Shanghai Film Festival Takeaways: Debut Directors Rule the Golden Goblet While AI Remakes the Industry Around Them

The 28th Shanghai International Film Festival closed June 21 with its clearest statement yet on what the industry values most: new voices, deep pipelines, and an embrace of artificial intelligence that it insists will complement rather than displace the humans making films. Whether the industry believes that last part is another matter. Debut Directors Had […]

By Naman Ramachandran