2025 AI Filmmaking Hackathon

10:00am-7pm April 5, 2025 at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, 1300 Q Street, Lincoln, NE.

Cinema 16, the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, and the UNL Grand Challenges Creative Data Visualization team are excited to co-host a one-day intensive AI filmmaking hackathon at the beginning of April. Creatives will offer up speculative visions of the future of data and generative media in the age of AI. The day will culminate with a dinner, guest speakers, and a film screening with awards.

No experience is necessary! Everyone is welcome: undergraduates, graduates, staff, and faculty across the university campus, from Emerging Media Arts to Computer Science, to English and Agriculture—including the greater Lincoln community. We will host several workshops leading up to the main event focused on sharing tools and techniques.

Sign up here to participate on April 5th ––> Registration Form

https://go.unl.edu/register-ai-filmmaking-2025

Curious about the Tools and Techniques of working with machine learning and storytelling?

THREE workshops, open to all, including the Lincoln community will be offered to introduce you to the things you need to know.

WORKSHOP #1: Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 5:00 - 7:00PM at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts | Room 209

WORKSHOP #2: Wednesday, March 26, 2025 | 5:00 - 7:00PM at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts | Room 209

WORKSHOP #3: Wednesday, April 2, 2025 | 5:00 - 7:00PM at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts | Room 209

ALL ARE WELCOME.

Past Hackathons

Second Annual AI and Filmmaking Hackathon (2024)

View the 2024 Second Annual Hackathon Submissions here (coming soon)

Inaugural AI and Filmmaking Hackathon (2023)

The Nebraska Technology and Governance Center, Cinema 16, and Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey and NovySan from the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts organized and co-hosted a one-day intensive AI film-making Hackathon in April 2023 where creatives offered up speculative visions of the future and emergent system designs to offer us clues and strategies of ways that we can shape an interspecies future. The day culminated with a dinner, guest speakers, and a film screening with awards.

View the 2023 Inaugural Hackathon Submissions here