AI for Filmmakers
Your Tools, Your Voice, Your Rights
Four hours. You bring your laptop. We find the part of your workflow AI can actually help with, so the output sounds like you and the grind stops eating your time.
Built for filmmakers by a filmmaker. Workshop-tested.
AI tools are already showing up in pre-production, writing rooms, score composition, and post. Most filmmakers are guessing. Getting generic output that sounds like everyone else, not knowing what protects their voice, and hoping the tool will figure it out. The difference between guessing and deciding is a setup built around your expertise, your standards, and your judgment. This workshop gives you the tools to stop guessing and start deciding.
Who This Is For
You already have the expertise. This workshop teaches you how to give it to AI.
Filmmakers who want to use AI to work smarter without compromising their craft, their rights, or the jobs around them. You are not anti-AI. You want to know how to use it on your terms.
Writers & Screenwriters
You want AI to help with research, outlining, and brainstorming without replacing your voice. The WGA rules leave gaps you need to understand before you use any tool on a project.
You leave with: a system built around your voice and your standards, a clear picture of where the guild rules apply and where they do not, and documentation that protects your copyright.
Directors & Producers
You decide whether AI shows up on your production. You carry the liability. You need a system for making those calls at every stage, from pre-production through distribution.
You leave with: a decision framework you apply before AI touches any part of your project. Three questions. Works on every tool, every production.
Composers & Music Supervisors
You score films. You license music for productions. You're the person the director calls when the temp track isn't working. AI is already generating cues that sound close enough to land on a rough cut. The question is what happens to your role when "close enough" gets cheaper every month.
You leave with: a system for deciding when AI belongs in your scoring workflow and when it doesn't, documentation that proves your cues are yours, and a clear picture of where you stand on consent, compensation, and credit in your production context.
Musicians & Recording Artists
Your catalog, your voice, your arrangements. All training data now. The same frameworks that protect filmmakers' rights (consent, compensation, credit) translate directly to your work. AI can generate a track that sounds like your style. The question is whether you have a system for proving what's yours and deciding where AI belongs in your process.
You leave with: a system built around your recordings and catalog, clear rules for consent, compensation, and credit applied to your work, and documentation that proves a recording is yours.
Also for: musicians, authors, photographers, documentary filmmakers, and anyone making decisions about AI in their creative work. No technical background needed.
What You Walk Away With
Not a lecture. Not a tool list. Things you can use on your next project starting Monday.
- 1 A decision framework you use before AI touches your project. Three questions. Works on every tool, every role, every production. You practice it on your own work during the workshop.
- 2 A setup built around your voice, your standards, and your judgment. You see the difference between flat AI output and expert-led output in real time, on your own project. The output sounds like you because you told it who you are.
- 3 Documentation that protects your work. Your own Refusal Log (what you accepted, rejected, and why), a generation log template, and a festival disclosure checklist. Not theory. A system you use starting Monday.
- 4 A clear picture of where you stand. What the rules actually say for your role, where they apply, where they stop, and what you need to know before your next project.
- 5 A way to talk about AI with collaborators and producers. Clear rules for consent, compensation, and credit that you apply on set, in contracts, and in any conversation where AI decisions get made on your production.
- 6 Tools that prove your work is yours, plus 14 days of free beta access. Timestamped proof of human authorship. A system for documenting your creative process. And an AI story tool that stress-tests your script, finds plot holes, and challenges weak choices. Live demo in the workshop, plus beta access after.
What Happens in the Room
You write a flat prompt and watch what AI gives you. Then you rewrite it with your expertise structured in. Same tool. Completely different output. That moment is when it clicks: AI did not get smarter. You told it who you are. From there, you apply the Three Questions framework to your own project, see a live Writers Room Council demo where AI stress-tests a story, finds the weak points, and challenges you to make it stronger, and leave with a handout kit of templates, checklists, and reference sheets.
What Past Attendees Said
"This AI training course was genuinely one of the most valuable learning experiences. Practical, eye-opening, and immediately applicable. I was so inspired that I actually started making progress on my own project right there in class."Vitaly Perakh, Writer & Entrepreneur
"Within 30 minutes, I was writing prompts that led to engaging and fun social media posts, with options to quickly create more posts for specific audiences and purposes. This a great workshop for those who want to use AI tools to streamline work tasks for the first time or expand on what they already know!"Jane Hare, Producer (Everon Media)
"The technology is here and advancing and we should use it as another tool in our creative toolbox."Jacob Dubizhansky, Filmmaker (SD Streaming Film Festival)
Why Now
Every project you start this year is being made while the rules around AI are still forming. The filmmakers who decide how AI fits their work now, before the next contract, the next festival, the next pitch, won't be guessing when those moments arrive.
Four hours. Before your next project decides for you.
About Alex
Co-wrote "A Cut Above," which won multiple awards at the San Diego Streaming Film Festival and 48 Hour Film Project Gala. Berklee-trained composer and writer with 30+ years of performance and 2,500+ events. He spent two years figuring out how to make AI actually work for his composing and writing process. Script breakdowns that used to take two weeks now get a first pass in two days. The difference was building a setup around his voice, his standards, and his judgment instead of hoping the tool would guess right. He turned that process into decision frameworks filmmakers can actually use. 40+ primary sources. Workshop-tested.
"Alex is offering a valuable workshop to learn how to navigate using AI as a good tool, to help creatives thrive. If you or a friend is interested in learning more about how to have AI assist (not replace) you on your creative journey, Alex is a safe bet."Heather Hilton, Media Personality & Podcaster
Common Questions
I've tried AI and the output was generic. Is this different?
That is the whole point. Generic output happens when AI is guessing about who you are and what you need. In this workshop, you build a setup around your voice, your standards, and your judgment. Same tools, completely different output. You see the difference live, on your own project.
Why not just learn this from YouTube?
You can learn what buttons to press for free. What you cannot get from a tutorial is a setup built around your specific work, tested on your real project, with someone in the room who has spent two years figuring out what actually works. You leave with something configured and working, not a list of things to try later.
Do I need to understand AI to attend?
No. If you have never used an AI tool, you are in the right place. We start from zero and build from your expertise up. The only prerequisite is knowing your own craft.
What if I'm not sure I'll actually use this after?
You are not learning a philosophy. You are building one setup and one decision framework, on your real project, during the workshop. By the time you leave, you have already used it. The question is not whether you will apply it. You already did.
What if I can't make it after I pay?
Full refund up to 48 hours before the workshop. After that, your spot transfers to a future session.
What do I need to bring?
A laptop with a web browser. That is it. We will set up everything else during the session.
Reserve Your Seat
You walk in with questions about AI in your work. You walk out with the tools to answer them on every project. $175.
If you've been wondering whether this applies to your work, that's the signal it does.
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