SFF TALKS: AI in FILM - Leaps and Bounds

Artificial Intelligence is spreading through all aspects of our lives. Will AI destroy or save filmmaking? A FREE panel on the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of cinema.

Speakers include Rick Dakan — Head of Ringling College AI task force, filmmaker Steve Stein, Associate Professor John Licato of USF's Bellini College of Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity and Computing -- the first of its kind in Florida and one of the pioneers in the nation to bring together the disciplines of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and computing into a dedicated college. 

This event will be moderated by Addie Morfoot --

Addie Morfoot has been covering the entertainment industry for the last 17 years. Her work has appeared in Variety, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Crain’s New York Business, Documentary Magazine and Adweek. Her personal essays have been published in The New York Times, Marie Claire, Salon, Cosmopolitan.com, Brain, Child, The LA Times and The New York Press. Originally from Connecticut, Addie began her writing career at Variety’s headquarters in Los Angeles before transferring to their Manhattan bureau in 2005. She has an undergraduate degree from University of Wisconsin-Madison and earned an MFA in Creative Writing - Nonfiction from The New School in 2012. In 2019, a short film that Addie co-wrote called BOY BOY GIRL GIRL was released on PBS. Starring Katie Holmes, BOY BOY GIRL GIRL is a dark comedy about a gay couple trying to adopt a newborn from a drug-addict and her abusive girlfriend.