Expand your AI knowledge with the first of our Focus on: AI for Directors sessions from the Career Development and Skills team. We will first be joined by filmmaker and AI educator Cassie Quarless for a deep dive into AI text generators.
As a director, AI text generators can help you as a research tool, a creative thought partner, and even a script critic — if you know how to use them.
Cassie will demystify Large Language Models and introduce AI text platforms like Bard, Perplexity and ChatGPT. You will also discover how customising your own GPT can help you with unique tasks like summarising transcripts or adhering to specific editorial guidelines.
The session will also give a glimpse into various groundbreaking applications that are currently being developed. Stay ahead of the curve and harness AI’s creative and logistical potential — book your spot on this vital session today.
This session will be moderated by our Vice-Chair Anna Thomson.
When: Monday 5 February, 6 — 7.30pm
Where: Online
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This is the first of our sessions on Focus on: AI for Directors. Further sessions will be announced in the coming weeks.
Accessibility
BSL interpretation and live captioning will be present for this session. If you have any questions or access requirements, please contact [email protected].
About Cassie Quarless
Cassie Quarless is a producer/director and AI educator with a background in documentary. He has recently directed a TV documentary for the BBC about the late designer Virgil Abloh. Cassie has also recently written an e-book AI for Film & TV aimed at demystifying the world of generative AI for people in the worlds of film and TV. His first BFI funded feature length film Generation Revolution was released in cinemas in the UK and toured the US and South America. Cassie has developed documentary feature projects about Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm Shabbazz, the history of Black British Music with PBS, the BBC and HBO amongst others. He is currently an Eccles Fellow at the British Library and his work has been featured in The Guardian, Teen Vogue and i-D Magazine amongst many others.
About Anna Thomson
Anna Thomson is Vice-Chair of Directors UK. She has directed many films, including Long Lost Family: The Unknown Soldier (ITV), Portillo’s Hidden History of Britain (C5), A Great British Air Disaster (C4), Portrait Artist of the Year (Sky Arts), Al Murray’s German Adventure (BBC), Patisserie with Michel Roux (BBC), World War 2: The Last Heroes (C4) and Objects of Desire (Sky Arts). She also directed a Sundance backed feature documentary Yoghurt Utopia, short fiction and branded content.
Anna has recently stepped up to Executive Producing Tea with Bettany Hughes for Google Arts & Culture and two one-hour films, Treasures of Malta and Treasures of Greece for BBC News and Channel 4. Anna is a graduate of ScreenSkills’ prestigious Series Producer training scheme.
