In the programme
JOSEPH CAMPBELL IS DEAD. OR IS HE?
How Generative AI Is Changing Screenwriting
The hero's journey has held screenplays together for decades, and now a model can write a hundred versions of it in minutes. This panel asks what survives of that structure once it stops being a craft you have to learn and becomes something you get with a click. Three writers and makers working with generative AI say where the model genuinely helps the writing, where it starts producing polished emptiness, and what in a screenplay still has to be done by a person.
- Does the hero's journey survive a model that can write a hundred versions of it
- What a screenwriter still does that a prompt cannot
- Three people who write for a living and use these tools daily
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.
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.
Albert Bozesan
Filmmaker · Scriptwriter · Educator
Filmmaker, writer and educator who teaches other creators how to actually use AI: from a TEDx stage to USC's Entertainment Technology Center, the National Film School of Denmark and Curious Refuge. He co-created TARMAC, a pilot for an adult animated sitcom made by six performers and artists on a custom hybrid AI pipeline, and created SPACE VETS, a preschool series for Storybook Studios. Before any of it he co-wrote bestselling audio series for Audible.
