Sources

Where AI film gets seen

FrameZero indexes these surfaces rather than replacing them. Every title is still streamed by its original platform and credited to its creator.

YouTube

Platform26 titles indexed

The default home for AI film. Nearly every short, trailer and series episode lands here first, on creator channels and tool channels alike.

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Vimeo Staff Picks

Curation

Curated, artier end of the spectrum. A Staff Pick still carries real weight with festival programmers.

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Runway AI Film Festival

Festival1 title indexed

The most established AI film festival: thousands of entries, ten finalists, a Lincoln Center screening and a public Screening Room afterwards.

Open Runway AI Film Festival

Runway Gen:48

Festival

48-hour AI filmmaking sprint with category awards — the fastest route from unknown creator to credited AI director.

Open Runway Gen:48

Higgsfield Originals

Curation5 titles indexed

In-house streaming hub for AI-native series and features, including Arena Zero and Hell Grind.

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Curious Refuge

Curation

Training, competitions and an AI Film Gallery. The Wes Anderson Star Wars trailer that started the mainstream wave came from here.

Open Curious Refuge

Project Odyssey

Festival

Large multi-sponsor AI film competition with narrative, animation and music-video categories.

Open Project Odyssey

Kling NextGen Creative Contest

Festival

Kuaishou's global creator contest, with winning shorts screened on big screens in Tokyo and beyond.

Open Kling NextGen Creative Contest

Flow TV

Curation

Google's channel-based showcase of shorts made in Flow with Veo — a feed rather than a festival.

Open Flow TV

World AI Film Festival

Festival

Cannes-market AI film festival, partnered with MiniMax/Hailuo and focused on international entries.

Open World AI Film Festival

Sundance — Adobe Gen AI Showcase

Festival

Sundance 2026's Showtime! Gen AI Showcase put AI-assisted shorts like MythOS and Wink in front of a traditional festival audience.

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Tribeca AI programs

Festival

From the 2024 OpenAI Sora Shorts commissions to 2026 screenings such as Dear Upstairs Neighbors.

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Higgsfield Global Film Festival

Festival

Opened 10 August 2026 with a $1M prize pool ($500K first prize). Films must be made entirely inside Higgsfield and run at least three minutes; judged on directing/storytelling, visual craft, sound and editing, and originality. Deadline 3 September, winners in the first week of October — expect a large wave of ambitious shorts.

Open Higgsfield Global Film Festival

1 Billion AI Film Award

Festival

Large-prize narrative competition. The 2026 winner, LILY by Zoubeir Jlassi, took $1M with a nine-minute story about guilt and redemption — story-first work over tool demonstrations.

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AI Film Creator Showcase

Curator

YouTube channel running recurring Top 10 rankings of AI-generated films. Treated as an external editorial curator: a film it features gains a cross-platform signal, not just a view count.

Open AI Film Creator Showcase

StoryArc Network

Curation

Emerging narrative-first AI storytelling platform: films, series and shorts inside connected universes, with creator profiles, characters, lore and episodes. Watched as an emerging provider rather than a primary source.

Open StoryArc Network