In the programme
BY THE END OF THIS PANEL, THE SYLLABUS WILL ALREADY BE OUTDATED
How Do We Teach Filmmaking When the Tools Change Every Week?
A panel about teaching in a field that changes faster than a syllabus. Lecturers and practitioners ask what to teach at all when this semester's tool will be different next term, and what remains once you subtract the specific software: craft, thinking, the ability to judge. A conversation for teachers, but also for anyone who now has to teach themselves from scratch every few months.
Who's on stage
Justin Trevor Winters
Scriptwriter · Educator
Screenwriter, producer and development executive with nearly two decades of experience, having worked in the literary departments of Innovative Artists and Creative Artists Agency. He is a screenwriting lecturer at Loyola Marymount University's School of Film and Television, where he also serves as Director of The Innovators Film Festival and chair of the LMU AI Alliance. He is co-founder and CEO of Verified Labs, an AI transformation company whose clients include the estates of Ernest Hemingway and Steve McQueen, and his screenwriting credits include the feature Killing Winston Jones.
Laura Tornga
Producer · Educator
Los Angeles writer, director and AI filmmaker who now works across hybrid and AI-native production after a decade as a photographer and cinematographer. Her AI-generated Hunger Strikes placed in the top eleven in both the music video and university categories at the Chroma Awards. Co-founder of Media Misfits, founder of Elise Paige Productions, an event producer for Machine Cinema, and an ambassador for Runway, Dreamina, CapCut and Pika. She launched and programmed the inaugural Innovators Film Festival at Loyola Marymount University, a two-day GenAI event for 700 attendees.
Minh Do
CEO · Producer
Entrepreneur, filmmaker and educator working at the intersection of AI, storytelling and culture. He is co-founder and Head of AI at the hybrid studio Fantastic Day and co-founder of Machine Cinema, the generative-AI filmmaking community where he runs the GenJam workshops. He was on the founding team of Vietcetera, a leading Vietnamese digital media platform that grew past twenty million monthly users, and earlier served as an executive director at Vertex Venture Holdings and editor-in-chief of Tech in Asia, interviewing leaders across the technology world.
