How the entry rules are read

Each festival's rules were read on one day, on the organiser's own site: its rules page, FAQ or official rules document. Each of eight items is filed under one reading and kept with the words that state it. Submission platforms and news coverage are not used as sources. As of 2026-09-25.

Fig. 1 Each rule on the register keeps its words and the day it was read.

1Which festivals are listed

A festival, competition or award is listed when it takes films made with AI and publishes its own rules in English. Two established events, the Sundance Film Festival and the Academy Awards, are listed because their rules say how AI is treated, though neither is an AI festival. Festivals whose only rules sit on a submission platform, or only in another language, are left out.

2Money

Entry fees are recorded as a pattern, free, free for some, or rising by deadline, but not as amounts, which change with each deadline and currency. Prize figures are recorded as the rules state them.

3Deadlines and editions

Each festival is read for its latest edition. A deadline is marked open or closed as of the reading day. Where a festival has announced a new edition without rules, the last published rules are read and the page says so.

4Not legal advice

The readings describe what the rules say, briefly and in plain words. Rights terms in particular are summarised; the full wording in the organiser's document governs.

5Readings in use

Every reading given, by rule, with how many festivals carry it.
Rule	Reading	Festivals
What the rules ask of AI	Generative video required	1
What the rules ask of AI	Any AI use counts	6
What the rules ask of AI	AI used in a significant way	3
What the rules ask of AI	A set minimum of AI use	4
What the rules ask of AI	Made on one platform	4
What the rules ask of AI	A wholly AI-made track	1
What the rules ask of AI	Human authorship rules	3
What the rules ask of AI	AI allowed without limits	1
What the rules ask of AI	AI used through the whole production	1
Saying which tools were used	Explain how AI was used	2
Saying which tools were used	A production file	1
Saying which tools were used	List the tools used	7
Saying which tools were used	Generations kept for checking	1
Saying which tools were used	Disclose any AI use	1
Saying which tools were used	Details on request	1
Running time allowed	A minimum and a maximum	9
Running time allowed	A maximum only	4
Running time allowed	A minimum only	2
Running time allowed	Set per category	2
Cost of entry	Free to enter	6
Cost of entry	Fees by deadline	3
Cost of entry	Free for some entrants	2
Latest deadline	Open on the reading day	6
Latest deadline	Closed on the reading day	15
Latest deadline	Monthly deadlines	1
Latest deadline	Opening after the reading day	1
Where winners are shown	Screenings in several cities	2
Where winners are shown	A premiere event	2
Where winners are shown	An awards ceremony	4
Where winners are shown	A festival run	9
Where winners are shown	Finalists at a summit	1
Where winners are shown	Winners announced online	2
Where winners are shown	Monthly screenings	1
What the entrant keeps or grants	Entrant warrants all rights	6
What the entrant keeps or grants	Entrant keeps copyright	5
What the entrant keeps or grants	Rights cleared, consent documented	1
What the entrant keeps or grants	Advice on original material	1
What the entrant keeps or grants	A licence granted to the organiser	1
Prizes	Cash prizes stated	10
Prizes	Trophies and a path to Cannes	1
Prizes	An invitation and a speaker pass	1
Prizes	Awards without cash figures	8

Inclusion rule. Readings that at least one festival carries. Order. Rules in register order.

The whole register is on the data page.

6What a generator hands an entrant

For an entrant reading “How rules are read”, this is what SceneMixer publishes about the film its pipeline hands over:

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)

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)

How the register is kept. The tables, counts and rankings on this site are computed by script from the register, and every figure links to the page it was read from, with the words quoted. No maker pays to be listed or to change a place, and each ranking states its rule, written before the places were computed. Entries are not edited at a maker's request: a figure that is out of date is fixed on the maker's own page and picked up when the pages are next read, at least every three months.