AI Film Festival Japan: AI-use rules

AI Film Festival Japan, what the rules ask of AI use: a festival for works made with generative AI, in narrative, experimental, animation and music-score categories. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

AI Film Festival Japan (AIFJ) is a pioneering film festival dedicated exclusively to cinematic works leveraging Generative AI technology.

AI Film Festival Japan, English site

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  A festival for works made with generative AI, in narrative, experimental, animation and music-score categoriesAI Film Festival Japan, English site / recorded 2026-09-25

1Festivals with the same reading

African AI Film Festival, AI for Good Film Festival, K-Culture AI International Film Festival, LifeArt AI Film Festival and Reply AI Film Festival have this reading, “any AI use counts”: 6 festivals in all.

It reflects the rules published for the latest edition on the reading day.

2What the rule means for an entrant

This is the rule that decides eligibility first. A film finished with conventional footage and a few generated shots fits a festival that asks for any AI use, but not one that asks for AI in every phase of production or for a film made on one platform.

Inclusion rule. Every festival on the register, with or without a detailed page on this rule. Order. Alphabetical by festival name.

3The making side of an entry

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

Every episode is scored for you once its first shot is generated; the music is written for the episode and mixed in under the voices.

SceneMixer, Background Music in an AI Short Drama: The Built-in Score — “Do I need to add music to my episode?” (read 2026-10-13)

SceneMixer turns a novel into a watchable short-drama series in one pipeline: upload the novel (Chinese or English) → AI extracts characters, scenes, and an episode-by-episode structure → generates consistent character and scene art → writes storyboard scripts → renders video segment by segment (16:9 by default, 9:16 in one setting) → composites full episodes.

SceneMixer, Turn a Novel into a Video Series with AI (read 2026-10-13)

4More on this rule

• AI Film Festival Japan, all eight rules
• What the rules ask of AI at every festival
• Academy Awards on AI-use rules
• AI Shortest Film Competition on AI-use rules