International Forum “Sustainable Digital Transformation for Creativity”
As part of the cross-border film festival Tribute to a vision, the International Forum “Sustainable Digital Transformation for Creativity” will take place in Gorizia (IT) on 8 October 2025, dedicated to artificial intelligence and the sustainable digital transition in the cultural and creative sectors. REGISTER FOR THE EVENT.
The keynote speaker will be Dr. Angus Finney, one of the world’s leading film experts and a key international authority on artificial intelligence in the cultural and creative industries. Finney is an ambassador of CogX AI, Europe’s largest festival and platform dedicated to AI, technology, and sustainable development; a consultant to the British Film Institute (BFI) and to Sweden’s Film i Väst, one of the most important European partners in film production and development.
His book The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood is considered a bible of the film industry. This year, he published his new work Human in the Loop: AI and the Film Value Chain (2025), to be followed in 2026 by AI and the Screen Industries (Routledge). He is also co-author of the key report BFI CoStar AI and the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forwards (April 2025).
In addition to Dr. Finney’s keynote, the forum will feature panel discussions with speakers from Slovenia and abroad, representing diverse fields of culture, creativity, and technology. Together, they will address the ethical, environmental, and social dimensions of using AI in culture and cinema, as well as explore the new tools and skills needed to sustainably face the challenges of the future.
Programme of the forum
- 09:00–09:30 – Arrival and registration of participants
- 09:30–10:30 – Introductory session
– Welcome address by the organisers
– Keynote: Dr. Angus Finney (University of Cambridge / Dancing Fox Entertainment) - 10:30–11:30 – Discussion I: Ethical, environmental, and social aspects of AI in culture and film (facilitated by Jana R. Wilcoxen)
- 11:30–11:45 – Coffee break
- 11:45–13:00 – Discussion II: AI for a sustainable future of CCS – perspectives from sector representatives (facilitated by Gwendolenn Sharp)
- 13:00–13:15 – Closing remarks (by Jana R. Wilcoxen)
- 13:15–13:30 – Go Green Cinema project highlights (facilitated by Mateja Zorn)
- 13:30–14:30 – Lunch and networking
Dr Angus Finney (UK) is an internationally recognised author, researcher and lecturer. Considered one of the leading experts at the intersection of film and artificial intelligence, his work focuses on the responsible and innovative use of AI in the audiovisual sector. He lectures at prestigious film schools and universities across Europe and Asia and works as a consultant for the British Film Institute (BFI) and the Swedish Film i Väst fund. He is an ambassador for CogX AI, Europe’s largest festival for artificial intelligence, technology and sustainable development.
He has written several reference publications for the AV sector, including The International Film Business: A Market Guide Beyond Hollywood (2022) and Human in the Loop: AI and the Film Value Chain (2025), which explores the impact of artificial intelligence on creative processes and the value chain in the film sector. Finney is co-author of one of the BFI’s key strategic documents on the future of artificial intelligence in the cultural and creative sectors, CoStar AI and the Screen Sector: Perspectives and Paths Forwards (2025). His monograph, AI and the Screen Industries (Routledge, 2026), will be published shortly.
In addition to his research and teaching, Finney is also an executive film producer with current projects across Europe, Africa and Asia, and co-founder of Proof of Concept, an online educational platform for AV professionals. His extensive experience includes managing the Film London Production Finance Market (2007–2017) and Renaissance Films studio (1999–2005), making him a key link between theory, practice and the future of the film industry.
Participants in the discussions
Jana Renée Wilcoxen (SI) is a translator, copyeditor and cultural project consultant with over 30 years of international experience. Since 2000, she has been based in Ljubljana, working on European cooperation projects with Slovenian institutions and NGOs. She is also active as a facilitator and mentor, supporting cultural managers with project development, funding applications and skill building.
Anna Giralt Gris (ES) is an acclaimed filmmaker, producer and researcher, as well as CEO and co-founder of Artefacto, a centre for research, production and innovation in film and technology based in Barcelona. She has produced and directed films that have been selected and awarded at festivals such as TIFF, NYFF, IFFR, CPH:DOX, Visions du Réel, HotDocs, SXSW and IDFA, among others. In 2018, she was selected for the IDFA DocLab Academy and in 2019 for the Berlinale Talent Campus. Since 2017, she has been researching the impact of AI on cinema, and her latest presentations have taken place at the Marché du Film in Cannes, Sheffield Doc Fest, Sunny Side of the Doc and the international conference Picture This, among others.
After studying European Literature in Bologna and European Affairs at Sciences Po Paris, Marco Fiore (IT) specialised in advocacy for the European cultural sector, particularly in the digital sphere. He holds a specialisation in the Ethics of AI from the London School of Economics and Political Science. At the core of his work are efforts to raise awareness of critical issues affecting the sector and to foster constructive dialogue. Marco is committed to advancing intersectional climate action through the lens of culture, promoting a fair digital transformation and supporting culture as a catalyst for societal change. He works as a cultural policy expert at the Michael Culture Association, a European network for digital cultural heritage (BE). He also serves as coordinator of the Digital & AI Action Group at Culture Action Europe (BE).
