# EuGFA

> European Generative Film Association (EuGFA), based in Tallinn and working across Europe. Publisher of The Briefing and organiser of New Frames.

EuGFA is a European home for generative film, audiovisual creation and the artists shaping what comes next. New Frames is its European student AI short film competition. The Briefing is a weekly series of articles on generative film in Europe. Each link below is a markdown version of a public page.

## EuGFA

- [Home](https://eugfa.org/index.md): Mission, focus areas and upcoming events.
- [The Briefing](https://eugfa.org/briefing.md): A weekly briefing on generative film in Europe: what happened, why it matters and what is still open. Every article in the email is published here too.
- [Workshops](https://eugfa.org/workshops.md): Live workshops on generative short-film craft — story, process and authorship, not feed content.
- [Discourse](https://eugfa.org/discourse.md): Public essays, guides and research that treat generative film as art and practice — selected and annotated by EuGFA. We do not publish original longform yet; the curation is the contribution.
- [Epitaph of the author](https://eugfa.org/discourse/epitaph-of-the-author.md): A clear walk through authorship and copyright questions when generative tools enter film. Useful when you need language beyond “the AI made it.”
- [Ethical Canvas of Generative AI in Art](https://eugfa.org/discourse/ethical-canvas-generative-ai-art.md): Practical ethical checkpoints — transparency, bias, human oversight — written from a European AI film festival context rather than a product blog.
- [Implications of generative AI in cinematic narrative and aesthetics](https://eugfa.org/discourse/analisi-genai-narrative-aesthetics.md): Open study of OpenDocs and +RAIN submissions: how makers actually use GenAI in shorts, and what ethical and aesthetic patterns show up in the field.
- [¿Una ética para la IA? Mesa redonda — +RAIN 2023](https://eugfa.org/discourse/comparative-cinema-rain-ethics-2023.md): Entry point to a festival roundtable on ethics and authorship in generative audiovisual creation — European research culture meeting festival practice.
- [Artificial Aesthetics: Generative AI, Art and Visual Media](https://eugfa.org/discourse/manovich-artificial-aesthetics.md): Free book-length inquiry into generative media, aesthetics and authorship. Dense, but the right depth when the field needs more than tool tips.
- [Responsible Practices for Synthetic Media](https://eugfa.org/discourse/pai-synthetic-media.md): Consent, disclosure and transparency framed for makers and platforms. Strong reference when building process notes or festival disclosure language.
- [AI Disclosure Taxonomy (Human Provenance in Film)](https://eugfa.org/discourse/human-provenance-film.md): An open, film-specific way to declare AI use in finished works. Directly useful for EuGFA’s emphasis on process documentation over opaque clips.
- [Guidance on the use of AI in BFI funding applications](https://eugfa.org/discourse/bfi-ai-funding-guidance.md): How a major European film fund expects transparency and lawful rights practice around assistive and generative AI — concrete institutional norms.
- [Guidelines on transparency obligations for AI-generated content](https://eugfa.org/discourse/eu-ai-act-transparency-guidelines.md): Official framing of Article 50 transparency rules, including how artistic and fictional deepfake-like works are treated. Essential European policy context for makers.
- [CNC deliberation on authors and aid](https://eugfa.org/discourse/cnc-author-requirement.md): France’s film fund withholds development and production aid for a film, audiovisual work or game unless an author wrote the script and bible. A fund-level authorship rule, in the Journal officiel of 31 October 2026.
- [AI transparency guidelines for deepfakes](https://eugfa.org/discourse/mediacampus-ai-transparency.md): NPO, DPG Media, Mediahuis and Talpa set a minimum standard, in Dutch, for when a deepfake needs the EU AI logo and where it sits in news, reality, films and series.
- [Study on Opportunities and Challenges of AI for Cultural and Creative Sectors](https://eugfa.org/discourse/eu-ai-ccs-study.md): Sector-wide EU study covering film among other creative fields — opportunities, skills and structural challenges beyond any single tool.
- [UNESCO on AI policies for the creative sectors](https://eugfa.org/discourse/unesco-ai-creative-sectors.md): Consent, remuneration, transparency and cultural diversity as policy pillars — a global frame that sits beside European regulation.
- [+RAIN Film Festival](https://eugfa.org/discourse/rain-film-festival.md): Europe’s university-led festival for AI-generated cinema — screenings plus research and critical debate. A living institutional reference for the field.
- [Supported models](https://eugfa.org/models.md): Video, image and audio models used in generative filmmaking.
- [Subscribe](https://eugfa.org/subscribe.md): Sign up for the weekly briefing.

