I’m not speaking from a place of privilege, I’m speaking from a place of survival.
Alex McNab has a BA in Cultural Anthropology from Columbia University and an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California, where we were classmates and friends.
In this conversation, Alex and I talk:
Is film school worth it? The debate between knowledge, network, and cost…
“Sloppy Saturdays” as a low-stakes practice to iterate fast and finish something weekly
Why he sees AI as using available “scraps” to keep making work in a shifting landscape
How he responds to “this is just AI” comments
My short doc Homegirls in Outer Space and Alex’s animated documentary proof-of-concept Gullah Binyah: Aisha Been Watts, both playing at the Pan-African Film Festival in Culver City the week of February 16th
Workflow and where AI tools are heading
Keeping the human story so the tool doesn’t become the film
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