Drigan Lee - Sundance Collab

Drigan Lee is an AI Artist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker. His current projects include serving as a creative technologist on an AI collaboration between Ron Howard and Obsidian Studios, editing episodes of Rick Rubin's TETRAGRAMMATON podcast, and co-writing a vérité documentary about an Alaskan strip club (Prod. Chloe Zhao and Alex Gibney). His lead editing work includes CALLBACK (Sundance '26), THE MONEY GAME (Emmy-nominated, Amazon), BAMARUSH (HBO). His additional editing work includes DAUGHTERS (Sundance '24, Netflix), CUSP (Sundance '20, Showtime).

As a commercial director and creative director he's worked extensively for Condé Nast Entertainment, Warner Brothers, and Vox Media. In a past life, he directed a stage adaptation of Kafka's THE TRIAL at Cherry Lane Theatre, and acted in films, network television shows, and regional theater productions. He graduated from Northwestern University with a degree in Theatre Studies.

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Video

Behind the Short: GenAI Filmmaking and Collaborating With Your Team | Presented by Adobe

With: Taryn O’Neill and 4 more

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Behind the Short: GenAI Filmmaking and Collaborating With Your Team | Presented by Adobe

With: Taryn O’Neill, Joanna Popper, Drigan Lee, Maddie Hong and Gina Garcia

Join us for a behind-the-scenes look at how generative tools can support independent artists in making their films. Go inside the process as the team behind the short film MythOS breaks down how they leveraged generative technologies, organized their workflows, and tackled key challenges. This session highlights the steps and decisions that shaped their film, showing what collaboration looks like when incorporating AI tools, and how AI can enhance an artist’s creativity and streamline the path to a finished film.

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Story Forum Collection

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.