Award-winning filmmaker Khoa D. Le (“Walt Before Mickey,” “Bezos: The Beginning”) and his AI co-host Maya reveal how to slash indie-film pre-production time by 70%—without sacrificing story or quality. If you’re ready to turn micro-budgets into blockbuster visuals, this episode is your blueprint.

––––– WHAT YOU’LL LEARN –––––
• The exact AI workflow Khoa uses: ChatGPT beat-sheets, Claude rewrites & Midjourney storyboards
• Why scripts are only *blueprints*—and how to improvise on set
• The social-media burnout trap & how to protect your creativity
• Building a Web3-style film community that funds future projects
• Hard truths: why 99 % of indies lose money (and how to be the 1 %)

––––– CHAPTERS –––––
00:00 Intro & AI co-host reveal
02:45 5D Mark II: the indie origin story
07:25 AI pre-production hacks
10:44 ChatGPT beat-sheet tutorial
16:09 Burnout vs. algorithm pressure
22:46 Filming in Vietnam & Ghana
26:32 Decentralized film-community vision
36:06 Call to action & next-episode teaser

––––– LINKS –––––
• Kvibe Studios → https://www.kvibe.com
• Discord (Founding Crew) → https://discord.com/invite/DqXcdQHder
• Khoa Le on Substack → https://khoalefilms.substack.com
• IMDb → https://imdb.com/name/nm3357359

––––– CONNECT –––––
Instagram · https://instagram.com/khoalefilms
TikTok · https://tiktok.com/@khoalefilms
LinkedIn · https://www.linkedin.com/in/kvibe

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