Bronze Partners

AI Film Festival Japan 2026

In cooperation with

AI Film Festival Japan 2026 and this award list each other on our sites.

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Bronze Partners

TapNow

Bronze Partner

TapNow builds AI tools for visual creation, and tells creators across Asia about this award.

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Bronze Partners

AI動画最前線（飛鳥出版）

Bronze Partner

Asuka Shuppan's mook "AI Film Frontline" gathers how people are actually making video with AI right now. The magazine's channels carried this award's second call for entries.

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Technology & Media Partners

ElevenLabs Grants

Technology partner

ElevenLabs Grants supports AICU API, on which this award runs.

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Technology & Media Partners

Windows Forest

Media partner

Windows Forest tells its readers in Japan about this award, as a media partner.

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Technology & Media Partners

OpenAI

Technology partner

OpenAI supports AICU API, on which this award runs.

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Supporting Organisations

Reciprocal PartnerApplied — awaiting approval

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Supporting Organisations

AI FUSION FES

Reciprocal Partner

AI FUSION FES is an exhibition of works made with AI. Its second edition, VOL.02, takes the theme NEO JAPONISM and opens on 12 December 2026 at VIZEL Shibuya, Tokyo. We introduce each other's programmes.

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Supporting Organisations

Innovation Design Studio INDEST, Institute of Science Tokyo

In cooperation with

In cooperation with Innovation Design Studio INDEST, Institute of Science Tokyo.

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Supporting Organisations

Chroma Awards

Reciprocal Partner

Chroma Awards began in 2023 as Project Odyssey and is incubated by ElevenLabs. It is an international competition for AI film and media across six categories — film, advertising, music video, song, game and behind-the-scenes — and has drawn more than 6,500 entries from over 5,500 participants. Season 2 opens in mid-October 2026. Matty Shimura, Head of Chroma Awards, serves on the Jury of this award.

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Supporting Organisations

Laval Virtual

Reciprocal Partner

Laval Virtual has run France's international XR conference and expo in Laval since 1999. Its art programme Recto VRso — curated by the artist-researcher Judith Guez and organised by Laval Virtual — brings together a dozen international artists each year to push the edges of virtual and mixed reality. The 9th edition runs 19–22 November 2026 at Le Quarante, free to enter, on the theme "(Re)making connection: poetics of the crossing between the real and the virtual". Generative AI is named among the accepted media. Recto VRso is relaying this award's call for entries to its creators.

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Supporting Organisations

Digital Hollywood University

Supported by

Supported by Digital Hollywood University.

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Supporting Organisations

Digital Content Association of Japan (DCAJ)

Supported by

Supported by the Digital Content Association of Japan. The ceremony takes place during DCEXPO, on the INTER BEE IGNITION stage.

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