Senior Account Director, TV, Film, Documentaries This was the first time I attended SXSW without the Austin Convention Center serving as the central hub, as it’s currently closed for expansion and redevelopment. Many attendees wondered how this would impact the overall experience, but in my view, the organizers did an excellent job activating spaces across downtown Austin as showcase venues, panel rooms, and networking hubs. They also introduced dedicated “clubhouses” for eac

From metadata to dubbing to fandom building, executives say the future of unscripted is already here and it’s operational. At this year’s RealScreen Summit in Miami, a panel of unscripted executives made one thing clear. Artificial intelligence is no longer a futuristic talking point in unscripted television. It is infrastructure. Key Takeaways AI is now core infrastructure in unscripted TV , not a future experiment—already shaping distribution, monetization, localization, an

The morning of my last day at Sundance Film Festival is more forgiving than the day prior. I wake up at a leisurely 7:45 AM (sleeping in here) and slowly make my way to the Stacked Sandwich Co near the festival’s headquarters. I sit down for a meal. It’s luxurious. I take the liberty to order a cortado instead of a black coffee. It’s delicious. My first screening of the day is Jay Duplass’s See When I See You , the film’s premiere. It’s beautiful and heavy, centered on a fami