AI Shortest Film Competition: AI-use rules

The rules of the AI Shortest Film Competition on what the rules ask of AI use: the clip must be created with LTX; editing allowed via XML export. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.

Created with LTX – Up to 60 seconds long – Post-production/editing is allowed via XML export

Forward Festival, AI Shortest Film Competition by LTX

• Requirements
  The clip must be created with LTX; editing allowed via XML exportForward Festival, AI Shortest Film Competition by LTX / recorded 2026-09-25

1Festivals with the same reading

1 Billion AI Film Award, Higgsfield Global Film Festival and Runway Gen:48 have this reading, “made on one platform”: 4 festivals in all.

Rules change between editions; check the organiser's page before entering.

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.

3Producing the entry with AI

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

A serialized vertical-video show (typically 60–120 seconds per episode, 9:16) where the cast, scenes, and footage are AI-generated.

SceneMixer, The AI Micro Drama Production Pipeline — “What is an AI micro drama?” (read 2026-10-13)

Typically 60–120 seconds, always 9:16 vertical, ending on a hook. SceneMixer's episode outlines are generated with that pacing, and setting a project to 9:16 makes every segment vertical (the default is 16:9).

SceneMixer, How to Make ReelShort-Style Dramas with AI — “How long is a ReelShort-style episode?” (read 2026-10-13)

4More on this rule

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