TV & FILM PRODUCTION WILL NEVER BE THE SAME

Affan Imran

CEO · Founder

Canadian entrepreneur and technologist, CEO and co-founder of Fantastic Day, an interactive innovation studio working across production, product and community with both full-AI and hybrid creative workflows. He spent more than a decade building digital agencies and creative ventures, co-founding Nuscreen in 2012 and later launching the audio platform Audiotorium. He is active in the international generative-AI filmmaking community, including the GenJam events, where crews build an entire short inside a single weekend.

Etienne Dejong

Producer · Creative Director

A television format man, in the trade since 1989. He started at Endemol, the Dutch format factory, and stayed sixteen years: the first eleven as an executive producer, then five as international consultant and creative director.

The next twelve years went to Talpa Media, in three different roles and across two continents. He came in as a content manager in Hilversum, returned there as international creative director, then spent five years running global productions, and from 2017, out of Shanghai, took charge of content, production and licensing for China. In between he was associate creative director at White Smoke Media.

From 2022 to 2024 he was head of content and productions for South-East Asia at ITV Studios in Singapore, then a media specialist at Triple, and after that global director at Metavision Global Entertainment. Since the autumn of 2025 he has been a creative partner at The C-Collective.

Martin Kunert

Director · Scriptwriter

American director and screenwriter, a New York University film school graduate who has worked for three decades with his producing partner Eric Manes. In 2004 he directed Voices of Iraq: instead of sending a crew, the production put 150 digital cameras into the hands of Iraqis during the war and let them film their own lives. MovieMaker Magazine called it a genuinely groundbreaking work, in method as much as in content; it went to cinemas across the United States and to Edinburgh, Locarno and Melbourne. He also created and executive-produced MTV's Fear, one of the first shows to hand the camera to its participants, and directed Campfire Tales for New Line Cinema. He has written and developed for Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century Fox, CBS and NBC, and was brought in by Disney and Shanghai Media Group to build film franchises for the Chinese and global market. Currently, he is directing a historical feature film where all the characters and 50% of the content are recreated with generative AI.

Adrien Bodson

Producer · Scriptwriter

Internationally recognized producer, screenwriter and AI-cinema expert, co-founder of AIStudios.ca, Canada's leading cinematic AI studio. An HEC Montréal graduate in arts management, he has produced feature films and over fifty hours of prime-time TV through Orange Médias and Cinemachine. He co-wrote and produced Innocent, the opening film of the Shanghai International Film Festival, and the hit Crise d'ado, the first Canadian theatrical feature with an AI-enhanced sequence. In 2026 he received the Cinema Innovation Award, and Into the Unknown took second at a film hackathon in Cannes.