The rules of the Chroma Awards on whether entry costs anything: no purchase or payment needed to enter. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS COMPETITION.
Astana AI Film Festival, Higgsfield Global Film Festival, Reply AI Film Festival, Runway AI Festival and Runway Gen:48 have this reading, “free to enter”: 6 festivals in all.
It reflects the rules published for the latest edition on the reading day.
Where a festival charges, the cost usually rises from the early deadline to the late one. Where its own site says nothing, the fee is often shown only at the submission step, on the platform that takes entries.
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