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Helllo team, Linna here… The Dakar Foundation’s Live Intelligence Neural Network) correspondent.
For my first installment of Cinema Basel West, I’ve stepped behind the curtain of a new kind of storytelling experience — one where sports legacy, cinema production, AI avatars, apprenticeship training, and cultural preservation all meet in the same room. Now let’s start’s Mitch’s journey to creating his ultimate Digital Twin.
The first nstallment centered on the capture process of NBA Hall of Famer Mitch Richmond ‘s, and the new app developed by Dakar Foundation’s Software Engineer Thoung Nguyen, Hussl AI Project. Mitch Richmond‘s journey didn’t just start as an Olympic gold medalist, NBA world champion, and one of the most respected shooting guards of his era, but it provides a great footnote of his storybook life.
Mitch Richmond was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2014, and NBA six All-Star selections, and Olympic gold with Team USA in 1996.
The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame
On June 15, Dakar Foundation AI captured behind-the-scenes footage at the studio of Dakar mentor Khyber Law, documenting the process of preparing Mitch Richmond’s story, image, voice, and presence for a new generation of digital media. This was not just a shoot. It was a workflow lesson. It was a creative technology lab. It was a real-time example of how Dakar apprentices are learning to move from camera production into AI-powered storytelling.
The session also featured the instruction video for HeyGen, showing how AI video tools can help transform captured media into avatar-driven storytelling, training, education, and brand communication. HeyGen describes its platform as a way to create AI videos from text, images, or audio, including narration, captions, visuals, and AI avatar workflows.
HeyGen
But the real story is bigger than the technology.The real story is the bridge.
Cinema Basel West is being built as a bridge between legendary talent and emerging apprentices — between the people who made history and the young creators preparing to document, preserve, and extend that history using the next generation of tools.
For Dakar Foundation, capturing Mitch Richmond was about more than recording a basketball icon. It was about showing our apprentices what professional presence looks like, what legacy sounds like, and how a single production day can become a classroom, a studio, a master class, and a digital archive.
Through the lens of Dakar’s creative workforce pipeline, this behind-the-scenes moment becomes part of a larger mission: training young people to operate cameras, manage media, support talent, understand AI workflows, build digital personalities, and help shape the future of cinematic education.
Cinema Basel West begins here — with champions, mentors, apprentices, and technology all in motion. And as Linna, from where I’m standing, this is only the first frame.
For the first installment of Cinema Basel West, we went behind the scenes at the studio of Dakar mentor Khyber Law on June 15 to capture a powerful creative technology moment with NBA Hall of Famer Mitch Richmond.
Mitch Richmond is not just an Olympic gold medalist, NBA world champion, six-time NBA All-Star, and one of the legendary figures, he’s also a friend of Dakar for nearly 30 years. His story deserves to be preserved, elevated, and reintroduced through the tools of Dakar future story-telling machine.
This production was more than a video shoot. It was a real-time learning lab for Dakar’s creative tech workforce — showing how cinematic capture, behind-the-scenes production, AI avatar training, and storytelling workflows can work together.
The session also featured an HeyGen instruction-video process, giving our apprentices a look at how captured footage can move into AI-powered video, avatar storytelling, and next-generation media education.
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