BC + AI Film Club
AI Film Club: March 2026
March's AI Film Club brought filmmakers, technologists, and curious creative people back into the room at Multimodal Media Lab for screenings, experiments, and frank conversation about what AI is changing in production culture.
Kevin Friel framed creative burnout and control through a punk-rock production lens, Suzy Easton talked about building her own AI platform after an accidental hackathon path, and Diane Laidlaw made the case for story over spectacle in AI-assisted work. The night also carried a GDC win into the community announcements and a prompt challenge that veered gleefully absurd — ASMR experiments and AI-generated toilet paper ads among them.
This gallery is a record of the room itself: people watching, presenting, and turning a fast-moving tool landscape into a shared creative practice.
Photos from this meetup
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Videos from this event
Selected recordings matched from YouTube titles, descriptions, and captions.
AI burnout, punk rock, and community: BC + AI Film Club March 2026
Event recap
March Film Club recap on creative burnout, punk-rock production instincts, and the community structures that make experimentation sustainable.
Watch on YouTubeCommunity announcements: platforms, jobs, and a GDC win
Community announcements
March Film Club announcements covering platforms, jobs, community wins, and a GDC moment.
Watch on YouTubeCommunity announcements: MAC, AI Film Club, and the road ahead
Community announcements
A Vancouver AI March community update connecting MAC, Film Club, and upcoming creative AI programming.
Watch on YouTubeAI burnout and the punk rock future of film
Kevin Friel
Kevin Friel frames AI burnout, creative control, and indie film practice through a punk-rock production lens.
Watch on YouTubeSuzy Easton on building her own AI platform
Suzy Easton
Suzy Easton explains how an accidental hackathon path led her to build her own creative platform instead of accepting someone else’s limits.
Watch on YouTubeASMR AI Film prompt challenge
Film Club prompt challenge
The March prompt challenge collects weird, tactile, ASMR-inspired experiments from the Film Club community.
Watch on YouTubeStory over spectacle: AI, representation, and human emotion
Diane Laidlaw
Diane Laidlaw talks about emotional, human-centered AI filmmaking and why representation matters more than spectacle.
Watch on YouTubeTertiary artifacts, Soundtrap, and AI-powered karaoke workflows
Joel Flynn
Joel Flynn shares experiments around sound, artifacts, and playful AI karaoke-style workflows.
Watch on YouTubeAI-generated toilet paper ads?!
Film Club prompt challenge
A playful prompt-challenge segment showing how far community experiments can stretch commercial and absurdist formats.
Watch on YouTube
More from this event
March's AI Film Club brought filmmakers, technologists, and curious creative people back into the room at Multimodal Media Lab for screenings, experiments, and frank conversation about what AI is changing in production culture.
The night moved between community announcements, prompt challenges, and practical talks from creators working through the messy middle: burnout, authorship, representation, sound, tools, and the punk-rock instinct to make work before the rules are settled.
This gallery is a record of the room itself: people watching, presenting, asking questions, comparing notes, and turning a fast-moving tool landscape into a shared creative practice.
What this is
AI Film Club: March 2026 is a BC + AI community event recap with photos, recordings, and details from the Vancouver AI ecosystem.
Who it is for
AI builders, researchers, policy people, creatives, educators, students, and citizens looking for practical local AI community.
When and where
Thursday, March 12, 2026, 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM PDT at 375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada.
How to join
Browse upcoming Vancouver AI events, RSVP on Luma, or become a BC + AI member to support the association behind the gatherings.
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- Event:
- AI Film Club: 03/12
- Date:
- Thursday, March 12, 2026
- Time:
- 6:30 PM – 10:00 PM PDT
- Location:
- 375 Water St, Vancouver, BC V6B 5C6, Canada
- Organizer:
- BC + AI Ecosystem Association
- Status:
- Scheduled
- Attendance:
- In person