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PixLight 2026

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PixLight 2026 is PixVerse's free annual AI film contest with a $300,000 prize pool across 33 awards. Pilot Track: a finished 3 to 20 minute AI short or pilot episode made with PixVerse Canvas as the primary platform. Script Track: a 45 to 90 minute feature screenplay plus a short video pitch. Three genre directions: Under the Skin, Worlds Beyond and Edge of Seat. Deadline extended from October 9 to October 31, 2026. Creators keep ownership of their work.

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A Gossip Goblin GenJam

645 Ventures, Machine Cinema, Google DeepMind, Showrunner and Gossip Goblin

An in-person generative AI film jam at Google DeepMind in San Francisco. Fifteen accepted teams get one Gossip Goblin seed clip and one evening to turn it into a short film of up to two minutes. Application only, reviewed on a rolling basis.

🎞️ Short Film🫧 Experimental
PrizeVerified Sep 20, 2026
$2,000 first place + credits
Open
Oct 10, 2026
Deadline

AIMA London 2026 – AI Movie Awards London

AIMA in collaboration with JD Media

AIMA jumps from Mallorca to the prestigious IET London for its first-ever UK edition — November 7–8, 2026. This edition expands AIMA beyond film into Art Image, Art Motion, Ads, and Music. Submissions run June 15 to October 10, 2026.

🎞️ Short Film📽️ Feature🎠 Animation🗺️ Documentary
PrizeVerified Oct 3, 2026
Sculpted trophy and/or digital certificate, a distribution deal and partner prizes across 19 categories
Open
Oct 10, 2026
Deadline

AI Movie Awards: AIMA

AI Movie Awards

An AI-focused festival for films, music videos, music, art, and ads created primarily with AI tools. Winners are screened at IET London in London, United Kingdom.

🎞️ Short Film
PrizeVerified Sep 18, 2026
Not stated on the provided page extract
OpenFree
Oct 11, 2026
Deadline

orhena AI Contest 2026

orhena

Post an AI-made video or image on orhena with #orhenaContest and share it on X or Instagram to enter; three cash winners plus a free Pro month for every entrant.

🎞️ Short Film
PrizeVerified Sep 27, 2026
US$30 / US$20 / US$10 cash + feature on orhena's official accounts + 1 year of orhena Pro for winners (every entrant also gets 1 month of orhena Pro)
Open
Oct 15, 2026
Deadline

Tel Aviv AI Film Festival (TLVAIFF)

TLVAIFF Team

A first-edition, one-day competition for short AI-generated films at the Tel Aviv Cinematheque, held as part of Tel Aviv AI Week and centered on a creative bridge between Israel and India.

🎞️ Short Film
PrizeVerified Oct 4, 2026
In-kind prizes from festival partners across five award categories
OpenFree
Oct 15, 2026
Deadline

MetaMorph x TapNow — Autumn Activation

MetaMorph × TapNow

First of four free seasonal AI filmmaking competitions leading to the MetaMorph AI Award 2027; at least 50% of each film must be generated with TapNow.

🎞️ Short Film🫧 Experimental
PrizeVerified Oct 1, 2026
£500 cash plus 20,000 TapNow credits to the seasonal winner (10,000 to runner-up); finalists advance to the MetaMorph Award 2027
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Closes today
Oct 16, 2026

AI New Orleans SHORTS

AI New Orleans SHORTS

First-year short film screening in Marrero, Louisiana for films where AI played a real, describable role in the script, images, voice, score, or edit. One in-person screening with Q&A, no premiere requirement.

🎞️ Short Film🫧 Experimental🪩 Music Video
PrizeVerified Oct 5, 2026
Laurels across seven award categories; no cash prize published
OpenFree
Closes today
Oct 16, 2026

DAIFF — Disrupt AI Film Festival by TBWA

TBWA\Australia

Australia's biggest GenAI film festival is BACK — and submissions are open right now. TBWA's DAIFF returns for its 2nd edition, closing October 16, 2026, with a Melbourne Gala screening on November 18 (Sydney encore to follow). Backed by Google, Leonardo.AI, BMW and RMIT/Swinburne/AFTRS. Theme: 'Humans and Their Tools' — human-in-the-loop storytelling where AI is co-creator, not competitor. Free to enter.

🎞️ Short Film
PrizeVerified Oct 5, 2026
A$10,000 total prize pool + Grand Prix + Melbourne Gala screening
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2 days left
Oct 18, 2026

IA en Corto — International AI Short Film Festival (2nd Edition)

IA en Corto

An online AI short film festival based in Santiago, Chile, now in its second edition, accepting films in Spanish and English. Your film does not have to be fully AI-generated, but the AI has to matter creatively. Four sections (sci-fi and cyberpunk, fiction and animation, psychological thriller, vertical shorts up to 2 minutes). Extended deadline Oct 18 on Festhome or Movibeta; festival runs Oct 20–24, 2026.

🎞️ Short Film🫧 Experimental🎠 Animation🗺️ Documentary
PrizeVerified Oct 1, 2026
Distribution consulting (1st), AI training (2nd), 10,000 FilmSpark credits (3rd) + laurels in 8 categories
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2 days left
Oct 18, 2026

AI Cinema Festival Canada — Ottawa 2026

AI Cinema Festival

A bilingual Ottawa festival for hybrid human+AI and fully AI-generated cinema, screening November 13–15, 2026 with awards across five tracks.

🎞️ Short Film🫧 Experimental
PrizeVerified Sep 10, 2026
Grand Prix Canada + 4 named awards
Open
3 days left
Oct 19, 2026

AI Filmfest Athens 2026

AI Filmfest Athens — Festival Director Christina Duxa

An AI film festival at The Ellinikon Experience Centre in Athens, themed "Myths Meet Machine," honoring short films made with AI across storytelling, direction, and visual/sound achievement.

🎞️ Short Film🫧 Experimental🎟️ Advertising
PrizeVerified Sep 27, 2026
€1,000 per competitive category
Open
4 days left
Oct 20, 2026

Golden Dunes Dubai International Film Festival 2026

Golden Dunes Festival

Three AI categories at Dubai's Golden Dunes International Film Festival: Best AI Short, Best AI Commercial and Best AI Music Video, judged to the same standard as its 13 traditional categories. Late deadline October 20, selections announced November 12, festival November 28-30 in Downtown Dubai with the awards ceremony at Belcanto on the Dubai Opera rooftop.

🎞️ Short Film🏮 Commercial🪩 Music Video
PrizeVerified Oct 7, 2026
24-karat gold-plated clapboard trophy + Dubai festival screening

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