"X Hours Later" AI Short Film Hackathon, Pingyao stop
LibTV, co-hosted by Pingyao International Film Festival and the Douyin AI Creation Wave Program; technical support from Volcano Engine Seedance · Pingyao, Shanxi, China
- Entries opened
- Sep 7, 2026
- Event
- Sep 30, 2026
- Prize
- RMB 200,000 Gold Prize; RMB 100,000 Silver; RMB 50,000 Bronze; five craft awards of RMB 30,000 each; total pool not stated
- Official site
- finance.sina.com.cn
Rules that matter
On-site 36-hour team challenge: 40 teams (132 creators) picked from 2,158 applicants made shorts on the set theme 'Before Arrival', from script to final cut. Compute was provided by the organisers.
Good to know
Official event of the 10th Pingyao International Film Festival. Registration opened September 7, 2026; the application deadline was not found. The 36 hours started at noon on September 28 and screenings and awards were on September 30, 2026. Eight films shared nine awards; press reports name only the gold-winning team, not its film title, and no full winners list was found. The eight films were due online during the October National Day holiday. LibTV describes this as the first stop of a long-running series in different cities; no next stop or date is announced. Whether tools other than Seedance were allowed is not stated. No official event page was found, so the url is the main news report. The team name is a transliteration.
Who won
2026 edition
- by Team Ye Ye Ye (野也也) Gold Prize
Sources
Checked Oct 6, 2026. See a date or a result that has changed? Write to [email protected].
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