications, we should all ask ourselves how we want to produce and receive films in the coming years. What opportunities and challenges will shape the way filmmakers will work in the future? What moral and ethical criteria should we place on ourselves? The possibilities and limits of free AI tools are discussed in this session using concrete case studies.
SPEAKERS
EREC BREHMER
Film Director, Kolf Agency / DE
MODERATED BY
DONATA VON PERFALL
Managing Director, Documentary Campus / DE
TIME
Sunday, August 18th, 2024
11:00 – 12:00 (CET)
LOCATION
Swissotel Sarajevo / CineLink Talks Conference Room
Erec Brehmer
Born in 1987. Living in Munich, Germany. Vocational training as an editor at the Second German Television (ZDF). Studied directing at the University of Television and Film Munich (HFF) afterwards. Graduated with diploma in 2018.
Erecs films have been screened and awarded nationally and internationally at renowned festivals such as the Max Ophüls Preis Film Festival, HotDocs, DOK.fest Munich and CamerImage.
Erec is a graduate of the 31st Drehbuchwerkstatt München 2019/2020, as well as the talent development programs "ZFF Academy" (Zurich Film Festival 2020) and "Berlinale Talents" (Berlinale 2021). He is a scholarship holder of the "Munich Film Up!" mentoring & residential Lab 2021/2022, as well as the "Young Art and New Ways" scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria 2022. In 2022 he also won the Starter Film Award of the City of Munich.
Since 2023, he has been working intensively on the use and effects of generative artificial intelligence in film production.
Donata von Perfall
Donata von Perfall is Managing Director of Documentary Campus, an international training and networking program for factual professionals. She has also initiated the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival in partnership with the Robert Bosch Foundation, which takes place annually in Halle (Saale), Germany. Her latest projects are the establishment of the SILBERSALZ Institute and the partnership on the World Congress of Science & Factual Producers (WCSFP) annual international Congress.