Locarno’s StepIn Focuses on ‘Power, People, Data and the Future of Film’: ‘The Counter-Algorithm Is a Human Being Who Gives a Damn’ (EXCLUSIVE)

The Locarno Film Festival's annual think tank, StepIn, is exploring power, people, data, and the future of film in its fifteenth year. Per Variety, organizers are confronting questions about algorithms and human judgment in the industry, framing it this way: 'The counter-algorithm is a human being who gives a damn.' The discussion builds on last year's thinking about risk-taking in independent cinema—a conclusion that playing it safe has rarely been the smartest strategy.

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