In the programme
Showcase & premiere, powered by James Drake Media
A showcase and premiere of work made in a studio built entirely on AI, with storytelling at its centre. After the screening the people who made it stay on stage, so you can ask directly about what the screen does not show: how long the production took, where they had to turn back, what went differently from the plan, and which stages no longer resemble classical film production at all.
- PREMIERE: Between the Lines, dir. Oscar Burgos (11 min)
- PREMIERE: Freedom, dir. Marcin Rossa (10 min)
- Two different approaches, side by side: a conversation with Oscar Burgos, Marcin Rossa and Mariusz Połeć, moderated by Irmina Richardson
- Q&A: questions from the room to the directors and the studio
- JAMES DRAKE MEDIA SHOWCASE: Thomas R. Carrington, James Drake, Henry Sandford
Who's on stage
Oscar Burgos
VFX Supervisor · Director
Character and creature animator with around sixteen years of experience, credited across major studio blockbusters. He worked in the animation department on Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War and The Suicide Squad, contributed to Tom and Jerry and Dolittle, and served as a lead animation artist at MPC on Disney's Mufasa: The Lion King. His recent work includes visual effects for Predator: Badlands at Framestore. His craft centres on bringing digital characters and creatures to life for photoreal feature films.
Mariusz Polec
CEO · Founder · Poland
CEO and founder of casting.studio, a next-generation app for the creative industry that pairs agents' work with AI and gathers a community of over twenty thousand actors, influencers and content creators. For years he has been joining casting with technology: building tools for data-driven casting, likeness licensing and generative acting techniques, from live action to motion control, opening a new way for creators and brands to work with talent. He has run castings for global brands such as Netflix, Disney, HBO, Mercedes, McDonald's, Apple and BMW.
Thomas R. Carrington
Director · Founder
Director and co-founder of James Drake Media, a UK video production studio combining AI-driven workflows with traditional filming and post-production. An art director, AI specialist and content creator, he began his career in broadcast design, working with Sky, the BBC and ITV between 2004 and 2018, where he developed a belief that design is the most powerful form of communication. Today he leads his team in producing content for broadcast, corporate, events and advertising. He studied at the Istituto Europeo di Design.
James Drake
Philanthropist · Founder
British entrepreneur and philanthropist, founder and chairman of the scientific publisher Future Science Group before its sale, co-founder of James Drake Media, and founder and chairman of The Drake Foundation, whose multi-million-pound research programme changed how professional sport understands head injuries. Through the Drake Calleja Trust he backs exceptional musicians at the start of world-class careers, and through Of Lost Time publishes collections of the best letters left behind by iconic figures, from writers to scientists.