Seoul AI Film Festival 2027 · Guide

How to win the Seoul International AI Film Festival.One afternoon in Gangnam. Ten films on screen.

SIAFF takes place on 30 May 2027 at the enTravel Complex in Seoul. Its site publishes no rules page, so this guide keeps what the festival states apart from what its FilmFreeway listing shows. Voidborn, by the ScreenWeaver team, is an award winner here. Then build your short in ScreenWeaver, from page to footage.
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  • Event 30 May 2027, Seoul
  • AI-generated films only
  • Final deadline 30 April 2027
Voidborn · Episode 0

Independent guide. ScreenWeaver does not organise the Seoul International AI Film Festival and is not affiliated with its secretariat. Rules read on 1 October 2026. Official SIAFF site

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Stated and listed

What SIAFF 2027 states, and what it shows elsewhere.

The festival’s own site publishes the event, the programme, the selection process and past winners. It publishes no rules page and no deadlines. Deadlines, fees and categories come from its FilmFreeway listing as summarised by search results on the day of reading. Confirm them with the secretariat before you pay.
Event
30 May 2027, 3 pm to 8 pm
Venue
enTravel Complex Cultural Space, Gangnam, Seoul
Eligible work
AI-generated films from around the globe
Categories (FilmFreeway)
AI Film, AI Music Video, AI Movie Director
Deadlines (FilmFreeway)
30 Nov 2026 to 30 Apr 2027, five rounds
Entry fee (FilmFreeway)
$20, or $15 for Gold Members
Results (FilmFreeway)
5 May 2027
Awards
A trophy or a certificate, no cash listed

Source: seoulaiff.com (event, programme, selection process, past winners) and the festival’s FilmFreeway listing as summarised by search results, read on 1 October 2026. FilmFreeway blocked direct reading. Secretariat: mdkorea@naver.com.

Key dates

Five deadlines, one flat fee.

FilmFreeway lists five deadlines and no price change between them. The official site gives only the date of the ceremony.

  1. 30 Nov 2026

    First deadline

    The first of five FilmFreeway rounds. The listing shows the same $20 fee at every one.

  2. 31 Jan 2027

    Second deadline

    Two more follow, on 28 February and 31 March, before the final one.

  3. 30 Apr 2027

    Final deadline

    The last FilmFreeway date. With a flat fee, the only good reason to wait is a better cut.

  4. 5 May 2027

    Notification

    The date the listing gives. The official site describes the path: Official Selection, Finalist, Nominee, then Award Winner.

  5. 30 May 2027

    Ceremony in Seoul

    Opening at 3 pm, screenings from 3:05 pm, awards and red carpet from 5 pm, then a gala party from 6 pm to 8 pm.

Who decides

A jury committee and a short list of ten.

The official site gives the process, not the names. What it tells you is who gets seen on the day.

  • A Jury Committee

    The site says submitted works are evaluated by a Jury Committee. Its members are not listed. A filmmaker’s page names the jury presidents of the 2025 edition as Sungju Lim and Keonpyo Hong, which is a secondary source.

  • Four stages

    The site describes the path from submission to Official Selection, Finalist, Nominee and Award Winner. Officially selected works are not screened on site. Winners receive a trophy or a certificate.

  • Ten films on screen

    The Jury Committee picks 10 films to screen on awards day, from award winners whose directors attend the ceremony. The screening block runs from 3:05 pm to 5 pm.

Three categories

What the listing offers.

FilmFreeway lists three categories. The official site names none on the page that was read. Each card ends on our suggestion.

  • 01

    AI Film

    The main category, and the one named in the 2025 winner, Best AI Film Gold Prize.

    A finished, genre-led short. Plan for about 11 minutes at most: a 115 minute block for ten films averages that.

  • 02

    AI Music Video

    A category in the listing, with no description on the pages that were read.

    The listing gives no music rights rule. Use a track you own or have licensed, and ask the secretariat.

  • 03

    AI Movie Director

    Listed on FilmFreeway with no description.

    The name suggests an award for a director’s work, but nothing says so. Ask what it judges before you pay.

Past winners

What 2024 to 2026 teach.

The official site lists winners for three editions: WAR::The Last Alliance and a film titled 파리로 가는 홀로그램 in 2024, Transformation by Marcel Barsotti in 2025, and Die in Peace by Nyko Oliver in 2026.

  1. 01

    Transformation won Best AI Film, Gold Prize, in 2025. It is a 12 minute 39 second science fiction short that Barsotti made in 2024. A film finished the year before can win.

  2. 02

    A win is a start. Transformation was first selected by SIAFF in 2025, according to its maker’s page, and then appeared in the AI programme of Short Shorts Film Festival and Asia 2025.

  3. 03

    The list is thin on detail. The 2024 entries are titles only and no prize amounts appear. Judge the festival by its room and its credit, not by a purse.

  4. 04

    It is a small event. One afternoon and evening, one venue, ten films on screen, a trophy or a certificate. The value is the credit and the network, not money.

A winner’s scene

Voidborn: six shots from the ruins.

