Big Screen Hack London

​Big Screen Hack

​48 hours. Two tracks. One route to Cannes.

​Filmmakers know how to move an audience. AI builders know how to move the frontier. For one weekend in May, we’re putting both in the same room to build the future. In person catered event plus online entry

​Big Screen Hack brings together filmmakers, AI artists, engineers and designers to create the next generation of films — and build the tools the film industry will use to make them.

​The film track is for teams making bold, AI-native shorts.

​The product track is for teams building the next generation of filmmaking tools.

​Same theme. Same stack. Same mentors. Same 48-hour deadline.

​You’ll get hands-on access to all the latest models like Seedance 2.0, Kling 3.0, Veo 3.1, Hailuo, ElevenLabs and more from our amazing partners MiniMax, IMGN, Popcorn, Runware, Vercel, Panalux, Misfit and more.

Come along and explore our free creative-AI stack — with directors, DPs, editors, producers, lighting experts and engineers on the floor to help you turn raw capability into something worth watching.

​The theme drops Friday at 7pm.
By Sunday night, you’ve shipped.

​Friday 8 May → Sunday 10 May 2026
Central London. Remote teams welcome. Free to enter.
£10,000 prize pool (Increasing Daily) — and finalist work screened during Cannes Film Festival.

​Powered By

​Imgn AI - AI-powered production management and content creation for the entertainment industry, from script to screen in one platform.

​Panalux - Delivering lighting equipment and power generation for hire to commercials, feature films, television series, and more.

​ElevenLabs - The most realistic and versatile AI audio tools for generating expressive speech and sound in over 70 languages.

​Runware - A unified platform for high-speed image, video, and audio generation powered by the proprietary Sonic Inference Engine®.

​Vercel - Build and deploy the best web experiences with the AI Cloud.

​Popcorn.co - The first AI Movie Agent, producing complete short-form videos end-to-end from a single brief.

​MiniMax - A global AI foundation model company powering multimodal products including Hailuo AI video generation, MiniMax Audio, and Talkie.

​RECDEK - Your personal entertainment companion to discover, track, and share films and TV shows across every platform.