Chroma Awards: rights terms
On what the entrant keeps or grants, the rules of the Chroma Awards say this: entrants must hold full rights to grant the licence the rules require. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
You must have the full rights to grant the license and other rights that you grant to ElevenLabs in Section 9 (Intellectual Property) below.
Chroma Awards, official rules on Devpost
- Submission guidelinesEntrants must hold full rights to grant the licence the rules require
1Festivals with the same reading
African AI Film Festival, AI Cinema Festival NYC, AI Shortest Film Competition, Runway AI Festival and Turkey International AI Film Festival have this reading, “Entrant warrants all rights”: 6 festivals in all.
It reflects the rules published for the latest edition on the reading day.
2What the rule means for an entrant
AI raises two rights questions at once: whether the entrant can use every face, voice, song and image in the film, and what the organiser may do with the film afterwards. The licence terms deserve a full read before entering.
| Festival | Reading |
|---|---|
| 1 Billion AI Film Award | None in the rules read |
| Academy Awards | None in the rules read |
| African AI Film Festival | Entrant warrants all rights |
| AI Cinema Festival NYC | Entrant warrants all rights |
| AI Film Festival Japan | Entrant keeps copyright |
| AI for Good Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| AI International Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| AI Shortest Film Competition | Entrant warrants all rights |
| Artefact AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Astana AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Bochnia International AI Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| Chroma Awards | Entrant warrants all rights |
| Cinema Shift Festival | None in the rules read |
| Higgsfield Global Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| Human vs. AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| K-Culture AI International Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| LifeArt AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Project Odyssey | Advice on original material |
| Reply AI Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Runway AI Festival | Entrant warrants all rights |
| Runway Gen:48 | A licence granted to the organiser |
| Sundance Film Festival | None in the rules read |
| Turkey International AI Film Festival | Entrant warrants all rights |
| World AI Film Festival | Entrant keeps copyright |
| World AI Film Festival USA | Rights cleared, consent documented |
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 “Chroma Awards”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:
Every new video carries the SceneMixer AIGC badge in its bottom-right corner unless you turn it off.
SceneMixer, The AI Badge Switch (read 2026-10-13)
SceneMixer generates each character once as a full-body reference sheet — 9:16, plain background, directional key light, identity features written before any technical instruction — and then attaches crops of that sheet to every shot the character appears in.
SceneMixer, AI Character Sheet Generator (read 2026-10-13)