Voidborn is the ScreenWeaver team’s film that won an award at SIAFF. This scene is from Voidborn, episode 0: the screenplay page, each shot as a storyboard frame, then as the final image. It shows what a tight, genre-led short looks like when the design is fixed before the footage.

Logline. Every seven years, the Rift opens and swallows the world’s dreams. A swordsman sworn to a blind seer escorts her through its levels, toward a promise they made to a girl left behind.

Screenplay · episode 0 · English subtitles

EXT. RUINS OF THE FIRST LEVEL - NIGHT

Broken towers under a violet sky. SIM, a swordsman in a black cloak, walks beside LADY MARIA, blindfolded, all in white.

SIM

Tell me, Maria... do you think Leia believes we are still alive?

MARIA

We made a promise... the two of us.

A line of white automatons rises from the ruins.

AUTOMATON

The Rift will wait for no one.

SIM

What are machines doing at this level?

One automaton steps forward. Its face is blank.

AUTOMATON

We must return to the surface.

Its eyes ignite red.

SIM

I am Sim, guardian of Lady Maria... and I will proceed with your execution.

Steel meets steel. Lightning runs down the blade.

CUT TO:

  1. A swordsman in a black cloak and a blindfolded woman in white walk through ruins at night
    Storyboard frame of the wide shot, in grey
    01

    Wide · the pair

    Wide shot, a bald swordsman in a black cloak and a blindfolded red-haired woman in white walk through night ruins

  2. Medium two-shot of a bald swordsman and a blindfolded red-haired woman
    Storyboard frame of the two-shot, in grey
    02

    Two-shot · the promise

    Medium two-shot, the swordsman and the blindfolded seer side by side, violet night sky, broken towers

  3. Three white humanoid automatons stand in night ruins
    Storyboard frame of the automatons shot, in grey
    03

    Wide · the machines

    Wide low angle, three white humanoid automatons standing in the ruins, cold blue moonlight

  4. Close-up of a white automaton with a smooth blank face
    Storyboard frame of the blank face close-up, in grey
    04

    Close-up · the blank face

    Close-up on an automaton's smooth faceless head, black eye slots, cables at the neck, ruins behind

  5. A white automaton's eyes glow red
    Storyboard frame of the red eyes close-up, in grey
    05

    Close-up · the red eyes

    Same framing, the automaton's eyes ignite red, the swordsman's shoulder out of focus in the foreground

  6. A swordsman strikes with a katana wreathed in lightning and sparks
    Storyboard frame of the clash shot, in grey
    06

    Action · the clash

    Dynamic low angle, the swordsman strikes with his katana, lightning running along the blade, sparks, cape flying

Voidborn, episode 0, 13 minutes, an anime film by the ScreenWeaver team. It also placed twice at the Mondial Chroma Awards. At 13 minutes it sits above the 11 minute average of a screening block, so a tighter cut would fit it better. Press play to start at this scene.

The script

A 7 minute film for a 115 minute block.

Ten films share the screening block, which is about 11 minutes each. A film of 7 minutes is 7 screenplay pages and 70 to 100 shots of 4 to 6 seconds, short enough to leave room for a longer neighbour.

  1. 0:00 to 0:25

    The hook

    A film starts cold in a gala room. Give one striking image and one question.

  2. 0:25 to 1:45

    The hero and the rule

    Who we follow and what the world will not allow.

  3. 1:45 to 4:15

    The escalation

    Each scene costs the hero more. Cut every shot that only shows a tool.

  4. 4:15 to 6:15

    The clash

    The sequence the film promised. Spend your shots and your sound design here.

  5. 6:15 to 7:00

    The afterimage

    One last image that stays on screen, then the credits.

The screening is in Seoul and the site states no subtitle rule. Burn English subtitles into a copy and keep a clean master.

Month by month

Seven months to the final deadline.

If you aim at 30 April 2027, you have seven months. The fee is flat, so plan for quality, and decide early whether you can travel: only films whose directors attend are screened.
  1. 01

    October

    Choose a category and a length

    AI Film is the safest choice, and the secretariat can explain the other two. Fix the length at about 7 minutes.

  2. 02

    November

    Screenplay and storyboard

    Write seven pages free in ScreenWeaver. Generate the storyboard from the screenplay and adjust each shot.

  3. 03

    December to February

    Generate the footage

    Footage scene by scene with Seedance, led by the storyboard and the references. Put your best shots in the first minute.

  4. 04

    March

    Cut, mix and subtitle

    A film played in a cultural complex needs clean sound. Mix it, add English subtitles in a copy and export a master.

  5. 05

    By 30 April

    Submit on FilmFreeway

    Pay the flat fee, $20 or $15 for Gold Members according to the listing. Write to mdkorea@naver.com if anything in the listing is unclear.

  6. 06

    5 to 30 May

    Plan the trip

    Notification is listed for 5 May and the ceremony is on 30 May. The site says nothing about travel costs, so budget the trip yourself.

Ways to lose a place

Seven traps in a thin rulebook.

The site says little, which is a risk in itself. Ask, and keep the answer.

  • A film that is not AI-generated

    The site says the festival honours AI-generated films from around the globe. A film shot with cameras and lightly retouched is not what it describes.

