As Hollywood continues to wrestle with how to reckon with AI’s omnipresence, the Urbanworld Film Festival has opted for a full-on embrace. The New York-based festival dedicated to championing BIPOC stories — which has seen the likes of Ryan Coogler, Ava DuVernay, Nina DaCosta and Cord Jefferson make their way through its doors since it was founded in 1997 — is marking its 30th anniversary this October with “UrbanworldAI,” a new initiative in partnership with the New School that will see