(ECNS) — Chinese creative team 2xLabs won the Best Story award for its AI short film The Last Span at the inaugural Astana AI Film Festival, which concluded on Saturday in Astana, Kazakhstan.
The festival received 8,067 submissions from 125 countries and regions, including 479 from China, the fourth-largest number of entries by country. Of those submissions, 4,929 were entered in the Open Competition and 3,138 in the Thematic Competition.
The roughly 17-minute fantasy short draws on elements of traditional Chinese culture and follows a young girl who crosses a river in search of her mother as people on both banks work together to finish building a bridge.
A team of more than 10 people spent about six weeks producing the film, while video generation itself took just over a week. Executive director Wang Yuchen said much of the production time was devoted to refining the script and developing the film’s visual style.
The Last Span received a $50,000 prize for winning the Best Story category in the Open Competition. The award recognizes excellence in storytelling, narrative structure and emotional impact, according to the festival.
(By Helen Mo, intern Yang Hongran)
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