AI and the Budget Filmmaker

60 mins
All Ages
What does AI offer filmmakers working with limited resources whilst honouring the work of artists? This forward-looking discussion considers how emerging technologies are reshaping creative workflows, opening new possibilities for storytelling at the lowest budget levels.

Presented in partnership with UTS Creative Practice Research Group, microWAVE 26 brings together a series of conversations exploring bold, independent filmmaking.

Special Guests

Chris Ebeling
Creative Technologist

Chris Ebeling is a Creative Technologist, Entrepreneur, and Digital Artist with almost two decades of experience spanning gaming, VFX, animation, AI, and transmedia. Currently working as a Partner x Education Advisor for Epic Games, he also leads his digital consultancy, Beyond Horizons. His work focuses on bridging the gap between creativity, technology, and entrepreneurship, empowering the next generation of creators to move from consumers of technology to builders of it.

Professor Isabella Alexander
Legal Historian/Scholar

Isabella Alexander is a legal historian and intellectual property scholar, whose research explores how laws inform and regulate the creation, circulation and reception of knowledge and culture from an historical perspective. She researches and teaches in intellectual property law and legal history, specialising in the law of copyright.

Sandy Cameron
Writer/Producer

Sandy Cameron is an Australian Writers’ Guild award-winning screenwriter and feature film producer. His film MOCKBUSTER is selected for the Documentary Australia competition at Sydney Film Festival. Credits include producing THE INFINITE MAN and writing Sam Klemke’s TIME MACHINE. His work has screened at Sundance, Toronto, Venice and SXSW, and streamed on Netflix, Stan and Binge. He has been AACTA-nominated, co-founded a SPA-nominated production company, and lectures in Film and TV at Adelaide University.

Tickets

Sat 6 June 2026, 12:30pm
The Hub
3 Guests
WheelchairClose Captioned
Presented By
  • Classification
    All Ages
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