Audiences need to be able to trust the footage they’re seeing when they’re watching the news or a documentary. But increasingly, popular video editing software includes AI functionality that you as a filmmaker may not know is there, let alone how you turn it off.

An upcoming seminar will address those concerns and help educate journalists and documentarians about when to opt out of AI and exactly how to do so. Field of Vision and Freedom of the Press Foundation are launching the sixth installment of their Digital Security Clinic, a free, online series of courses aimed at helping documentary filmmaking professionals and journalists with their digital footprint, IndieWire can reveal exclusively.

The clinics have over five years helped support over 500 filmmaking teams to date, and some of the early interest in this edition of the seminar is already surpassing last year’s edition.

This year’s Digital Security Clinic features most notably a new session titled “When and How to Opt Out of AI,” set for September 10, a session that Field of Vision co-creator Charlotte Cook told IndieWire was a much-requested topic from users of the site. She sounded the alarm on tools that may use AI in subtle ways, whether for things like auto correct or how they’re integrated into search engines, so it’s important for filmmakers to know exactly what their process is, prove that they have authored something, and do so for audiences who need their own trust in the media.

“Filmmakers have to be able to protect the imagery, what they’re working with, the footage, and be able to stand behind it knowing that there’s no influence that they don’t know about,” Cook said.

The trainers from Freedom of the Press as part of the session will step attendees through how to turn off certain AI features within editing tools and apps, where can they upload footage to protect it from AI crawling, how to tell whether things have been enhanced or edited, and more.

“It’s how to have a risk assessment as you evaluate AI tools and how things integrate,” Cook said. “It will even look at things like transcription services, how to protect your intellectual property and make sure that it is your intellectual property. One of the challenges we’re finding is, where is ownership in some of these tools? Some of them are changing user policies and making sure we’re protecting across the board that intellectual property.”

That’s just one session of five being offered over the next month however. Other sessions will highlight digital security, being able to communicate securely when traveling across borders or in sensitive areas, how to determine safe storage and encryption methods for your footage, and how to minimize your digital footprint including removing private material from your personal social media accounts.

Field of Vision offers a variety of resources and guides on these topics at https://www.digitalsecurity.film/. See the full schedule from the Digital Security Clinic below:

Getting Started With Digital Security, Thursday, August 13th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using risk assessment to strategize your approach to digital security, protecting your accounts from hacking and phishing attacks, securing your phones and laptops against digital and physical threats

Communicating Securely, Thursday, August 20th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using your risk assessment to select the “right” tool for communicating with your sources, maximizing safety through app settings, building a communications plan for sensitive contacts

Protecting Your Footage, Thursday, August 27th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using your risk assessment to determine safe storage for footage, strategies for using encryption to protect your footage, considerations for crossing borders while protecting sensitive documents and footage

Minimizing Your Digital Footprint, Thursday, September 3rd, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Auditing your digital footprint, removing sensitive information, identifying how personal data is collected in the first place, taking steps to prevent browsing data from ending up in unexpected places

When and How to Opt Out of AI, Thursday, September 10th, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Topics: Using your risk assessment to evaluate AI tools and integrations, transcription services, and protecting your intellectual property

Sign-ups for group training sessions are now open at bit.ly/digitalsecurity2026.

UPDATED, August 11: The full trailer for Amazon MGM’s Verity film adaptation is here.

Based on Colleen Hoover‘s best-selling psychological thriller novel, the film stars Anne Hathaway as the titular author Verity Crawford, who has remained nonverbal and unable to walk since a devastating accident left her in that state.

Josh Hartnett’s Jeremy Crawford recruits Dakota Johnson‘s Lowen Ashleigh to finish the final novel in Verity’s book series, but she has questions, like “Why can’t your wife finish her book series?”

The whine of her wheelchair mechanism strikes a creepy cord as a limp, unresponsive Anne Hathaway. Jeremy tells Lowen that “doctors don’t think she’ll ever walk or talk again.” This is important information for later. According to Jeremy, Verity called Lowen a “brilliant, undiscovered voice” and “the only writer who can finish this last novel.”

Lowen desperately needs the money, but she doesn’t realize what she’s walking into by taking the deal, as soon she gets romantically involved with Jeremy, but she has glimpses of Verity looking at her from outside the window of their reclusive mansion or standing in the doorway when Lowen’s kissing Jeremy.

“Her fans know her voice,” Lowen tells Jeremy. “The would know it’s not her.”

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Then, we get to hear Hathaway’s Verity narrate what is on a flashdrive engraved with the initials V.C., a chilling note to Lowen under the Word Doc with the file name “Autobiography.”

“This is my confession, my autobiography,” Hathaway’s voice says. “A writer’s words should be honest and bloody and a little bit terrifying.”

Flashes of Verity in a glamorous red dress with lipstick to match intercut with a version of her wearing less makeup in a darker setting as these words settle into Lowen’s mind.

“I was his drug, and he was mine,” Hathaway continues in reference to Jeremy. “This is your final warning, only darkness ahead.”

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Michael Showalter directs from a screenplay by Nick Antosca. Antosca and Showalter also produce alongside Alex Hedlund, p.g.a., Stacey Sher, p.g.a., Jordana Mollick, p.g.a., Hathaway and author Hoover. Executive producers include Johnson, Lauren Levine and Kerry Orent.

PREVIOUS, April 27: Amazon MGM Studios has unveiled the first teaser for Verity, its adaptation of the bestselling psychological thriller by It Ends with Us author Colleen Hoover.

The film, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson and slated to hit theaters October 2, follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who is hired to complete a successful book series after its author, Verity Crawford (Hathaway), is incapacitated. Once inside the Crawford home, Lowen becomes entangled with Verity’s husband Jeremy (Josh Hartnett) and uncovers an unfinished manuscript that may reveal disturbing truths about the author.

While Amazon MGM recently unveiled a trailer for the film at CinemaCon, as we reported, the teaser unveiled today is different.

It finds Lowen walking into the darkness of Verity’s home, with the author lying ill, in bed. The camera pans over to Jeremy, who promptly begins making out with Lowen with his wife in the room — and eventually, when Lowen pulls away, we see that it’s somehow Verity herself that she’s getting intimate with.

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“Even with my generous warning, you’re going to continue to ingest my words,” Verity tells Lowen in the trailer. “But know one thing: there is no light where we’re going. Darkness ahead.”

Directed by Michael Showalter, a frequent hire of Amazon MGM’s who reteamed with Hathaway on the heels of their rom-com The Idea of You, Verity also stars Ismael Cruz Córdova and Brady Wagner.

The film is one of a number of book-to-film adaptations based on the work of BookTok phenomenon Hoover, on the heels of Sony’s It Ends with Us, which broke out as an outsized commercial success at a worldwide gross exceeding $351 million, even as a legal battle between the film’s key creatives Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni threatened to overshadow that success. Paramount followed that film up quickly with Regretting You, a Hoover adaptation starring Allison Williams, Mckenna Grace, Dave Franco and Mason Thames, which grossed over $90 million. After that came Universal’s Reminders of Him, starring Maika Monroe and Tyriq Withers, which did more than $84M in theaters earlier this year.

Check out the first trailer for Verity below.