Film Club · Prompt Challenge
Film Club picks a theme. People make short films from it, and the entries play together on the big screen at a Film Club meetup.
The format
Each round starts with one theme. Past themes include toilet paper ads, zombies, ASMR, Appetite, Space Opera and Neon Gods.
Use whatever tools you like. The current invite asks for an MP4 of 60 seconds or less.
The entries play on the big screen at a Film Club meetup. Then we ask the people who made them how they pulled it off.
When a round is open, the current Film Club event listing and the Film Club WhatsApp have the theme, the deadline and where to send your film. Ask for the WhatsApp invite at a meetup.
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Oldest first. Each screening recording covers the whole screening, so it runs longer than a minute. Briefs are as our recordings and recaps describe them, since we haven’t published each prompt’s exact wording. Anything we can’t confirm yet says so.
The first challenge. Make a short toilet paper commercial with generative video tools.
Source: August Film Club recap
Mayumi Rollings: Is AI Film Still Art? 44:55
Mayumi Rollings describes the first challenge and how different each entry turned out.
Watch from 4:20 on YouTubeWe haven’t published a recording of this round’s screening.
Suzy Easton: I’ve Always Been an Architect 8:55
Suzy Easton on why she built her own platform while making her ASMR entry.
Take Appetite wherever you want.
Mayumi Rollings at Vancouver AI, March 2026 14:54
Mayumi Rollings shows community submissions, introduces the Appetite challenge, and tells the story of an entrant who built her own tool to finish.
We haven’t published a recording of this round’s screening.
We haven’t published a recording of this round’s screening.
The brief was deliberately loose.
Source: August Film Club recap
We haven’t published a recording of this round’s screening.
Still missing
Some rounds aren’t here yet, and some films that screened have never been published. Those films wait until the person who made each one says yes.
Made a film for a past round? Tell us at a meetup or through the contact page.