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- Domain: entertainment
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entities/entertainment/louis-gheysels.md

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+---
+type: entity
+entity_type: person
+name: Louis Gheysels
+domain: entertainment
+status: active
+role: CEO, Obsidian Studio
+---
+
+# Louis Gheysels
+
+**Role:** CEO, Obsidian Studio  
+**Background:** CEO, Gang Group
+
+## Overview
+
+CEO who co-founded Obsidian Studio in January 2025 with Wes Walker. Previously CEO of Gang Group.
+
+## Timeline
+
+- **2025-01** — Co-founded Obsidian Studio as CEO
+
+## Sources
+
+- Hollywood Reporter, April 24, 2026

entities/entertainment/obsidian-studio.md

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+---
+type: entity
+entity_type: company
+name: Obsidian Studio
+domain: entertainment
+status: active
+founded: 2025-01
+headquarters: New York (+ Paris, Brussels, 2 other cities)
+website: 
+tagline: AI filmmaking production services company
+---
+
+# Obsidian Studio
+
+**Type:** Production services company  
+**Founded:** January 2025  
+**Founders:** Wes Walker (commercial director), Louis Gheysels (CEO, Gang Group)  
+**Headquarters:** Five cities including New York, Paris, Brussels
+
+## Overview
+
+Obsidian Studio is an AI filmmaking production services company founded to harness AI tools as facilitators for directors' visions. The company's mission is to "understand what exists in the minds of directors and use AI to serve those ideas" rather than treating AI as autonomous creators.
+
+## Key Partnerships
+
+- **Imagine Entertainment** (Ron Howard + Brian Grazer): Strategic partnership bringing Hollywood prestige production pedigree (A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Frost/Nixon)
+- **AWS (Amazon Web Services)**: Infrastructure backing for virtual production
+- **Kling AI**: Close collaboration with the Chinese AI video platform
+- **Wonder Project**: Working on "Innovative Dreams" production initiative
+- **Luma AI**: Production collaboration with AWS backing
+
+## Production Philosophy
+
+"If it's AI-detectable, you've failed." The company's standard is indistinguishability from human-directed filmmaking. AI serves creative vision, not replaces it.
+
+## Market Position
+
+Production services company combining generative AI and traditional filmmaking techniques. Represents institutional infrastructure formation around AI video generation tools, indicating the technology has crossed from experimentation to production-capable infrastructure.
+
+## Timeline
+
+- **2025-01** — Company founded by Wes Walker and Louis Gheysels
+- **2026-04-24** — Featured in Hollywood Reporter and CNBC as AWS-backed AI filmmaking startup
+- **2026-05-18** — Jon Erwin presenting at Kling AI panel at Cannes: "From Creative Possibility to Production Reality: Kling AI in Cinematic Workflow"
+
+## Sources
+
+- Hollywood Reporter, April 24, 2026
+- CNBC feature on AWS-backed Hollywood startup
+- Variety coverage of Cannes AI filmmaking panels

entities/entertainment/wes-walker.md

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+---
+type: entity
+entity_type: person
+name: Wes Walker
+domain: entertainment
+status: active
+role: Co-founder, Obsidian Studio
+---
+
+# Wes Walker
+
+**Role:** Co-founder, Obsidian Studio  
+**Background:** Commercial director
+
+## Overview
+
+Commercial director who co-founded Obsidian Studio in January 2025 with Louis Gheysels. Represents the creative leadership choosing to build with AI tools rather than resist them.
+
+## Timeline
+
+- **2025-01** — Co-founded Obsidian Studio, AI filmmaking production services company
+
+## Sources
+
+- Hollywood Reporter, April 24, 2026

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