Gwendolenn Sharp (FR) is the founder of The Green Room (2016), a non-profit organisation developing strategies for environmental and social change in the music industry. She has collaborated with cultural institutions, festivals and environmental NGOs in France, Germany, Slovenia, Tunisia and Poland. She has extensive experience in project design, international cooperation and the development of customised tools for culture and the environment. Gwendolenn is an AGF festival green certification assessor, a certified Bilan Carbone auditor, an alumnus of the Keychange programme (2022) and a resident of Villa Albertine (2023), running a research programme on low-carbon touring in the United States.
Filip Dobranić (SI) – hacker, philosopher, cultural sociologist and social media theorist, co-founder of Today Is a New Day institute, an independent non-profit organisation based in Slovenia, established in 2013. The organisation leverages digital technologies and develops innovative campaigns to advance democracy, civic participation and social change. Its mission is to contribute to a more just, open and inclusive society by defending digital rights and freedoms, promoting responsible use of technology and data justice, fostering political participation and inclusive decision-making, enhancing institutional transparency through open data and building broad civic coalitions.
Tanja Petrič (SI) works as a literary critic, a translator from German and an editor. She has received several awards for her translation and reviews. A member of the Slovenian Association of Literary Critics and the Slovene PEN Centre, she has served since 2020 as the president of the Slovenian Association of Literary Translators (DSKP). She also serves as a delegate to the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations (CEATL) and as a member of its authors’ rights working group. She actively advocates for the literary translation profession and improving translators’ working conditions. More recently, she has been active in addressing issues of transparency, ethics and the protection of authors’ rights in the digital environment, particularly regarding the training of generative AI models, as well as analysing machine-translated texts. In this context, she initiated the campaign “UIzi prevedeno. UIzi zgrešeno” (Easily TranslAIted. Easily MisstAIted.) for the preservation and development of language professions, which runs from 29 September to 31 October 2025.
Nejc Trampuž (SI) is a multi-award-winning new media artist whose work has been showcased at approximately 100 exhibitions, festivals and events both in Slovenia and internationally. His practice spans multimedia, technology, ecology, social issues and activism. He is known for his audiovisual, often interactive digital art experiments, characterised by a saturated, collage-like aesthetic. Trampuž explores a wide range of artistic approaches and technologies, including artificial intelligence, the internet, animation, automation, interactivity, film, video, sound, glitch, projection, light and more. Among his most notable recent works are the computer game Solandium 2063, the artistic research project Another Future Entirely, and the pioneering experimental short film Rooted in Code – the first Slovenian film created with artificial intelligence – which received two major awards at international film festivals. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design at the University of Ljubljana, where he was recognised with an award for his master’s thesis.
Ivan Iovine (IT) is an interaction designer, researcher and media artist. His artistic practice explores the interplay between robotics, artificial intelligence and biomimetics. He uses emerging technologies to weave together virtual and physical worlds, developing speculative scenarios that make visible the questions surrounding our relationship with nature and technology. His work has been presented at international festivals and museums. He has been awarded scholarships and residencies from institutions such as Officine Arduino (IT), BEK – Bergen Centre for Electronic Arts (NO), Center ROG (SI) and Chemnitz Kulturhauptstadt 2025 (DE). He has worked as a research associate at Fraunhofer IGD and as head of the Robotics Lab at the University of Art and Design Offenbach am Main. Currently, he is a research associate at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam, where he teaches AI and robotics in creative contexts.
Urša Menart (SI) graduated in Film and TV directing from University of Ljubljana Academy for Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in 2010. She directed few documentaries (What About Mojca?, There Once Was a Land of Hardworking People) and co-wrote two feature films: Nightlife (directed by Damjan Kozole and co-written by Damjan Kozole and Ognjen Sviličić which won Best Director Award in Karlovy Vary IFF 2016) and Half-Sister (Karlovy Vary IFF, 2019). Her debut feature as writer-director My Last Year as a Loser (2018) won multiple awards at the Festival of Slovenian Film, including Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress, and a Special Mention from the film critics’ jury. She’s the president of the Directors’ Guild of Slovenia, member of Screen Actors Guild of Slovenia and voting member of European Film Academy.
The event is organized by Motovila (Creative Europe Desk Slovenia) in partnership with the European network of Creative Europe Desks and Kinoatelje, as the concluding event of the Go Green Cinema project (which also includes Itinerante cinema Isonzo-Kino Soča), supported by the European Union through the GO! 2025 Small Projects Fund of the Interreg VI-A Italy–Slovenia 2021–2027 Programme, managed by EGTC GO.