IA Play International Film Festival — Panamá

IA Play International Film Festival / Cultural Beast

International competition for AI-driven audiovisual work, with online screenings and a public/jury vote in Panama City feeding into a Grand Final among the festival's host cities. Accepts fiction, documentary, experimental, animation, and hybrid AI+traditional works up to 40 minutes.

Prize

€500 Jury Prize and €300 Audience Prize at the Grand Final, plus €250/€150 prizes and NFTs at the Panama stage

Panama stage: €250 Jury Prize + NFT
Panama stage: €150 Audience Prize + NFT
Grand Final: €500 Jury Prize + NFT
Grand Final: €300 Audience Prize + NFT
All Official Selection films receive a certificate

Who can enter

Open worldwide to creators, digital artists, filmmakers and experimenters. Films must use AI meaningfully in the creative process (not merely as a technical aid), be completed on or after January 2023, and run up to 40 minutes.

AI tools allowed

Any AI tools.

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international, nft prize, panama, hybrid ai, latin america

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