  • No plan to attend

    On-site screenings come from award winners whose directors attend. Trophies go to attendees, and others can ask for a PDF certificate.

  • Expecting a screening for an Official Selection

    The site says officially selected works are not screened on site. A screening comes with a win, and with attending.

  • Expecting cash

    The site lists a trophy or a certificate. No prize money appears on the pages that were read.

  • Trusting numbers that move

    The awards announcement calls the festival the 5th SIAFF while the 2027 page calls it the 6th, and a 2025 page places that edition in another venue. Confirm dates and place with the secretariat.

  • A festival with a similar name

    FilmFreeway lists other Seoul AI film events, such as the Seoul Global AI Film Festa. Check that you are on the Seoul International AI Film Festival page.

  • Mistaking the ticket for the fee

    The official page lists a $40 entrance fee beside the programme, which reads as the price of attending. The FilmFreeway fee for submitting is $20.

Why ScreenWeaver

Seoul rewarded one of ours. Start with the page.

Voidborn, made by the ScreenWeaver team, is an award winner at this festival. The writing and storyboard stages of that way of working are open to you today.

  • A film that already won here

    Voidborn took an award at the Seoul International AI Film Festival, and 1st Place Silver and 2nd Place Dreamina at the Mondial Chroma Awards. The scene above, the ruins of the first level, comes from its episode 0.

  • Short, tight, genre-led

    Ten films share the block. ScreenWeaver plans by scene, so a 7 minute film keeps one look from the first shot to the last.

  • The same faces, shot after shot

    Characters, locations and references are defined once and carry from shot to shot. On a big screen in Gangnam, a changing face is the first thing the room sees.

  • Start free today

    The Screenwriter plan is free and has no expiry. Storyboard Beta is $9.99 a month, and the Filmmaker plan, now rolling out, brings the footage.

Real productions

International festival-recognized films have been written and produced with ScreenWeaver.

ScreenWeaver is already being used as a creative workspace for real AI film productions, from cinematic shorts to animated series pilots selected, nominated, and awarded by international festivals.

  • Video thumbnail for VOIDBORN

    VOIDBORN

    AI animated / cinematic short

    Festival recognition

    • 1st Place Silver

      Mondial Chroma Awards

    • 2nd Place Dreamina

      Mondial Chroma Awards

    • Award Winner

      Seoul International AI Film Festival

  • Video thumbnail for Les Fils du Vinnana

    Les Fils du Vinnana

    AI short film

    Festival recognition

    • Honorable Mention

      Top Quark Film Festival

    • People's Choice Nominee

      Illuminate Oneness of Humanity

    • Nominee

      ALTFF Supershort

  • Video thumbnail for Lost Garden

    Lost Garden

    AI animated series pilot

    Festival recognition

    • Finalist

      AI London Festival

See what creators are building

The pipeline

Write. Board. Produce.

  1. ScreenWeaver screenplay editor: acts, sequences and beats above the formatted script of The Yellow Umbrella

    01The screenplay, enriched

    An industry-standard screenplay editor, and more: a visual outline and beat editor, your writing inspirations (notes, photos, audio) kept next to the page, and an AI researcher to support your writing, not replace it.

  2. ScreenWeaver storyboard: shot S3 of The Yellow Umbrella with characters, shot settings and the script beside it

    02The storyboard, made easy

    Shot breakdown generated from your screenplay, manual control over every shot (frame, angle, movement, duration), and generative AI previsualization in one click.

  3. ScreenWeaver production canvas: shots S3 and S4 as connected nodes carrying their storyboard panels and prompts

    03AI production, with finesse

    Footage generation pipelines connected to your screenplay and storyboard. Optimized out of the box, fully editable workflow.

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FAQ

Seoul International AI Film Festival, your questions

How do you win the Seoul International AI Film Festival?
The site publishes no criteria. A Jury Committee evaluates the works, which move from Official Selection to Finalist, Nominee and Award Winner, and winners receive a trophy or a certificate. Make a short, finished, AI-generated film, and plan to attend.
When is SIAFF 2027?
On 30 May 2027, from 3 pm to 8 pm, at the enTravel Complex Cultural Space in Gangnam, Seoul. The FilmFreeway listing gives 30 and 31 May.
What are the deadlines?
The official site gives none. The FilmFreeway listing shows 30 November 2026, 31 January, 28 February, 31 March and a final deadline of 30 April 2027, with notification on 5 May 2027.
How much does it cost?
FilmFreeway lists $20, or $15 for Gold Members, at every deadline. The official page also lists a $40 entrance fee for the event itself.
Does the film have to be AI-generated?
Yes. The festival presents itself as honouring AI-generated films from around the globe. The pages do not say how much AI a film must hold, so ask the secretariat if your film mixes techniques.
Do I have to travel to Seoul?
Not to be considered. But the on-site screening is chosen from award winners whose directors attend, and winners who stay home can ask for a certificate as a PDF.
Did a ScreenWeaver film win there?
Yes. Voidborn, made by the ScreenWeaver team, won an award at the Seoul International AI Film Festival, and placed twice at the Mondial Chroma Awards.

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