
Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
Monday, July 21st, 2025
9 – 9:50 PM Eastern Time Zone
Session I: A Virtual Event
AI & Cinematic Creativity: On the Verge of Its Citizen Kane Moment
Perhaps one way to gauge the proliferation of AI Cinema is by making note of the AI Film Festivals and Meet-ups around the world. Let’s start with Seattle and LA, Mumbai and Berlin, Austin and Shanghai, West Palm Beach and Vienna, New York and Cannes, UK and Prague, Chicago and Atlanta. Not to mention Dubai. AI is the fastest emerging technology of all time and the quality and excitement around the tools and unleashed creative energy speaks for itself. In this roundtable we will be screening from among the best. We will we speak to film makers and voices of AI creativity. Are we on the verge of our “Citizen Kane Moment?” No question Cinematic AI will be largest and most explosive entertainment category ever.
Speakers:
Edward Saatchi, CEO, Fable Studios
Jason Zada, founder, Secret Level
Nikola Todorovic, Co-Founder, Wonder Dynamics, Autodesk
Amit Jain, CEO & founder, Luma
Christina Storm Lee,
Co-Founder PLAYBOOK PLBK & Governor, Television Academy Emerging Media Peer Group, Moderator
Amit Jain is the CEO and Co-Founder of Luma AI, a startup pursuing visual intelligence through multi-modal foundation models. Luma is working on natively combining the next generation of AI with delightful products, and most recently released Dream Machine, a market-leading Video Generation model that garnered 1MM users in 4 days. Amit founded Luma from Apple, where he worked as a Systems and Machine Learning Engineer, leading work on the Passthrough feature for the Apple Vision Pro and before that on the integration of the first LIDAR sensors for the iPhone.
Amit also has experience in multiple startups, and studied Mathematics and Physics at university.
Nikola Todorovic is the Co-Founder of Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk Company. An entrepreneur, visual effects supervisor, and award-winning filmmaker, Nikola spent most of his career working at the intersection of film and technology. This ultimately led him to dream up Wonder Dynamics with fellow co-founder and actor/producer Tye Sheridan. Together, they created the company’s proprietary AI software, Autodesk Flow Studio (previously Wonder Studio), a cloud-based 3D animation, CGI and VFX platform that combines artificial intelligence (AI) with established tools, helping artists more easily animate, light, and compose 3D characters within live-action scenes. In 2024, Wonder Dynamics was acquired by Autodesk, giving even more creators access to the industry-leading technology.
Edward Saatchi is a 2x Primetime Emmy Award-winner, producer of Oculus Story Studio’s Lost, Henry, Dear Angelica and Quill, and co-founder of Oculus Story Studio. He founded NationalField as part of the Obama Campaign and was named as Forbes 30 under 30 in technology for his technical contributions to the 2008 and 2012 campaigns with NationalField. In 2017, Saatchi and Pete Billington co-founded Fable Studio.
Jason Zada, founder, Secret Level: Jason Zada is an award-winning storyteller and director. In 2016, his first theatrical feature film, The Forest was released into theaters by Focus Features. Previously, Jason was most recognized for the Emmy Award-winning cinematic personal experience ‘Take This Lollipop’, which has been seen by over 100 million people all over the world. The film gathered 13 million Facebook Likes, making it the fastest growing FB app of all time. Jason’s unique blend of multi-screen storytelling landed him in Adweek/Creativity’s Top 50 most influential creative personalities of 2012. Starting at an early age, Jason was attracted to non-traditional storytelling. Creating Super8 films, programming text adventures on his Commodore 64 and video games formed a strong foundation as both an avid geek and storyteller. During the 1990’s Jason spent time telling stories in CD-ROMs and on the Internet. In the fall of 2000, Jason started the digital advertising agency Evolution Bureau and over the next 8 years grew EVB into a 65-person, world-renowned agency. This led to the holding company, Omnicom, to acquire a majority stake in the company. As a commercial director, Jason has worked with some of the most prominent advertising agencies in the world, such as Weiden + Kennedy, Crispin Porter Bogusky, Sid Lee, Leo Burnett, Saatchi & Saatchi, RPA, Y&R, Draftfcb, Kaplan Thaler and Grey on a variety of digital and broadcast projects. A lover of telling stories in front of strangers, Jason is often asked to speak at a variety of industry events including Cannes, South by Southwest and FITC. Jason’s work has appeared in New York Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Adweek, Shoot Magazine, Communication Arts, IndieWire, Contagious and a variety of other film and advertising publications.
Christina Lee Storm is an award-winning creative producer and senior media & entertainment executive recognized for her groundbreaking work at the intersection of storytelling and technology spanning film, television, animation, documentaries, virtual reality, augmented reality, and XR. Founder and CEO of ASHER XR and PLAYBOOK, Christina drives strategic and creative development of emerging technologies for series, film, digital, and multi-platform storytelling. She has been instrumental in implementing advanced production technologies, spearheading virtual production initiatives, and driving innovation in content creation and creativity for studio IP and franchises including Netflix, Universal, DreamWorks Animation. Christina is Governor of the Television Academy’s Emerging Media Programming peer group. She is globally recognized as a thought leader, keynote speaker, and panelist in the emerging media landscape tackling the topics of disruption in the entertainment industry and the role of technology in storytelling. Beyond her creative achievements, Christina helps shape the future of the industry by serving on the Television Academy’s AI Task Force and the Producers Guild of America’s Production Innovation Task Force. She has also served on the Producers Guild of America’s National Board of Directors and as Founding Member of DreamWorks Animation's TECHWomen.