Get ready to unleash your creativity in the BEA One-Hour Gen-AI Competition—a fast-paced challenge where student teams have just 60 minutes to produce an original short video using cutting-edge generative AI tools. Open to BEA institutional member schools (limit 25), this competition-within-a-competition celebrates innovation, collaboration, and the rapidly changing landscape of media creation. Whether it’s exploring the latest AI-driven storytelling techniques, experimenting with new visual styles, or finding fresh ways to connect with audiences, participants will work under surprise parameters revealed right before the clock starts ticking. With only two final submissions allowed per school, the race is on for the most imaginative, impactful, and forward-thinking AI-powered storytelling—are you ready to create the future in just one hour?
The BEA One-Hour Gen-AI Competition
A new competition to engage students in the processes and considerations surrounding Generative AI.
What is it?
A one-hour competition during which students will create a short piece of video content using Gen-AI. The parameters of the challenge will be provided at the time of the competition.
Who can participate?
Any institutional member school, with a limit of 25 schools.
Any group of full-time students, either classes or otherwise, but not collegiate media chapters – you’ll have 48-Film in October!
As many full-time students from a school as are interested can do this, but only 2 finished pieces of work from each school can be submitted, so it’s a competition within a competition!
Who signs up and submits the entry?
A faculty member from the school completes the entry form and then submits the two chosen pieces of produced media when the competition is finished.
When does the competition take place?
Between October 27 and November 7. It can be done during a class, as a co-curricular or extra-curricular activity, or on a weekend when you’re having fun! The faculty member will receive the parameters of the assignment the day before the competition starts. The faculty member will have to submit their media by November 14.
Why are you so excited about this?
Because of the endless possibilities! This is the first BEA competition that is intentionally designed to allow faculty to use it in class, incorporating topics that are relevant to their individual curriculum. How to use the tools is a thing, and ethical considerations are a hot topic, but there are many complex aspects of Gen-AI…everything from who owns the work (sometimes it’s the tool!), to how free and paid versions differ, to what’s private and what feeds the AI learning model…and you can explore any or all of them!
When can we sign up?
Sign up begins on Sept. 1. Sign up as soon as possible because once we hit 25 schools, registration will close.