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Russell Palmer, Co-Founder of CyberFilm AI: The meeting started with “I only took this meeting with you to tell you how much I hate you and I hate this idea and let’s see this thing, show me a demo, watch it crash and burn.”
Film Courage: You mentioned in a prior interview don’t meet your heroes which I think for anyone who’s ever met a hero they might relate to that for various reasons? Have you or your brother (who’s your co-founder) spoken with someone in the film and television industry and their reaction was less than favorable?
Russell: Absolutely. During the strike we had a lot of downtime. We decided not to release features or do marketing. We kind of went back into stealth mode just out of respect for both sides in the negotiations but we did take meetings with people because they were very interested and the writers and filmmakers had downtime too.
There was one writer who’s was written on big Marvel movies, I won’t name but top of their game, wealthy, successful and the meeting started with:
I only took this meeting with you to tell you how much I hate you and I hate this idea. Let’s see this thing, show me a demo, watch it crash and burn.
It was actually one of the proudest moments as a founder for me because at the end of the hour-long conversation after showing the demo and then telling our vision and our founding story and what our team’s made of, we had flipped him. The guy actually apologized and said I get what you’re doing. I’ve been reading The Hollywood Reporter and if every week there’s a…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Russell Palmer is a technologist and Silicon Valley Product Manager with a background in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, having worked at companies including Microsoft, Viv Labs AI, Samsung Research AI, and JPMorgan’s AI Lab at Stanford Research Park. He co-founded the startup CyberFilm AI in 2021 with his brother Andrew, an indie writer/screenwriter/director/producer/actor, founder of Synapz Productions and an AD on Hollywood productions around Toronto, Vancouver, and Los Angeles (and WGC/DGC/CMPA member).
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