Technically Creative: Digital Hollywood Panel - AI in the Creativity Pipeline

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What happens when AI moves upstream into the creative process, before the camera ever rolls?

Recorded live at Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit 2026, this episode of Technically Creative brings together filmmakers, producers, technologists and creative leaders to explore how generative AI is changing film development, screenwriting, ideation, visualization, storyboarding and plot structure.

The conversation focuses on the part of filmmaking that can be the hardest to accelerate: turning the first spark of an idea into something structured enough to make.

Orlando Wood, founder of KoobrikLabs, joins Russell Palmer, CEO & Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI and SAGA; Matt Pfeffer, Executive Producer and President of Ritual Labs; Albert Thompson, creative and digital innovation leader; Alex Gocke, VP of Sales at Largo; and moderator Annie Hanlon, Co-Founder of PLAYBOOK PLBK.

Together, they examine how AI is becoming a new kind of creative collaborator. Not simply a tool for generating finished images or video, but a system for helping filmmakers explore possibilities, interrogate ideas, develop characters, visualize scenes, build storyboards and pressure-test narrative structure.

The panel explores:

• How filmmakers and writers are actually using AI in the creative development process
• The emerging AI tools for screenwriting, story development and pre-production
• Using AI for concept visualization and storyboarding
• Where AI helps creativity and where human taste, judgment and experience still matter
• How creative companies can adopt AI without surrendering the creative process to technology
• Why the biggest opportunity may be using AI to make great creative people more ambitious, rather than simply making production cheaper

For anyone working in film, television, advertising, production, screenwriting or entertainment technology, this is a practical look at what an AI-assisted creative pipeline is starting to look like in 2026.

Technically Creative is the technology podcast for people who don’t think they’re technical, but increasingly need to understand the systems shaping creative work.

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