‘The AI Doc’ Film Premiere

Date: Friday, May 1 2026 to Thursday, May 7 2026

The Sedona International Film Festival is proud to present the Northern Arizona premiere of “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist," showing May 1-7 at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres. From the Academy Award-winning filmmakers behind “Everything Everywhere All at Once” and "Navalny." A father-to-be tries to figure out what is happening with all this AI insanity. “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” is a hand-made, eye-opening documentary about the most powerful technology humanity has ever created … and what’s at stake if we get it wrong. A vital exploration of the revolutionary technology and the people behind it—from the major figures fast-tracking its development to the ones warning us about its dangers—the film, directed by Daniel Roher and Charlie Tyrell, is at once a thrilling primer, a call to attention, and an intimate personal story about what it means to look toward an uncertain future. In “The AI Doc," Roher embarks on a winding odyssey to understand this unwieldy, game-changing development, interviewing a range of AI skeptics and champions, pessimists and optimists, and realists and major power players—including CEOs such as OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Google DeepMind’s Demis Hassabis, and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei. Out of that deep dive emerges a tangle of momentous questions: Is humanity doomed? Are we living during the most promising time in human history or on the precipice of an age of extinction? What will become of us? “The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist” will be shown at the Alice Gill-Sheldon and Mary D. Fisher Theatres May 1-7. Showtimes will be Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, May 1, 2, 3, and 4 at 6:30 p.m.; Tuesday and Wednesday, May 5 and 6, at 3:30 and 7:00 p.m.; and Thursday, May 7, at 3:30 p.m. Tickets are $12, or $9 for Film Festival members. For tickets and more information, please call 928-282-1177. Both the theatre and film festival office are located at 2030 W. Hwy. 89A, in West Sedona. For more information, visit: www.SedonaFilmFestival.org.

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