Entrepreneurs: How AI Brought Sacagawea Back to Life on Screen with Lynn Rogoff

About this episode

Lynn Rogoff discusses how AI transformed a screenplay about Sacagawea into an award-winning cinematic experience.

Richard Gearhart and Elizabeth Gearhart, co-hosts of the Passage to Profit Show interview Lynn Rogoff from Amerikids Productions. Lynn Rogoff, founder of AmeriKids Productions, shares how she transformed a long-forgotten screenplay about Sacagawea into an award-winning AI-powered cinematic experience. In this fascinating conversation, Lynn explains how artificial intelligence, prompt engineering, interactive AI characters, and human creativity are reshaping filmmaking, education, and storytelling. Discover how her team used AI video generation, real actors, and innovative production workflows to create a groundbreaking historical adventure that’s now streaming online and winning film festivals around the world. Read more at: https://www.amerikids.com/ Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur, startup founder, inventor, or small business owner, the Passage to Profit Show is a leading podcast for insights on entrepreneurship, innovation, intellectual property and business strategy. Hosted by Richard Gearhart and Elizabeth Gearhart, the show features industry leaders, investors, and founders who share real-world lessons on scaling companies, protecting ideas, building generational…

People in this episode

Hosts: Richard Gearhart, Elizabeth Gearhart

Guest: Lynn Rogoff

Topics covered

• AI in filmmaking
• entrepreneurship
• storytelling
• interactive AI
• cinematic experience
• education

Keywords

• AI
• filmmaking
• Sacagawea
• storytelling
• interactive characters
• innovation
• entrepreneurship

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Amerikids Productions

Books & works: Sacagawea

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