The New Studio:
Storytelling in the Age of AI
Conversations about the future of story in film, brands, culture, technology, and beyond.
Hosted by filmmaker Joshua Edjida, The New Studio explores what makes stories work at a deeper level.
Each episode features a conversation with creators, founders, filmmakers, brand storytellers, cultural leaders, and people shaping the next era of communication.
Together, we look at why some stories feel alive, why others fall flat, and how storytelling is changing in a world shaped by AI, attention, and new creative tools.
This is a podcast for people who believe story is more than content. It is how we build meaning, shape culture, and understand what is trying to emerge next.
Episode 1: What is Hollywood Eight?
With Sarah and Joshua Edjida
Episode 1: What Is Hollywood Eight?
With Sarah Sol Edjida and Joshua Edjida
What comes after the old Hollywood model?
In this episode, Sarah Sol Edjida and Joshua Edjida explore Hollywood Eight — a new way of thinking about entertainment, consciousness, and story impact.
They discuss how Hollywood has evolved, why many creators remain trapped in outdated models, how film and gaming are beginning to merge, and what it means to create stories that awaken rather than numb.
Episode 2: Emotional Repression in AI + Entertainment
With Scott Kiloby
What happens when AI amplifies the consciousness of the person using it?
Joshua speaks with Scott Kiloby, creator of the Kiloby Inquiry method, about emotional repression, identity, technology, and the entertainment industry.
Together, they explore why AI does not simply create better tools — it magnifies the patterns already present in the creator. Repressed emotion can produce extractive technology, while deeper awareness can produce work that is more honest, integrated, and transformative.
They also discuss why the film industry often avoids raising standards, how suspension of disbelief can be used for manipulation or transformation, and why many conversations about AI miss the deeper human crisis underneath it.
Episode 3: Story as Transformation Technology
With Sarah and Joshua Edjida
Can story change the person experiencing it?
Sarah and Joshua explore the connection between storytelling, healing, imagination, and transformation.
Sarah works with ancestral patterns, soul retrieval, and shamanic journeying. Joshua works with film, theatrical embodiment, and the LUCID system. Although their methods are different, both use story as a way to access hidden material and create real change.
In this conversation, they discuss why the rational mind often blocks transformation, how play and imagination open doors that analysis cannot, how people unconsciously live inside different story patterns, and why movies still function like modern campfire rituals.
This episode asks what storytelling can become when creators stop using it only as distraction and begin treating it as a transformational art form.
Episodes 4-7: About the LUCID Approach of Filmmaking
With Joshua Edjida
In this four-part solo series, Joshua introduces the foundations of the LUCID approach to story, creativity, and filmmaking.
These episodes explore the hidden forces that shape a story before it reaches the page: shadow, subconscious patterning, theatrical embodiment, myth, archetype, and the deeper world behind the world.
Together, they offer a concise entry point into Joshua’s core work: understanding why some stories feel alive, why others feel mechanically assembled, and how filmmakers can create work with more depth, clarity, and transformation.
What Is a Shadow?
Joshua explores how shadow material shapes the stories we tell, the characters we create, and the creative blocks we struggle to name.
Introducing Storyworld Weaving
An exploration of world-building through living myth, archetypal pressure, and embodied truth — rather than surface-level lore or aesthetic design.
Introducing the Quantum Theater
Joshua introduces Quantum Theater as a process for entering the subconscious material behind a story and discovering what the work is really asking for.
What Is LUCID Filmmaking?
An introduction to the LUCID approach: a way of understanding film through consciousness, story diagnosis, and transformational impact.
Episode 8+: New Guests!
With Joshua Edjida
Coming soon!
