1 Billion AI Film Award entry rules
The rules of the 1 Billion AI Film Award cover 5 of the eight items. What the rules ask of AI: Video generated with Google Gemini tools. Running time allowed: 7 to 10 minutes, subtitled in English. Latest deadline: submissions closed December 5, 2025. Not in the rules read: tool disclosure, entry costs and rights terms. From 1 source page, read 2026-09-25; no maker pays to be listed.
Inclusion rule. All 25 festivals on the register, each with what its rules ask about naming AI tools. Order. Alphabetical by festival name.
- AI use
- Made on one platform
- Tool disclosure
- None in the rules read
- Running time
- A minimum and a maximum
- Fee
- None in the rules read
- Deadline
- Closed on the reading day
- Screening
- A premiere event
- Rights
- None in the rules read
- Prizes
- Cash prizes stated
1The rules in brief
The 1 Billion AI Film Award, run by the 1 Billion Followers Summit, a creators' summit held in Dubai, offered a single prize of $1,000,000. Entrants made a 7 to 10 minute film, in any language with English subtitles, whose video was generated with Google Gemini tools. Submissions closed on December 5, 2025; audiences voted from a top twelve, the top five premiered at the summit on January 9, 2026, and the winner was announced the next day. The page read gives no fee, disclosure or rights terms.
2Dates in the rules
| Date | What happens |
|---|---|
| 2025-12-05 | Submission deadline |
| 2026-01-09 | Top five premiere at the summit |
| 2026-01-10 | Winner announced |
Inclusion rule. Dates the rules print in full; months without a day are left to the text above. Order. Earliest first.
What the rules ask of AI: Made on one platform
Films used Google Gemini tools for video generation
1 Billion Followers Summit, AI Film Award page
- Submission criteriaVideo generated with Google Gemini tools
What the rules ask of AI at every festival
Saying which tools were used: None in the rules read
- Rules read; not statedNone in the rules read (2026-09-25)
Saying which tools were used at every festival · What marks the tools leave in the file
Running time allowed: A minimum and a maximum
Entrants created a 7-10 minute AI-generated film (in any language, subtitled in English).
1 Billion Followers Summit, AI Film Award page
- Submission criteria7 to 10 minutes, subtitled in English
1 Billion AI Film Award on this rule · Running time allowed at every festival · How long a clip the tools make
Cost of entry: None in the rules read
- Rules read; not statedNone in the rules read (2026-09-25)
Cost of entry at every festival
Latest deadline: Closed on the reading day
5 DEC 2025 SUBMISSION DEADLINE
1 Billion Followers Summit, AI Film Award page
- How it workedSubmissions closed December 5, 2025
Latest deadline at every festival
Where winners are shown: A premiere event
Top 5 AI films premiered at 1BFS
1 Billion Followers Summit, AI Film Award page
- How it workedThe top five films premiered at the summit on January 9, 2026
Where winners are shown at every festival
What the entrant keeps or grants: None in the rules read
- Rules read; not statedNone in the rules read (2026-09-25)
What the entrant keeps or grants at every festival · What the tools' terms say about owning the output
Prizes: Cash prizes stated
The winner received $1,000,000 USD and global recognition for their work.
1 Billion Followers Summit, AI Film Award page
- Submission criteriaA single $1,000,000 prize
3Producing the entry with AI
For an entrant reading “1 Billion AI Film Award”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:
The longest an episode may run: 240 seconds for Short Drama, 300 for TV Series, none for Film.
SceneMixer, Short Drama, TV Series or Film — “What is the episode cap?” (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)
4Related festivals
- African AI Film Festival next to 1 Billion AI Film Award
- AI Cinema Festival NYC next to 1 Billion AI Film Award
- World AI Film Festival
- World AI Film Festival USA
- Academy Awards
- African AI Film Festival
The organiser's current rules always govern; this is a dated reading, not advice. Method: how rules are read.
5Rules documents read
- 1 Billion Followers Summit, AI Film Award page, read 2026-09-25