22 college student teams started 24-hour AIGC short film creation in Hangzhou

 On November 1st, Hangzhou Art Creation Town welcomed a 24-hour AIGC short film creation hackathon.22 young teams from 12 universities will complete the time-limited creation from creative conception to short film production here.

This hackathon is part of the 2026 Hangzhou University Student AIGC Short Film Creation and Recommendation Event, with the theme of “Youth Chasing Light and Shadow·AI Opens a New Chapter”. It is also one of the key activities of the 2026 Hangzhou University Student Film Season.In the early stage, a total of 82 teams and 211 college students from 23 universities signed up. In addition to students from universities in Hangzhou, participants also included students from Hangzhou studying at the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Xiamen University, Suzhou University and other schools.After qualification review and comprehensive review, 22 teams entered the offline stage.

This event is co-sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Communist Party of China Hangzhou Municipal Committee, Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau, Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Youth League and Hangzhou Literary and Art Circles Federation; the co-organizers are Hangzhou Film and Television Artists Association, Xihu District Cultural and Creative Industry Development Center, Xihu District Literary and Art Circles Federation, Xihu District Art Creation Town Development Service Center, Movie Channel Hangzhou Base and Zhejiang Time Coordinate Technology Co., Ltd.

At the launch ceremony, Zhang Han, a second-level researcher of the Literary and Art Department of the Propaganda Department of the Hangzhou Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, Wu Jiajia, director of the Publicity and Warfare Division of the Hangzhou Municipal Education Bureau, and Song Jing, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Xihu District Committee, director of the Xihu District Cultural and Creative Center, and party secretary of the Xihu District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, were present.

After entering into creation, the team can determine themes around urban culture, technological innovation, youth growth, man and nature, traditional culture, etc., and use AIGC technology to complete creative conception, visual design, image generation and post-production.

Before the formal concentrated creation, three special training sessions were arranged for the event, covering director thinking, the relationship between artistic creation and artificial intelligence, and AIGC production practice.

Luo Yuhong, associate professor and master's tutor of the Directing Department of Huace Film School, Zhejiang University of Communication University, gave a lecture titled - AI Film and Television Director Creation and Audiovisual Language Practice.The course starts from creativity and audio-visual language, talks about how to find inspiration from real-life observation, personal experience and science fiction imagination, and organizes human-machine collaboration with directorial thinking.

Yang Shu, deputy secretary-general of the Digital Art Committee of the Chinese Artists Association and director of the Production Department of the Film School of the China Academy of Art, discussed intelligent evolution and artistic creation on the topic of - Intellectual Discipline and Intelligent Evolution, involving the relationship between human creativity, artistic spirit and technological application.Li Chengzhang, a time coordinate AI intelligent production expert and AIGC full-process practical training expert, brought - AIGC full-process film and television creation process and intelligent agent application practice - to introduce visual settings, storyboard design, video generation and post-production based on film and television project experience.

The organizers combine training, teamwork, communication and results display, hoping to allow college students to practice artistic expression, technical operation and collaboration skills in actual production, and also use this event to promote the connection between talent cultivation in universities and the needs of the film and television industry.