Australian AI Festival celebrates local, Australian & Global AI talent! A physical festival to engage the general public as well as to bring the local & global industry together to collaborate and educate.
Before Australian AI Festival 2025 even begins we'll be showcasing selected submissions leading up to the event.
The Australian AI Festival 2025 will open in Melbourne, Australia on December 22nd 2025 with an awards event in the evening featuring the categories listed on FilmFreeway as the content submitted will become the basis of the content for the festival both online and in person which will be shown till the Australian AI Festival closes at the end of 23rd December 2025.
As always we welcome local, Australian and international entries.

Awards & Prizes

Winners will be announced December 22nd 2025 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia and they will receive a beautiful crystal trophy!
If you're unable to accept your trophy in-person we will send it to you.
The content submitted for the awards will become the basis of the content for the Australian AI Festival.

Award Categories:
Best in AI Animation
Best in AI Art
Best AI Influencer
Best in AI Music
Best AI Social Media Content
Best use of AI in Gaming
Best in AI Short Films

Special awards:
Best in Australia - Best Australian produced project (across all categories)
Best in the World - International produced projects (across all categories)
Rising Stars - The best emerging talent (across all categories)
Special awards will be judged from the submissions in the regular award categories, so your entry may qualify for one or more special awards entries.

Rules & Terms

If the festival is postponed or canceled your submission will be considered for the next edition of the festival. Some of the events are weather dependent. Event details including venues, dates and times are subject to change.
By submitting your work you are granting us permission to use your work on platforms associated with the Australian AI Festival (e.g. Australian AI Festival website, Mobile App, VR app, AR experiences, platforms, applications, social media etc.) as well as Australian AI Festival events. The festival has the right to use the publicity material (press, books, posters, stills etc.) from selected submissions to promote the festival as well edit your work for a variety of reasons (type of audience, reduce run time etc.).
Australian AI Festival is open to content of under 3 hours (although Games can last longer) and all genres and warmly welcomes all accepted creatives to attend. Except for content entered out of competition all content must not have screened before January 2020.
We strongly encourage electronic submission via FilmFreeway however if there is a physical element please email us at hello@AustralianAIFestival.com to discuss.
Judging
Judging of your submission can take place at any time after your submission has been made, so make sure your submission is ready as we may judge it straight away.
Information for creator:
Selected content creators will receive 2 tickets to their content screening. Further tickets for content creators will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis.
Except those out of the competition, all content selected for Australian AI Festival is in the running to be selected as nominees for awards in their appropriate categories as well as others such as Best Local, Australian or Internationally produced AI.
Nominations will be announced before the festival opens 22nd December 2025
More information is available at www.AustralianAIFestival.com if you have any specific queries about entry or terms and conditions, please email us at hello@AustralianAIFestival.com

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  • Clint Sleeper

    Truly nice and thoughtful organizers!

    February 2026
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  • Frank HOUBRE

    A very warm and inspiring festival experience.
    The Australian AI Festival truly celebrates creative experimentation and emerging voices in AI-driven storytelling. Sharing VOIDBORN, an AI-powered animated project, within this context felt genuine and encouraging.

    The team was welcoming, communication was smooth, and there’s a real sense of community around innovation, art, and technology. It’s refreshing to see a festival that embraces AI not just as a tool, but as a creative language.

    Highly recommended to creators exploring new frontiers in cinema and digital art.

    January 2026
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  • Brendan Young

    This was the inaugural edition of the Australian AI Festival, making it one of the few festivals currently in Australia embracing the medium. Although, I think that's rapidly changing. Suffice to say, I had great time and was very pleased to have participated. Festival Director - Matt Kirby has been running festivals dedicated to Virtual Reality Filmmaking and Gaming for a number of years now and it makes sense he would mount a festival focused on the rapidly emerging creativity in AI filmmaking. The festival also included several guest speakers working in various fields of AI production, education and creativity. Highly informative and also a chance to meet and greet creators and network. Looking forward to seeing how this festival develops. The festival included submissions not only from Australia, but from around the world. Communication with the festival was prompt and informative. It's well worth your while to submit. In spite of few technical glitches on the day - the event was excellent.

    December 2025
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  • Michał J. Owerczuk

    Thank you for the final. Have a great new year!

    December 2025
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  • Andre Surya

    my short got selected as a finalist!, such an honor, thank you for the Jury, professional AI festival, highly recommended, nice Live event at Melbourne too! hope another great success for next event

    December 2025
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