The inaugural South by Southwest London 2025 saw Shoreditch taken over by the US-founded creative festival brand, serving up a blend of business, tech and culture to an international audience, with delegates attending from 56 countries.
Film and TV professionals, studio executives and kit manufacturers are urged to open up to the creator economy or face ruin.
“We’re not writing to the headlines, but you see this sort of conflict and empire building happen over and over again in history”, says John Gilroy, lead editor and executive producer of Star Wars spy thriller Andor.
The IBC Accelerator project envisions AI-driven production assistants that seamlessly integrate into control room workflows, enhancing live production with intelligent automation.
Google’s generative filmmaking tool Veo 3 sparks Hollywood exploration but creative ownership remains in flux.
While questions remain over genAI’s impact on the creative sector, few can argue against the automation of mundane tasks bringing order to unprecedented volumes of footage.
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When individuals can build multi-million pound business empires from chatting to people online, it is high time to call it what it is or get left in the dust, says FlightStory’s Georgie Holt.
The project aims to develop and explore a framework for leveraging generative AI to create media content such as scripts, animations, and adverts, streamlining workflows and enhancing audience engagement.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies have come into sharp focus in recent months, although often for the wrong reasons. Indeed, in some areas there has been a bonfire of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agendas amid US political pressure to scrap such policies, and environmental targets have also come under scrutiny.
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With parts of the EU AI Act coming into force earlier this year, it’s a timely moment to assess the legal outlook for AI and the media. But is there a danger that, in some regards, it could already be a case of too little, too late?
