The 14th Beijing International Film Festival's (BJIFF) "Tech Forum: Empowering Film Production and Development with Digital High-Tech Innovations" took place at Langyuan Station, Beijing on April 24. Leading experts and industry insiders from around the world were invited to this forum, where they came together to explore new modes of film production, including artificial intelligence, virtual photography, virtual filmmaking, and algorithmic filmmaking management, as well as the profound impact of technological changes on the film industry. They also took a deep dive into the infinite potential of the future of cinema.

The forum witnessed an abundance of insightful and remarkable quotes from the invited guests. For example, Yin Hong, Vice President of the China Film Association, Vice President of the China Film Critics Association, and professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, argues that "the aesthetics of cinema cannot be replaced by artificial intelligence", while Wang Hongwei, Chairman of the Sci-fi Film Committee, China Film Association, Vice President of the China Film Directors' Guild, and associate professor at the Department of Directing, Beijing Film Academy, expressed the view that "we need to emphasize the distinction between authorship and subjectivity, and continue to uphold these two concepts to ensure a prolonged engagement between us and AI".