A workflow redesign showing how deterministic automation, assistive AI and human judgement can coexist without handing artistic selection to a model.
A fictional international festival receives 1,200 films. Six programmers have eight weeks to process submissions, review materials, assess films, select work and prepare communications.
Eligibility checks, missing fields and metadata normalisation — using deterministic, auditable rules.
Reading materials, draft tags, comparing evaluations, communications and catalogue drafting — always validated by people.
Viewing films, artistic quality, curatorial fit, disagreement resolution and final selection.
Any possible ineligibility is flagged and routed to human review rather than executed automatically.
Audit language, regional and cultural error patterns; AI cannot rank or break ties between films.
Minimise access, separate permissions by role and keep sensitive materials outside external training use.
Independent simulation. No operational results or observed performance metrics are claimed.