Entertainment
Free Seminar Teaches Documentarians When and How to Opt Out of AI
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.
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movies
Possession Remake: Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley Movie Sets Release
A remake of Possession is set to take over theaters.
Paramount is set to release filmmaker Parker Finn‘s reimagining of the 1981 supernatural feature on June 11, 2027. Callum Turner, Margaret Qualley, Diego Calva, Madeline Brewer, Emory Cohen, Nicholas Alexander Chavez and Paul Dano round out the cast.
Finn (Smile) helms Possession from his own script that is based on writer-director Andrzej Żuławski’s original film. The 1981 feature centered on a woman going through a divorce who begins exhibiting bizarre behavior.
More to come.
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Entertainment
Joe Scarborough Condemns Trump’s Vaccine Order as Dangerous
“Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough condemned President Trump‘s Monday executive order reducing the number of federally-recommended childhood vaccines, calling it “so stupid” and “so dangerous.”
“That’s just not true. I’ve studied that. That’s absolutely not true,” Scarborough said Tuesday morning, in response to a clip of Trump asserting in the Oval Office that the MMR vaccine needs to be divided into three separate vaccinations in order to be “not at all lethal” and “just very effective.” Co-host Mika Brzezinski echoed Scarborough’s sentiments.
“Physicians and scientists have said the single MMR shot is safe and effective, and breaking it up could leave children vulnerable to dangerous diseases for longer,” Brzezinski noted, adding, “Trump yesterday also repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism, despite scientific consensus and decades of studies that have firmly concluded there is no link.”
“I have a child who is on the spectrum, and this is something I have studied intensively,” Scarborough told “Morning Joe” viewers. “There’s not a single legitimate study that suggests vaccines play any role in the rise of autism. If there were, I would have been telling you about it over the past 20 years.”
“To see that happening in the Oval Office yesterday is what everybody feared would happen when Bobby Kennedy Jr. was put into that position,” Scarborough added of RFK Jr.’s appointment as Health and Human Services secretary.
You can watch the full “Morning Joe” segment yourself in the video below.
Scarborough and Brzezinski continued to hammer the dangerous potential of Trump and RFK Jr.’s ongoing vaccine claims.
“This is so stupid and it’s so dangerous, and it spreads so much disinformation,” Scarborough said. “Because of the lies, because of the conspiracy theories, now there are parents out there that are going to be frozen in place because they heard this coming out of the Oval Office and [they won’t] do what parents have done for generations to protect their children from terrible diseases.”
“High vaccination rates in the United States given on a medically recognized schedule have prevented the spread of potentially deadly diseases,” Brzezinski explained. “A study published in 2024 by the CDC found that, for children born from 1994 to 2023, routine vaccinations prevented approximately 508 million cases of illness, 32 million hospitalizations and more than 1.1 million deaths.”
Scarborough, Brzezinski and co-hosts Willie Geist and Jonathan Lemire all expressed befuddlement over Trump’s repeated reluctance to push back against Kennedy on any of his anti-vaccine rhetoric and policies.
“He’s just letting Bobby Kennedy Jr. run roughshod over him and endangering children in this country,” Geist said, prompting Lemire to add, “This is deeply dangerous.”
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt To Star In ‘Gaijin’ Drama At Hulu
EXCLUSIVE: Hulu, the streaming home of FX’s Emmy record-breaking Shōgun, is developing another drama about a Westerner’s adventures in Japan, this time set in the 21st century. The project, titled Gaijin, Japanese for foreigner or outsider, comes from Shōgun co-executive producer Shannon Goss. It is executive produced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt with an eye for him to star. Lionsgate Television is the studio.
Inspired by Ivan Orkin’s real-life story that led to the creation of Ivan Ramen, Gaijin is about an American culinary school dropout who spontaneously moves to Tokyo with his young son following his wife’s death. Desperate to maintain a connection to his wife’s home country, Ivan (Gordon-Levitt) plunges headfirst into life in Japan. He moves in with his in-laws, whom he barely knows and barely likes, and takes action on a long-held dream of opening his own restaurant – in this case, a ramen shop. Through hardships, culture clashes and humorous moments lost in translation, Ivan will, over the course of the series, take on the Herculean task of building a business and rebuilding a life.
Goss and Orkin executive produce alongside Gordon-Levitt and Jared Geller via Hit Record and Nickel City Pictures’ Mark Fasano, Matthew Goldberg, Michael Blustein and Andrew Gottlieb.
New York chef Orkin became famous for opening successful ramen shops in Tokyo, Japan before expanding Ivan Ramen to his home town and London and starring on Season 3 of Netflix’s Chef’s Table.
Goss is a writer/co-executive producer on Shōgun, sharing in the Outstanding Drama Series Emmy win for Season 1. She also recently co-executive produced AMC’s The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon. Goss is repped by WME and 3 Arts.
Gordon-Levitt, recently seen in Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man, has coming up movies Pendulum for Vertical, in which he stars alongside Phoebe Dynevor, Jacki Weaver and Norman Reedus, and AI thriller 2034 for Netflix, which he co-wrote and directed, with Rachel McAdams, Jeff Daniels, Joel Edgerton, Caleb McLaughlin and Alfre Woodard starring. 3rd Rock From the Sun alum Gordon-Levitt, whose recent series credits include Mr. Corman, Super Pumped and Poker Face, is repped by WME and Jackoway Austen Tyerman.
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