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Want to rub elbows with the movers and shakers? This is the place to be. The Awards Show and After Party are where all the big decision-makers and game-changers gather. If you want to be in the know and connect with the people who truly matter, don't miss it!

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2025 Finalists

NARRATIVE

Santiago Hernandez for La Serrana
Jesse Torres for The Philadelphia Project
Nik Kleverov for Memory Maker
Rafael Beck for Midnight Station
Jeff Synthesized for Newton's Cradle
Dale Williams for Alex
Henry Daubrez for Kitsune
Abel Art for The Dinner
James Cipriano for 66 Million Years Ago
David Mann for The Burger King

TRAILER

Sergio Valdez for The Dweller in the Land of Rubber
Mohammed Malik for Alter Ego
Ben Deka for The Bakunawai
Stephen Robinson for Moonblood
Kavan Cardoza for Those Who Remain
Mehdi Saqi for Nalvora
Simon von Elgg for Soap Queen

EXPERIMENTAL

Damian Velasco for Plastik
Caleb Weintraub for Good Eggs
Matthieu Grambert for To Wonderland
JS Bernard for As the World Turns to Flowers
Bruno Lasevicius for Rimbs on Blues
Laen Sanches for Hush Now
Francesco Foletto for Where Are You?
Alena Brazhnikova for Hunger
Wenjie Lee and Zhengyang Yin for Wild Horses
Joe Ata for Are We Becoming Robots?
Charles Dillon Ward for My First Kidney Stone
Diego Maclean for Remembering

MUSIC VIDEO

Giovanni Abitante for Caos
Yevgeniy Buryakov for The Dark Matter
Diane Laidlaw AKA Afro Futcha for Give It To Me
Brian Fallon for Promptless
Francesca Fini for Jade on Mars
Daniil Volkau for VHS Killer
Bruno Bock for Mrs. Pride
Goulwen Courtaux for Hold On
Marco Cavazzana for il Pagliaccio
Hualta for Nueva Piel

DOCUMENTARY

Giovanni Abitante for Diane Arbus: Revealing the Unseen
Endre Lengyel for Endling
Mind Wank, Bengt Tibert and Nathan Boey for Knights Without Armor
Matt Zien for The First Humans
Abraham Dawod for Begin Again
Taegyu Seo for Voices
Patrick Song for Mankind
Ariel Kotzer for Parallax
Stephane Benini for Fracture
Umut Kaner for Wind of the Universe
Charles Ancery and Thomas Desliens for Screen Out
Joshua Van Horn for In Memoriam: JFK

Hear from our participants

The Austin AI Film Festival is more than a festival; it's a gathering of a passionate community pushing the boundaries of AI-driven cinema, fostering collaboration, and ensuring that technology serves creativity, not the other way around.

Amaru Zeas-Siguenza
Amaru Zeas-Siguenza

Creative Director @ Griptape AI

The opportunity to share the stage with such incredible talent and visionary artists is a tremendous honor. In just its first year, this festival has already established itself as a premier event in the AI filmmaking space, setting a high standard for the future.

Kavan Cardoza
Kavan Cardoza

Co-Founder & AI Director @ Phantom X

Working with the Austin AI Film Festival, we share a vision of empowering creatives. They have done a remarkable job growing the environment. Looking forward to continuing the relationship. Proud to support the work.

PJ Way
PJ Way

Founder @ Arizona AI FF and AI Film 3

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