Most software aimed at film is really software aimed at production accounting, wearing a clapperboard. It models the paperwork of a shoot without understanding the shoot. Students learn the tool and then have to unlearn it the first time they stand on a real set.
At NYU Tisch, students plan, shoot, and finish real films on LightsKiddo — and the difference is that the system was built by people who have done the job. It knows that a location move ripples into the call sheet, that a lens choice belongs to a shot, that a director's note has to find its way back to the script. It teaches the craft and the pipeline at once, the way a working set actually runs.
The board's interest was never in automation for its own sake. It was in giving the next generation a tool that respects judgement instead of replacing it.
This is AI for filmmakers, built by filmmakers.
Tatjana Krstevski, Chairperson of the AI Board at NYU Tisch, sees it as the point of the whole exercise: the machine handles the recalculation; the student keeps the decision.