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Cue Christmas '26

AFRO TV / Cue Film Fest

Filmmakers must create original AI short films using generative AI video tools, with a Christmas theme. Finalists screen during the December 12, 2026 festival and live awards ceremony, broadcast nationwide on AFRO TV and streamed on NOW TV.

Prize

Four cash awards: Best Film, Best Image, Best Sound and Best Music Video

Best Film: Cash award
Best Image: Cash award
Best Sound: Cash award
Best Music Video: Cash award

Who can enter

Open to filmmakers submitting original one-minute or 30-seconds-to-three-minute films made using generative AI video tools and featuring a Christmas theme.

AI tools allowed

Any generative AI video tools

Tagged

Christmas, AI filmmaking, AI short film, AFRO TV

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We'll email you three days before Cue Christmas '26 closes, and when contests like it open.

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