The recent wave of global VFX studio closures and the resulting job losses shaking the film industry.

Guest: Alastair Orr, CEO of The Refinery

Artificial intelligence is not the Terminator lurking in the projector room, here to kick VFX artists into the unemployment line while a machine wins the Oscar. As someone who’s lived inside edit suites, dailies rooms, and post facilities long enough to see both the romance and the rot of the industry, our next guest says that AI isn’t here to replace the artists. It’s here to give them their lives back. It’s here to let them make better art and maybe, just maybe, go home in time to see their kids before they pass out from exhaustion.