Invitation: Advanced Screening of ‘The AI Doc’

The Emerson community is invited to an exclusive advanced screening of The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, on Monday, March 16, followed by a Q&A with producer and frequent Daniels collaborator Jonathan Wang.

The film will be screened at 7:00 pm, in the Bright Family Screening Room. The event is free to members of the Emerson community.

The AI Doc, directed by Daniel Roher, Oscar-winning director of Navalny, and Canadian filmmaker Charlie Tyrell, investigates the promise and dangers of artificial intelligence, through the eyes of a father-to-be. It premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and will screen as a Festival Favorite at SXSW this month. Two Emerson alumni – cinematographer Lowell A. Meyer ’11 and producer Daniel Kwan ’10, one half of dynamic directing duo Daniels – were involved in the production.

Wang, long-time creative collaborator of Kwan and Daniel Scheinert ’09, won an Oscar for their creative juggernaut Everything Everywhere All at Once. Beginning in music video production, Wang produced several award-winning videos for Bob Dylan, Beyoncé, and Jay-Z. He pivoted to feature filmmaking in 2015 with the Daniels’ Swiss Army Man, which won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. He and Daniels co-founded the production company Playgrounds.

School of Film, Television, and Media Arts Assistant Professor Andy Miara will moderate the post-screening Q&A with Wang.