Maciej Żemojcin

When a five-person team from Poland entered the AI Film World Championship, the hard part was not the tools. It was people: who does what when anyone can suddenly do almost anything, and how a team keeps talking when the old job titles stop making sense.

Poland won the Cup, and the team’s film ‚Elegy‘ placed third among 510 entries from 16 countries. Between rounds the roles were redefined every time, and that turned out to be the most valuable skill of all.

Maciej Zemojcin shares what the competition taught him about using AI to streamline communication between people, and about the new roles emerging across film and media. Everything comes from practice, from a contest where more than a thousand people were working it out at once, including how the work was split and re-split each round, what broke and what made the team faster.