The Pixio AI Film Festival brought creators together for a full week of AI filmmaking education, daily X Spaces, and live workshops with professional AI artists.
Hosted with TSI and presented by AI Mastery, the festival focused on practical AI video creation across four core categories: Music Videos, Commercial Ads, Documentary & Educational Content, and Cinematic Film. Each day paired a broader conversation about the future of AI filmmaking with hands-on workflow training for planning, prompting, generating, editing, and presenting AI-native videos.
Creators explored how to move from concept to final output using Pixio's Media Creative Suite for image, video, music, speech, and 3D generation. The event also introduced the Pixio Showcase as the home for standout AI videos and contestant submissions.
What the Festival Covered
Across the week, creators joined daily conversations and workshops about:
- the future of AI filmmaking;
- hands-on video workflows led by professional AI artists;
- storytelling, prompting, music, narration, and post-production;
- building with Pixio's image, video, music, speech, and 3D tools;
- creating and submitting work for the festival categories;
- and the final community showcase of standout films and creators.
The featured models and tools included Seedance 2 Pro, LTX 2.3, Runway, ElevenLabs, Nano Banana 2, Google Veo 3.1, Grok Imagine, Kling v3, OpenAI Sora 2, Pixverse v6, and more.
Prizes and Festival Rewards
The festival prizes were:
- 1st place: 50,000 Pixio Credits
- 2nd place: 25,000 Pixio Credits
- 3rd place: 10,000 Pixio Credits
- Bonus: 1 month of Maker Mode free
During the festival week, participants also had access to community rewards including a new-subscriber discount, double credits for the week, and free credits for joining a workshop or X Space.
Festival Recordings and Livestreams
Day 1: Kickoff
The opening session introduced the full week of AI video creation, the daily creative categories, and the live education format. It also covered how organized workflows can help creators build stronger AI films and introduced the Pixio Showcase, where festival submissions and standout videos would be revealed.
Day 2: Exploring the Pixio Tool
This workshop walked through the Pixio Media Creative Suite and showed how creators can access leading models for image, video, music, speech, and 3D generation in one place. The session featured Pixio cofounders Alisher Farhadi and Nick Kukaj with TSI, covering top models, key features, practical workflows, and tips for getting better results from the platform.
Day 3: Music Video
Day 3 focused on AI music videos: realistic vocals, music generation, and how sound and visual storytelling work together. The session covered story planning, lyrics, song generation, and final visuals using tools such as Songcraft, Lyria 3 Pro, Minimax 2.5, and ElevenLabs.
Day 4: Commercial Ad
Day 4 explored how AI can make advertising faster, more affordable, and more accessible for small businesses and creators. The workshop covered the workflow for building AI commercial ads, including product and character consistency with Nano Banana 2 and video generation with models like Seedance 2, Kling 3, LTX 2.3, Veo 3.1, and Grok Imagine.
Day 5: Documentary and Educational Content
Day 5 showed how educators and creators can use AI to build documentaries, educational videos, and docuseries. In collaboration with TSI, the session covered ways to reimagine history, world events, and learning experiences through narration, character consistency, and AI video storytelling.
Day 6: Cinematic Film
Day 6 examined the impact of AI on Hollywood and traditional filmmaking, and how creators can direct their own stories with more freedom, speed, and affordability. The session included a cinematic deep dive with LudovicCreator on storytelling, prompting, attention to detail, and the creative process behind more polished AI films.
Day 7: Final Submissions Deadline and Festival Recap
Day 7 was the final call for contest entries, with submissions due by 6:00 PM. The recap session revisited the week's creative workflows and the four official categories: Music Video, Commercial Advertisement, Education & Documentary, and Filmmaking. It also highlighted new submissions and unseen participant videos ahead of judging.
Day 8: Winners Announcement and Community Showcase
The final day celebrated the work created throughout the festival. The community showcase featured submitted projects, festival highlights, and winner announcements. Judges including Robert Scoble, Sarah N. Dipity, LudovicCreator, and the Pixio team shared their thoughts, favorite entries, and standout creators from each category.
Who It Was For
The Pixio AI Film Festival was designed for AI filmmakers, digital artists, musicians, educators, creative technologists, content creators, and anyone interested in building stronger AI-native media workflows.
Whether you joined live or are catching up now, the recordings are a great way to follow the week of workshops and see how creators used Pixio to move from idea to finished video.
Watch the generated videos in the Pixio Showcase.