Beyond the Hype: A Documentary Deep Dive Into AI

Daniel Roher is a filmmaker from Canada. He is best known for the 2022 documentary, Navalny, which won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature and the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary. His latest film, Tuner, is a jazzy crime thriller he wrote and directed, starring Dustin Hoffman and Leo Woodall. His latest documentary explores the promise and the peril of the AI revolution. He is an accomplished visual artist. Ask him for a drawing. Seriously. See what happens.

Charlie Tyrell is a Canadian filmmaker whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, TIFF, Hot Docs, DOC NYC, Tribeca, and more. His autobiographical short My Dead Dad’s Porno Tapes was shortlisted for the 2019 Academy Awards and won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary.

Daniel Kwan has been writing and directing for over a decade as a part of the duo DANIELS with Daniel Scheinert. They got their start with a slew of viral music videos, commercials, and short films, before breaking into the feature film and TV space.

DANIELS have developed a reputation for combining absurdity with heartfelt personal stories including the Sundance hit Swiss Army Man. He co-directed, produced, and wrote Everything Everywhere All at Once which became A24’s best-performing film of all time and won 7 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. He’s returning to Sundance as a producer for The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist.

Hailing from London by way of New York by way of Seattle, Valere Veatch is an acclaimed independent documentary filmmaker. Veatch is a writer, director, and producer of documentaries "Me @ The Zoo" (HBO), "Love Child" (HBO). Veatch is a graduate of the New School for Social Research with a degree in Culture and Media Studies. Her award-winning work deals with the intersection of technology and society.

Diana Williams is the CEO & Co-founder of Kinetic Energy Entertainment. She is an award-winning producer with franchise IP expertise across all media including video games, film/TV, and interactive/immersive location based experiences. With a mission to support creative innovation and cultural impact, she operates at the convergence of entertainment and technology, and across legacy Hollywood and the new creator economy. Throughout her career she has partnered with both emerging and established creators to champion a wide range of voices and talent in an ever-changing industry.

Kinetic Energy Entertainment is a multi-platform venture studio specializing in transforming ideas into IP that is entertaining, culturally relevant and accessible across all media, by building value with go-to-market business models and strategy. Kinetic’s slate includes the TV series adaptation of The Gatecrashers comic, political sim videogame Political Arena, podcast series Founder Hustle, YA sci-fi adventure Space Hoppers, Guardian Rogue Rangers animated series to launch on YouTube, and a TV series in development at HBO. Kinetic is also an advisor to companies like Fermata that are utilizing cutting-edge technologies to innovate in traditional entertainment categories.

Prior to Kinetic, Diana was the Creative Development and Franchise Producer for Star Wars at Lucasfilm, overseeing film and tv (including Star Wars Rebels, Rogue One), mobile and console video games (including 2015’s Battlefront), and publishing (Marvel’s Star Wars comics and novel expansions). While at Lucasfilm she was also one of the founders of ILM Immersive (formerly ILMxLAB), the immersive entertainment and VR/AR/mixed reality lab behind award-winning experiences including Vader Immortal for Oculus/Meta, Star Wars: Secrets of the Empire for The Void, and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Academy Award© winning VR experience Carne y Arena. Diana has also worked with BET Networks as a production consultant on Let the Church Say Amen, Gun Hill Road, and The Kenya Barris Project.

An Executive Producer on the Apple+ documentary Number One on the Call Sheet, she also produced the critically acclaimed feature film Our Song, which earned her a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award in the Producer category. Other productions include documentaries Room 237, the Emmy© award-winning Sylvia Drew Ivie, Student Academy Award©-nominated Another First Step, Industrial Light & Magic: Creating the Impossible, Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis, and Dear Mom Love Cher.

Diana was formerly the Chair of the Peabody Interactive Board of Jurors for digital and immersive storytelling for the Peabody Award. She is currently on the Strategic Planning Committee of The National Academy of Sciences’ Science and Entertainment Exchange; the advisory committee for the Royal Shakespeare Company/Digital development; the advisory board for UK-based Future of Film; and on the boards of Diverso (a non-profit student-led organization, centered on the under-represented storytellers of the next generation), genre focused The Overlook Film Festival, and The Immersive Experience Institute for interactive and location based experiences and theater. Diana is a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).