China's Golden Rooster Film Festival adds its first-ever Film AI Unit

China's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival is taking place in Xiamen, Fujian. For the first time, this year's festival set up a Film AI Unit to explore how artificial intelligence can be used in filmmaking, giving creators from different backgrounds a place to show and share their work.

The AI Hackathon, a key event of the unit, drew 287 team sign-ups, with 20 teams making the shortlist. They had 72 hours to create films around set themes, using AI tools to finish the whole process from story ideas to finished videos in a short time.

After judging, the film 'No One Knows' by the 'Dengdeng Zhiliao' team won the Top 1 recommendation. Founded in 1992, the festival is a major national film event covering awards, screenings and forums. The new AI Unit gives AI filmmaking a real space to grow.