Creative audiovisual festival «AI Awards»

Participation is open to students and emerging creators as well as professionals from the audiovisual sector, digital artists and creative teams from anywhere in the world. Works may be submitted in three categories: micro-short film, short film and spec ads, a category focused on advertising campaigns developed through experimentation and innovation.

To take part in the festival, works must demonstrate the use of generative artificial intelligence in at least two stages of the creative process, whether in the script, image or video generation, voices or musical composition.

Entries will remain open until 25 September.

The AI Awards will culminate on 12 November with a gala to be held in Barcelona and available to watch free of charge via global streaming. With the support of organisations such as Movistar, Agencia EFE, Magnific and HeyGen, the festival aspires to become an essential meeting point for those exploring the limits of audiovisual storytelling in the age of artificial intelligence.

Luis Ángel Mendaña, Director of the AI Awards and filmmaker with Artificial Intelligence:

We are living through the exact moment when everything changes. Artificial intelligence is not arriving in film and audiovisual media — it has already arrived, and it is transforming them from within. This festival is not a prediction of the future: it is the future happening in real time, before your eyes. If you really want to be surprised, if you are looking for genuine inspiration, if you are curious to see how far human creativity can go when it merges with artificial intelligence — this festival is for you. It is not just a screening of short films: it is a milestone. A before and after within film festivals, and one of those afternoons that are not forgotten.

More information and registrations are available on the official website of the competition. And it is easy to follow its updates on Instagram.