Calendar: deadlines and screenings in date order

Every deadline, screening and ceremony date the rules print in full, in order. On the reading day, African AI Film Festival, AI Cinema Festival NYC, AI for Good Film Festival, Artefact AI Film Festival, Turkey International AI Film Festival and World AI Film Festival USA still took entries; the other deadlines had passed. As of 2026-09-25.

Inclusion rule. Dates after the reading day that the rules print with a day, month and year. Order. Earliest first.

1Reading the calendar

A festival's own deadline is the only one that counts, and several run a sequence of them, early, regular and late, with the cost of entry rising at each step. Where rules give only a month, such as a festival in late March or a ceremony in February, the date stays on the festival's page and out of this list.

Screening dates matter for more than a trip. Some festivals ask for a premiere, and a film that has already screened elsewhere may lose its place; check premiere rules before entering the same film in two festivals whose dates overlap.

2Dates already past

Inclusion rule. Printed dates on or before the reading day. Order. Latest first.

Past dates stay here because annual festivals tend to repeat them. A deadline in late April or a ceremony in mid-June this year is a fair first guess for next year, until the organiser publishes new rules.

3What a generator hands an entrant

For an entrant reading “Calendar”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:

16:9 landscape (SceneMixer's default) and 9:16 vertical (the usual short-drama frame), chosen per project.

SceneMixer, Seedance 2.0 in a Real Short-Drama Pipeline — “Which aspect ratios does the pipeline generate?” (read 2026-10-13)

The longest an episode may run: 240 seconds for Short Drama, 300 for TV Series, none for Film.

SceneMixer, Short Drama, TV Series or Film — “What is the episode cap?” (read 2026-10-13)