AI Shortest Film Competition: rights terms
AI Shortest Film Competition, what the entrant keeps or grants: entrants must own or hold rights to everything in the film, and allow the festival to share and screen it. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
Make sure you own or have the rights to everything in your film – including visuals, music, and AI-generated content.
Forward Festival, AI Shortest Film Competition by LTX
- CopyrightEntrants must own or hold rights to everything in the film, and allow the festival to share and screen it
1Festivals with the same reading
African AI Film Festival, AI Cinema Festival NYC, Chroma Awards, 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.
3The making side of an entry
For an entrant reading “AI Shortest Film Competition”, 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)
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)