Keynotes and panels on creativity, technology, and the future of filmmaking, on stages worldwide.
I sit across from the world's directors, producers, actors, and artists, and the studios, labels, and brands behind them. I promise them the impossible, then deliver it. On time, on budget, at the highest quality and the highest stakes.
I trade in trust, accountability, and results.
A selection, across three decades. The visual effects behind dozens of the biggest films, the studios that scaled the craft, and the generative AI remaking it now. On screen, in the chair, and in the room.
Three of those films, Titanic, What Dreams May Come, and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects. The artists earned those statuettes. My job was to lead the teams and clear the path so they could deliver. It has been the privilege of my career to do this work beside some of the most talented filmmakers, artists, and technologists in the world. Some of those collaborations have run two decades, the same directors from the first project to the latest.
The technology is rarely the hard part. Adoption is.
The winners are not the ones with the best model. They are the ones who get frontier capability working inside real teams, real pipelines, and real rights constraints, without breaking trust with the artists who matter most. That gap is where this work lives.
I work across the chain. The labs building the models, the studios buying the result, and above all the companies in between who have to turn one into the other.
Building, buying, funding, or betting on AI-driven production?
That is the conversation. Board roles, strategic advisory, and diligence for studios, their supply chain, AI labs, and investors.
ed@ulbrichadvisory.com