Alicia Van Couvering
Alicia Van Couvering is an independent producer whose credits include FX’s Adults, Lena Dunham's Tiny Furniture, Jon Watts' Cop Car, Joe Swanberg's Drinking Buddies, Gimlet Media's inaugural scripted podcast, Homecoming, and its television adaptation, as well as numerous short films and commercials.
Formerly an executive with Nick Kroll's Good at Business, Lord Miller Productions, Epic Magazine, and Annapurna Pictures, she is also a contributing editor to Filmmaker Magazine, a nominee for the Independent Spirit Award for Producer of the Year and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Courses and Content
Story Forum: Exploring Art and Innovation - ON DEMAND
Together with creators, educators, industry leaders, and technologists, we explored the creative technologies that are impacting storytelling and how today’s artists are evolving.
Now you can experience it all on-demand for free.
Video
Storycraft in the Age of AI: Narratology, Structure and the Human Voice
With: Joseph Couch and 2 more
Storycraft in the Age of AI: Narratology, Structure and the Human Voice
With: Joseph Couch, Mike S. Ryan and Alicia Van Couvering
AI is entering storytelling, but the real question is not whether machines can generate scenes. It’s whether we can use AI to help humans build better stories: more coherent, more original, and more emotionally honest. This panel explores how narratology (the study of story structure, meaning, and form) can guide human-centered AI tools toward new plot structures for the modern age, beyond inherited templates like the Hero’s Journey. This session will examine how creators can keep the moving parts of a story legible, stress-test decisions, and discover new shapes without flattening the original voice.