AI Short
Under fifteen minutes. The opening statement.
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01/07
The UK's AI Film Awards
Celebrating creativity, innovation and storytelling in AI-driven filmmaking.
- November 2026Date
- Central LondonVenue
- Submissions OpenNow Accepting Entries
Scene IIThe Exhibition
A ceremony staged as an exhibition — honouring the vision of a generation that taught machines to see.
OPUS gathers the storytellers, directors and technologists building cinema's next century. Short films, features, music videos, experimental work — all in conversation, all under one roof.
The evening is built as a sequence of rooms. Each room a discipline. Each discipline a discovery.
InterludeVisual Index
AI Filmmaking + Innovation + Creativity + Storytelling + The Future
Scene IIIThe Gallery
Eleven rooms.
One canon.
AI Feature
Long-form cinema authored with intelligence.
AI Music Video
Image scored to sound, frame by frame.
Best Use of AI
Craft over spectacle. Technique made visible.
Experimental
Form without precedent. Studies in possibility.
AI Animation
Worlds built from nothing but instruction.
AI Documentary
Truth retold through synthetic frames.
AI Commercial
Brand language meets generative cinema.
Direction
The hand behind the prompt.
Visual Innovation
Aesthetic invention as its own argument.
Emerging Voice
First works. Future canon.
Scroll horizontally · 11 categories
Scene IVThe Curators
Selected by hand.
Defended by name.
- IJury ChairChair
- IIDirectorMember
- IIIProducerMember
- IVCinematographerMember
- VCriticMember
- VITechnologistMember
Scene VThe Partners
Patronage
by invitation.
A small circle of partners stand behind OPUS — studios, foundations and individuals committed to the future of moving image. Names are announced ahead of the ceremony.
Enquiries · partners@opusawards.co.uk
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London.
14 · XI · MMXXVIA ceremony beneath the Thames skyUnited Kingdom
The Journal
All dispatches Dispatches from the season.
02 May 2026 · Lede
Introducing the Official OPUS Jury
The first edition's panel is unveiled — directors, technologists and critics asked to define a vocabulary for cinema's newest medium.
18 Apr 2026
A Partnership With the Tools Shaping Cinema's Future
10 Apr 2026