Digital Hollywood: The AI & Entertainment Summit
Tuesday, July 21st, 2026
1– 1:50 PM Eastern Time Zone
Session I: A Virtual Event
The AI Director’s Cut: Creativity, Authorship & the New Filmmaking Frontier
AI filmmakers are no longer just experimenting, they are making real movies, real Hollywood creative production. Using advanced prompting, precise camera language, nuanced performances, and complex character interactions, creators are producing cinematic work that would have required entire crews just a few years ago. Short-form is already here. Feature-length may or may not ever arrive - that’s not the point. Because as the tools grow more powerful, a deeper question emerges: Who is actually the director? The human artist who conceives the vision, or the AI system that executes and sometimes surprises even its creator? This roundtable brings together leading AI filmmakers to screen their work and confront the defining creative, legal, and philosophical question of our time: What does authorship mean when the machine is a co-creator?
Speakers:
Eric Oldrin, Creative Director and co-founder, Original Model, former Meta AI
Christina Lee Storm, Head of Studio, Narrative, Secret Level
Quinn Haleck, Experience Director, Tool of North America
Katya Alexander, Producer/Director, Fable Studios
Connie Wailan Siu, Head of Production, Promise
Mark Goffman Writer/Producer, Netflix Series, The Umbrella Academy, Bull, Limitless, The West Wing, Moderator
Diana Colella is executive vice president of Autodesk’s Entertainment & Media vertical solutions group. In this role, she manages product, strategy and execution for the company’s portfolio servicing the film, TV and games industries. Colella has been with Autodesk for more than 20 years occupying a range of leadership roles, including head of product management and worldwide support. She has extensive experience in strategically transforming business models, creating new product offerings and optimizing processes on a global scale. Most recently, she served as vice president in Autodesk’s Business Strategy and Marketing group, leading the M&E and AutoCAD businesses, which represent more than $1B in annual recurring revenue. In this role, she drove the company’s strategy for digital conversion of non-compliant users and launched One AutoCAD. She is the executive sponsor of the Autodesk Women’s Network.
