Adapt or Die: A Working Filmmaker on AI in 2026

Podcast: Documentary First: Conversations on Documentary Filmmaking · Christian Taylor | Documentary First

Opublikowano: 2026-05-21

Adapt or die. What does that actually look like for a working filmmaker? Chicago documentary filmmaker Armin Korsos has a working filmmaker's answer to the question every documentarian is wrestling with right now. If you're not using AI, you will be losing work to people who do. In this conversation, Armin walks through how he turned 20 hours of pre-production paperwork into 30 minutes, how he uses AI image generation to send 40 pitches in the time it used to take to send 8, and why he believes the only currency that still matters in this industry is original ideas. <...