How AI Is Revolutionizing Award-Winning Filmmaking (with Eric Hamilton)
Making a feature film has always started with someone else's permission. A writer spends months on a script, then spends a year asking studios for five or ten million dollars, and most of those conversations end in nothing. Eric Hamilton went around it. He prompts, keeps whatever the AI hands back, and lets the story bend around what the technology renders well, a method he calls machine perspective cinema. His first feature began as twenty short episodes he made to outdo viral cat videos. Strung together and submitted on a whim, the result won Best Sci-Fi at the New York International Film Festival against traditional films. Five features and four distribution deals have followed. In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Eric Hamilton, President and Executive Producer of EHAMX Studios, about why AI-specific film festivals have given him nothing while traditional festivals have handed him fourteen awards, how a fraternity pledge scene his own fraternity brothers called hard to watch became the emotional center of one film, and where he draws the line on likeness and intellectual property. Eric also lays out his plan for a forty film catalog under the EHAM Cinematic Universe. Want to see the films? Trailers are live at ehamx.com, with the first feature expected to reach streaming later this year. Check out the links below to follow Eric, connect with the EHAMX Studios team, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future. Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast Website: https://www.leadwithaipodcast.com Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lead-with-ai/id1802979004 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/01BFepfiNGP9pOrqWpmkud YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@leadwithaipodcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61572557201507 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leadwithaipodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@leadwithaipodcast Twitter (X): https://www.x.com/leadwithai Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tamaranall Website: https://www.tamaranall.com Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Eric Hamilton (President and Executive Producer, EHAMX Studios) LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eham06/ Website: https://ehamx.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/eham1906/ Email: eric@ehamx.net
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Making a feature film has always started with someone else's permission. A writer spends months on a script, then spends a year asking studios for five or ten million dollars, and most of those conversations end in nothing. Eric Hamilton went around it. He prompts, keeps whatever the AI hands back, and lets the story bend around what the technology renders well, a method he calls machine perspective cinema. His first feature began as twenty short episodes he made to outdo viral cat videos. Strung together and submitted on a whim, the result won Best Sci-Fi at the New York International Film Festival against traditional films. Five features and four distribution deals have followed.
In this episode of Lead with AI, host Dr. Tamara Nall speaks with Eric Hamilton, President and Executive Producer of EHAMX Studios, about why AI-specific film festivals have given him nothing while traditional festivals have handed him fourteen awards, how a fraternity pledge scene his own fraternity brothers called hard to watch became the emotional center of one film, and where he draws the line on likeness and intellectual property. Eric also lays out his plan for a forty film catalog under the EHAM Cinematic Universe.
Want to see the films? Trailers are live at ehamx.com, with the first feature expected to reach streaming later this year. Check out the links below to follow Eric, connect with the EHAMX Studios team, and subscribe to Lead with AI for more conversations with the leaders building the future.
Follow or Subscribe to Lead with AI Podcast on your favorite platforms Website: LeadwithAIPodcast.com | Apple Podcasts: Lead-with-AI | Spotify: Lead with AI | YouTube: @LeadwithAIPodcast | Facebook: Lead with AI | Instagram: @LeadwithAIpodcast | TikTok: @LeadwithAIpodcast | Twitter (X): @LeadwithAI Follow Dr. Tamara Nall LinkedIn: @TamaraNall | Website: TamaraNall.com | Email: Tamara@LeadwithAIPodcast.com Follow Eric Hamilton (President and Executive Producer, EHAMX Studios)
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