More than 350 of you at the IMAX, seven winners, and now it's your turn to get their work seen.
Big Screen Hack above a packed IMAX audience

What a night.

Big Screen Hack London 2026, the Science Museum IMAX, Friday 16 October.

Hi everyone,

Thank you so much for coming. More than 350 of you filled the Ronson Theatre at the Science Museum IMAX on Friday, and the films this community made went up on one of the biggest screens in London. Seeing your work that size, with that room behind it, is something none of us will forget.

Thank you as well for being so patient with us while we handled a rather difficult venue. We are meeting them today to see what we can do to make up for the few minutes of The Odyssey we missed, and we will be in touch about that.

Some of our filmmakers and winners with their awards under the IMAX sign

Some of our filmmakers and winners under the IMAX sign.

The Greenlight

Not Your Puppet is going to be a series

Not Your Puppet poster

Not Your Puppet by Pablo Fernandez Eyre won The Greenlight, our main award.

Pablo gets up to US$20,000 of StoryMachine credits to develop it into a series, with the aim of monetising it and getting it on television through Fairground.

And this is just the start.

Every challenge had a winner, and a prize

Tap any poster to watch the moment they won.

BRNT ORANGE x BLCK FRIDAY posterThe Big Sell with OpenClips
BRNT ORANGE x BLCK FRIDAY
Philip Nwachukwu
US$1,500 cash prize		 The Worlds of Riley Harper posterIPVISE Best Micro Drama
The Worlds of Riley Harper
Martin Gent
£500 cash prize		 Press Play posterThe Drive-In with RecDek House
Press Play
Winston Mayo
US$500 prize
Hard Times Make posterCall the Shots with StoryMachine
Hard Times Make
Amir Levi-Krone
US$1,000 of StoryMachine credits		 Assisted help for plants posterSmartyPlants challenge
Assisted help for plants
Dominika Korycka
US$500 prize, picked by SmartyPlants		 DUNK - A Proper Dunking posterDunk
DUNK - A Proper Dunking
Christian Luoma
Winner of our own brand challenge

Watch all the winners

Opens today, 9am Monday 19 October

The Public Greenlight: help the world see their work

The judges have made their call, and that result stands. Now it's your turn. We are launching the Public Greenlight today to get the news out there, so these incredible artists get their work seen by as many people as possible.

Every film from London 2026 is in, with a live leaderboard, and it runs for a week until 9am on Monday 26 October. Rally behind the films you love and tell us what you want to see more of. The winner gets a sit-down meeting with three financiers who are looking to fund projects just like theirs.

Vote in the Public Greenlight

Hands in a crowd holding up phones, each showing a different short film

Please share it

The biggest thing you can do today is post about it. Share the winners, share the films you loved, tag the filmmakers and tell your network to vote. Every share helps the world find out about their amazing work.

If you made a film, push it hard. Use your network and your audience, and share your fellow filmmakers' work alongside your own. Collectively we are much stronger. If we all help promote each other, we all win.

Next up: Brighton, 2 and 3 November

Come to FLIRT, where StoryMachine is sponsoring the storytelling stage

FLIRT (Future Leaders in Responsible Technology) is two days of talks, workshops and live demos in Brighton, on how AI and new technology should be built and used. StoryMachine is sponsoring the storytelling stage, and I genuinely think it's going to be one of the best rooms of the year for anyone making work with AI. There are some incredible speakers, including neuroscientist Anil Seth from the University of Sussex, Lord Clement-Jones from the House of Lords, Daniel Bedingfield, Manon Dave from the BBC and Asha Easton from Innovate UK. See the full line-up.

Anyone from this community can get a ticket for £30 instead of £65 with the code StoryMachine. That's two days of conference for just thirty pounds.

We also want to hear from the incredible filmmakers in this community. We still have some speaking slots on the storytelling stage, and we are recording pieces to go online too. If you would like to talk about your process, on stage at FLIRT or in a recorded piece, message me on WhatsApp.

Get your £30 FLIRT ticket
The Big Screen Hack London 2026 launch trailer

Five days. Get seen. Get connected. Get commissioned.

Our launch trailer, made by Mory Jelokhani at Pars Studio, a partner on Big Screen Hack London 2026.

Watch the trailer

Friday night, through your phones

The queue went round the block, the foyer was rammed and the awards came out on the red carpet. These are some of the photos and clips you shared on the night.

The queue for the IMAX The queue outside the Science Museum at night
The IMAX foyer packed with guests and the red carpet
An award winner on the red carpet Celebrating an IPVISE award
A filmmaker with his certificate on the red carpet Three guests with a certificate on the red carpet

Our professional photographer and video team are putting the full set of photos and video together this week. We will share them with you as soon as they are ready.

Were you there? Send us your photos

If you took photos or video on Friday night, we would love to see them. Add them to our shared folder (put your name in the file name) and we will add the best to the Big Screen Hack gallery, credited to you.

Upload your photos

While you wait for the ending

The Missing Seven Minutes, a clay film

We made our own version of the missing minutes, in clay. Watch The Missing Seven Minutes

Stay in touch

I would love to stay in touch with every one of you. Follow Big Screen Hack, share the films and tag us, so we can share you back.

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Thank you again for being part of it. Let's all push.

Aaron, Isy, Ed and Tom
The Big Screen Hack team

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