The 48-hour London hack brought filmmakers and AI builders together across two tracks, followed by an independent screening hosted at Cinéum Cannes during festival week. This page preserves the completed programme and its results.
A cinematic hackathon — the Builder Hack and the Filmmaker Hack running side by side. Builders and filmmakers are welcome on either track. Pair up across disciplines or run solo — the strongest teams mix both. The fastest tools meet the best storytellers; that's where the breakout work comes from.
Ship something cinematic with the newest creative AI — image, video, audio, agentic tools. Engineers bring the stack; filmmakers bring story instinct on what the industry actually needs. Ships: a tool, technique, or approach the industry can use.
Develop, storyboard, shoot and cut a short film in a weekend. One theme, revealed live. Filmmakers bring craft; builders bring tooling that pushes what's possible on screen. Mentor surgeries throughout. Ships: one short film.
+ Mixed-discipline teams encouraged on both tracks — pair builder with filmmaker, win bigger.
Across London & Cannes — not a booth, not a logo on a banner. The audience every creative-tool company wants, building live, on deadline.
The Big Screen Hack: Cannes is the flagship event of the 2026 programme. London hackathon Fri 8 → Sun 10 May, then the Cannes finale: the Big Screen Hack × RecDek House Villa Party (Sun 17 May) and the Cinéum festival screening (Mon 18 May).
Sponsor tools and compute credits are available through the weekend. Teams who want to learn specific tools beforehand are invited to the meet-ups in the weeks prior. Come solo — we'll help match you on arrival. Online entries welcome from anywhere in the world.
The Cinéum screening is complete. Watch the films, explore the winners and see the public voting journey that followed the event.