Absolute Cinema! AI Filmmaking & Storytelling Hack
AI Filmmaking, VFX, Storytelling & Interactive Media Hackathon during SIGGRAPH Week.
What comes after prompting a single AI video?
Join us in Los Angeles during SIGGRAPH Week for a two-day hackathon exploring the future of AI filmmaking, cinema, VFX, 3D, storytelling, and interactive media.
This hack brings together filmmakers, artists, creative technologists, developers, designers, researchers, and AI builders to prototype new production workflows for the next era of cinema — moving beyond one-off AI clips toward reusable, interactive, and scalable creative pipelines.
Whether you’re working with generative video, 3D worlds, Gaussian splats, VFX workflows, game engines, spatial media, or narrative systems, this is the space to build, experiment, collaborate, and demo your ideas live.
Tracks
Filmmaking, Entertainment
Branched Storytelling & Edutainment
Best GenAI Character/Product/Brand Placement
One Shot Challenge
Awards
$20,000 prize pool
$2,000 in World Labs API credits
XGRIDS PortalCam (valued at $5,000)
SIGGRAPH 2026 tickets
Showcase opportunity at SIGGRAPH ’26
GTA 6
Playstation 5
This is for anyone building at the edge of AI cinema, VFX, 3D, storytelling, and interactive media.
Come build the next AI cinema pipeline with us.
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Hack Advisors & Judges:
Alex Coulombe, CEO of Agile Lens
Avik Sethia, Founding Engineer at Reactor
Benny Guo, Chief Scientist of Tripo AI
Brittani Poeppel, Product Marketing at World Labs
Dave Gougé, Strategy & Marketing Consultant / Technology & Entertainment of Squirrelball
David Gene Oh, Global Developer Advocacy at ByteDance
Essem Harris, Senior Technologist at the National Basketball Association (NBA)
Grace Ng, Founder of Playhouse.AI
Ian Curtis, Design at World Labs
James C. Kane, Director, Emerging Technology
Keith Zhang, Founder of Soulscape
Lovis Odin, Creative / ML Engineer at fal.ai
Lukasz Mirocha, Founder of Opus Lab 3D
Minh Do, Cofounder at Machine Cinema & Fantastic Day
Oliver Edis, CEO of ReactVision
Oliver Huang, Solutions Consultant at XGRIDS
Renard T. Jenkins, President & CEO of I2A2 Technologies, Studios & Labs
Rachel Cooper, AI Strategy & Creative Technology Executive at Lionsgate
Robert Karimi, ASU Associate Professor exploring immersive performance, games, and AI
Sonya Haskins, Head of Programming at AWE
Timothy Hagberg, Graphics Engineer - Developer Technology Group at Sony Interactive Entertainment
Todd Terrazas, Co-Founder/Founder of FBRC.ai, and AI on the Lot
Vangelis Lympouridis, Founder of Enosis
Verena Puhm, Former Head of Dream Lab LA, Luma AI
Víctor Ernesto García Sánchez, Co-Founder of YBVR
Yanpei Cao, Head of Research of Tripo AI
Need more inspiration on what to build? We will share some ideas post-sign-up!
Questions? hello@sensaihack.com
More information: https://sensaihack.com/worldsinaction-2-la/