An AI film contest that filters for one thing: a voice that's unmistakably yours. Not the glossy sameness AI defaults to — films with a fingerprint on them.
It could only have come from you.
No slop — no work where the maker disappeared into the machine.
Show how you made it.
Because AI should make you more yourself, not less.
Empty frames — waiting for yours.
Every entry comes with a “How I Made This”: the prompts, the dead ends, the choices, the cut. It isn't optional. Including it waives your entry fee.
Every film is assessed the same way — first by a structured AI evaluation, then by human judges. No black box. The rubric is public before you enter.
Selected or not, every filmmaker receives their full assessment. You leave with something useful whether or not you leave with an award.
The Auteur Award for the film that could only have come from its maker. The Process Award for the most revealing “How I Made This.”
Anyone can generate a beautiful shot now. That's exactly why the finished image tells you almost nothing about the maker. So we ask for the part that can't be faked: the making.
The “How I Made This” is where authorship becomes visible — the taste in the choices, the intention in the failures, the fingerprints in the edit. It isn't a formality bolted onto the entry. It is the evidence. And it carries its own prize.
The film shows us what you made. The process shows us that it was you.
Be first through the door. One note when entries open — nothing else, no noise.