I Hope This Helps! is a documentary by Executive Producers Matthew Modine & Adam Rackoff that explores the promise and peril of artificial intelligence.

Writer-director Daniel Freed enlisted Google’s AI chatbot Bard to help create the documentary, described as a “humorous, genre-bending hybrid film” that invites viewers to ponder “the evolving relationship between humanity and technology.”

Learn more about this award-winning film.

Film followed by panel with actor/filmmaker Matthew Modine, producer Adam Rackoff, professor Julian Jara-Ettinger, & journalist Karly Kingsley, moderated by Justin Matley

Meet and mingle with fellow filmmakers and other industry movers and shakers.

A List of Towns

Coming Down is the Hardest Thing

Experts in a Dying Field

The Hunter's Lament

The Lake in the Sky

The Man in Frame

The Next Bells

Third

Dear NSA

Gabriella's Muse

Into the Quiet

Lapse

SilverSizzle

The Boy in the Cabinet Beneath the Sink

The Interceptors

Ways to Go

When Everything Was Blue

Eulogy for a Dream House

Even the Women Must Fight

Hell is Empty

To The State of the Good Life

Anuja

Dissolution

Learning English

Room Taken

Tea

Trapped

RATIFIED is a feature documentary about the 100-year struggle for constitutional gender equality, an inspiring story of a multi-racial, multi-generational, bi-partisan effort to make Virginia the 38th and final state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment.

Following the film, FCCF’s President and CEO Mendi Blue Paca will introduce a Q&A with film producer and crowdfunding pioneer, Emily Best of Seed&Spark and FCCF’s Lutonya Russell-Humes, moderated by the dynamic Patti Russo from The Campaign School at Yale.

Join us at Norwalk Conservatory of the Arts (69 Wall Street) to learn from Emily Best, the founder of Seed & Spark, about the best practices for a successful crowdfunding campaign.

After our screenings have concluded for the day, come by The Flying Scotsman (30 Main St) for a drink. They’re offering half-priced Old Fashioneds and their signature cocktail, The Bees Knees.

Bay Creek Tennis Camp

Bump

Fresh Cut

Lucky Lenny

NANA

PEEPHOLE

Scratch Off

Bigfoot Bros

Capitol

Everything Happens

Ouchie

Release

Shoulder Season

The Girl in the Portrait

The Inheritance Game

The Seed

Triggered

Whifflebat

Join us in the theater to give out our audience awards and close out the 5th Annual Norwalk Film Festival!

THE WORK is an intensive four-part series workshop focusing on the day-to-day practice of filmmaking – all of it gleaned from seasoned professionals who roll up their sleeves to develop story, direct a casting, get the shots and master post.  

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Beam Brained Breakdown

Elevator Pitch

Non-Fiction

Pilea

The Ring

Would You Still Love Me

Immersion

Spectrum of Consumption

The Sugar Maker

Mayday: What happens When the Heroes

The 29th Connecticut

Come to our official Norwalk Film Closing Night Party following the Audience Awards Ceremony at Greer Southern Table at 7 River Street, a short walk away off Wall Steet.