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, EntertainmentBranched Storytelling & EdutainmentBest GenAI Character/Product/Brand PlacementOne Shot Challenge Awards $20,000 prize pool$2,000 in World Labs API creditsXGRIDS PortalCam (valued at $5,000)SIGGRAPH 2026 ticketsShowcase opportunity at SIGGRAPH ’26GTA 6Playstation 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. See all sessions Hack Advisors & Judges: Alex Coulombe, CEO of Agile LensAvik Sethia, Founding Engineer at ReactorBenny Guo, Chief Scientist of Tripo AIBrittani Poeppel, Product Marketing at World LabsDave Gougé, Strategy & Marketing Consultant / Technology & Entertainment of SquirrelballDavid Gene Oh, Global Developer Advocacy at ByteDanceEssem Harris, Senior Technologist at the National Basketball Association (NBA)Grace Ng, Founder of Playhouse.AIIan Curtis, Design at World LabsJames C. Kane, Director, Emerging TechnologyKeith Zhang, Founder of SoulscapeLovis Odin, Creative / ML Engineer at fal.aiLukasz Mirocha, Founder of Opus Lab 3DMinh Do, Cofounder at Machine Cinema & Fantastic DayOliver Edis, CEO of ReactVisionOliver Huang, Solutions Consultant at XGRIDSRenard T. Jenkins, President & CEO of I2A2 Technologies, Studios & LabsRachel Cooper, AI Strategy & Creative Technology Executive at LionsgateRobert Karimi, ASU Associate Professor exploring immersive performance, games, and AISonya Haskins, Head of Programming at AWETimothy Hagberg, Graphics Engineer - Developer Technology Group at Sony Interactive EntertainmentTodd Terrazas, Co-Founder/Founder of FBRC.ai, and AI on the LotVangelis Lympouridis, Founder of EnosisVerena Puhm, Former Head of Dream Lab LA, Luma AIVíctor Ernesto García Sánchez, Co-Founder of YBVRYanpei Cao, Head of Research of Tripo AIYiqi Zhao, Product Design Lead at Meta Need more inspiration on what to build? We will share some ideas post-sign-up!Questions? hello@sensaihack.comMore information: https://sensaihack.com/worldsinaction-2-la/