Global AI Filmmaking Hackathon (EAST2046 × TapNow × Bionic Awards)

EAST2046 × TapNow × Bionic Awards Hackathon invites global creators to reimagine AI filmmaking through data-driven and socially engaged cinematic experiments. Registration Link is Here🌟: EAST2046 × TapNow × Bionic Awards Hackathon — Registration – Fill out form As part of London Data Week 2026, this hackathon explores how datasets, platforms, creators and cultural imagination can come together to shape new forms of storytelling. Rather than focusing only on prompt-based content generation, participants will investigate how data can become cinema, how dreams can become moving images, and how public priorities can be transformed into emotional cinematic narratives. Participants will create short 2–5 minute AI-assisted films in either of the two creative tracks: Track 1: The Digital Unconscious Leveraging a database of 44,500+ authentic dream narratives for AI-driven filmmaking. Track 2: Social Impact Storytelling Translating data on the Mayor of London’s strategic priorities into cinematic narratives. Participants will receive specialised datasets, TapNow platform support including tokens, and mentorship from industry experts, including BAFTA-winning filmmaker Martin Percy. This hackathon welcomes filmmakers, artists, designers, developers, researchers, students and creative technologists who are interested in exploring what AI filmmaking can become when it moves beyond prompts and into real cultural, social and institutional contexts. Key Dates 21 June — Introductory Workshop Online 4 July — Launch Day & In-person Workshop at Imperial College London 8 July — LSE Workshop: Turning Data into Films 11 July — Demo Day / Finals at Imperial College London Hosted across Imperial College London and LSE, with both online and in-person participation. Prizes £500 cash prize per track. Top works will have the chance to be showcased by the Bionic Awards, subject to selection. Free to join. Individual and team applications welcome.