George Clooney, Venice chief Alberto Barbera and Venice jury president Maggie Gyllenhaal are among speakers set to take part in the second CAA and Finch & Partners The Future of… Creativity forum, which will take place during the festival.
Barbera will host the invite-only gathering, which will also feature director and screenwriter Giuseppe Tornatore, composer Alexandre Desplat and Cardinal Jose Tolentino de Mendonca who serves as the Prefect of the Dicastery for Culture and Education at the Vatican.
Clooney will be in town to receive the festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement.
Set within the Scuola Vecchia della Misericordia on Friday 4 September, the symposium, presented with the support of festival sponsor Mastercard, “will convene artists, filmmakers, writers, technologists and cultural leaders for a day of thoughtful discussion and debate”. It will feature two panel discussions with audience participation, before concluding with a private dinner.
Following on from the inaugural forum during the Cannes Film Festival, which featured Darren Aronofsky, James Gray, Nadine Labaki, Whit Stillman, J.A. Bayona, and executives from Mubi, A24, Sony Pictures Classics, Neon, Focus Features and Sony Pictures, the Venice event will pose the question ‘what is the future of creativity in the age of transformational change?’
Alberto Barbera explained: “Storytelling has accompanied every stage of human civilisation, and the tools for telling stories have never stopped changing. Artificial intelligence may prove the greatest change yet, with an impact on human activity perhaps greater even than that of the 19th-century Industrial Revolution. There is much discussion, quite rightly, about its worrying aspects: the repercussions for employment, for artists’ copyright and image rights, and the ethical dimension of the phenomenon. I believe it is important, however, to begin with a different question: what does this mean for creativity itself, and what new tools, if any, might it offer to support the work of artists, and of filmmakers in particular. To this end, we have asked a select group of qualified artists to discuss the topic freely, expressing their views, in the hope that this might help to open a new chapter in the debate on the future of creativity and storytelling.”
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