Venice Film Festival

• Reply presents the inaugural Reply AI Film Festival, an international competition where Artificial Intelligence (AI) serves not only as a catalyst for innovation in the realm of creative storytelling but also as a tool for fostering inclusivity among younger generations in video and film production.
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  With the theme "Synthetic Stories, Human Hearts," this edition of the Reply AI Film Festival celebrates the synergy between human talent and Artificial Intelligence, blending art, creativity, and technology harmoniously.
• Two years ago, we launched the first edition of the Reply AI Film Festival as an internal competition among our staff.
• The Reply AI Film Festival is part of the Reply Challenges, a program of technological and creative competitions that demonstrate Reply's commitment to developing innovative educational models capable of engaging the new generations.

• The experiences, presented with Deloitte, feature the World Premiere of The Golden Key and the US Premiere of Tulpamancer, both of which are in competition at SXSW.
• These installations demonstrate the role of art in reimagining the future and inspiring boundless potential to incubate new commercial applications.
• "I strongly believe we are witnessing a fundamental shift in how we create and consume media with generative machine learning models," says Matthew Niederhauser.
• "We're excited to be able to share these works at SXSW because they reflect our own attempts to make sense of the social, political, and artistic changes that AI is bringing about," says Marc Da Costa.

• Yorgos Lanthimos’ film follows Bella Baxter (Emma Stone), a scientist’s experiment created from a woman’s body and a child’s mind.
• But I think it is wrong to read Poor Things as a film about grown women.
• It accurately depicts girls’ early sexual feelings and shows us some more positive ways of understanding girlhood sexual desire.

Discovering sexuality

• Early in the film, Bella teaches herself to masturbate and is delighted by her discovery.
• Many of my interviewees had similar memories, often describing themselves as “exploring” their bodies and finding enjoyable sensations in the process.
• Interviewees, including Nicole, were normally aged between five and 10 during these experiences (which are normal and common among children).
• Interviewees regularly described their early forays into masturbation as disconnected from adult sexuality.

Girls are interested in sex

In the recent past, the media depicted boys as much more sexual than girls, who were supposedly interested in romance instead. Even magazines like Dolly – which catered to girls and spoke openly about sex – assumed girls’ sexual impulses would be awakened by their boyfriends’ advances.

• This is clear even in well-meaning advice to girls about not being “pressured” into sex, which presupposes girls would not initiate sex themselves.
• She concluded:
  obviously you’re not meant to have fun like that […] obviously you’re not meant to do it yourself.
• obviously you’re not meant to have fun like that […] obviously you’re not meant to do it yourself.

A healthy sexuality

• Several interviewees told me they learned the word “masturbation” from Dolly, which portrayed it as a normal and healthy practice.
• “Oh, that’s what I’ve been doing”, thought Nicole when she found instructions on how to masturbate in the magazine.
• She develops a healthy relationship to her sexuality; she knows sex should be enjoyable for her, not just for men, and that she should not be coerced into it.

• We can show future generations there is nothing shameful about sexuality.
• Read more:
  Poor Things: meet the radical Scottish visionary behind the new hit film

  *Names have been changed.

Saskia Roberts does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• This meant that the filmmaker, who was dubbed the "Huading Dream Builder," had to formally say goodbye to the Huading Awards.
• Wang Haige was chosen as the Huading Awards chairman in September 2017.
• He advocated the creation of a top-tier film award and implemented a significant overhaul of the Huading Awards throughout that six-year period.
• The Huading Awards have also gradually changed from the "People's Word of Mouth Awards" to the "Global Audience Word of Mouth Awards".