## New Frames

- [New Frames 2026](https://eugfa.org/newframes.md): European Student AI Short Film Competition. €900 in prizes. Submissions closed. Shortlist 6 November 2026.
- [Competition rules](https://eugfa.org/newframes/rules.md): Eligibility, prizes, rights and submission terms for New Frames 2026.
- [Privacy notice](https://eugfa.org/newframes/privacy.md): How EuGFA handles personal data for New Frames 2026.

## The Briefing

- [AI tools already on sale must mark their output by 2 December](https://eugfa.org/briefing/ai-marking-transition-ends.md): A four-month grace period ends for generative systems placed on the EU market before 2 August 2026.
- [Vienna's NovaScreen festival accepts only images made with generative AI](https://eugfa.org/briefing/novascreen-ai-only-rules.md): Filmed, stock and 3D material are barred from the 9 October 2027 edition, which takes entries until 31 July 2027.
- [Mirelo's SFX 2.0 strips unwanted music from a video and keeps the dialogue](https://eugfa.org/briefing/mirelo-sfx-audio.md): The audio tool takes clips up to 10 minutes, at a third off its credit rate until 12 December 2026.
- [New Frames entries have closed and winners are named on 15 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/new-frames-entries-closed.md): The shortlist goes public on 6 November, public voting runs to 14 November and the jury awards a €500 Grand Prize.
- [EU icons for labelling AI-generated content are free to use](https://eugfa.org/briefing/eu-ai-labelling-icons.md): Three variants, from fully AI-generated to partially AI-modified, come as SVG and PNG files; use is optional.
- [Annecy's 2027 pitch call asks projects to justify significant AI use](https://eugfa.org/briefing/annecy-2027-ai-statement.md): Mifa Pitches entries open in November 2026 and run to January 2027, with a statement of intent for AI-shaped work.
- [New Frames shortlist is due on 6 November, with public voting to 14 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/new-frames-voting-opens.md): Entries closed on 30 October; €900 in prizes includes a €100 Viewers' Favourite decided by verified public votes.
- [Erich Pommer Institut runs a €50 online legal update on AI in film and TV](https://eugfa.org/briefing/epi-ai-legal-update.md): Four hours on 3 December, 10:00 to 14:00 CET, on copyright, data protection and the AI Act; booking closes 2 December.
- [CNC aid for films, audiovisual works and games will require a script author](https://eugfa.org/briefing/cnc-author-rule-ai.md): The 14 October deliberation, published on 31 October, also ties music aid to a composer and narrows dubbing costs.
- [NPO and three media groups set AI deepfake labels for news, reality and fiction](https://eugfa.org/briefing/dutch-ai-deepfake-labels.md): Deepfakes in films and series get the EU AI logo at the start; in news it stays on screen while they show.
- [Commission says AI effects in standard film work are unlikely to pass as real](https://eugfa.org/briefing/article-50-film-effects.md): An Article 50 FAQ adds a film example; deepfakes still need a clear disclosure by first exposure at the latest.
- [French deputies debate an AI presumption-of-use bill on 19 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/france-ai-presumption-bill.md): A Senate text would let one plausible indication shift the burden of proof onto AI providers in civil copyright cases.
- [Meta moves its website-crawling business terms back to 20 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/meta-crawling-terms-delay.md): Festivals and studios whose Facebook Page links to their own site have three more weeks to set crawler rules.
- [Artefact AI film festival with mk2 asks for AI in every production phase](https://eugfa.org/briefing/artefact-ai-film-festival.md): Entries close on 2 December for films up to 314 seconds, with a €10,000 grand prize and a required production log.
- [Mistral's Voxtral 3 voice models can run on servers in Europe](https://eugfa.org/briefing/mistral-voxtral-3.md): Its text-to-speech model covers over 35 languages, with preset voices in 18, at US$13 per million characters.
- [Spanish AI governance bill lapses as the Cortes are dissolved](https://eugfa.org/briefing/spain-ai-bill-lapses.md): With elections on 29 November, the text that named AESIA as enforcer of deepfake labelling must start again.
- [Cartoon Movie asks 2027 pitching projects to declare any AI use](https://eugfa.org/briefing/cartoon-movie-ai-declaration.md): Animated features have until 12 November to enter the Bordeaux forum, held from 2 to 4 March 2027.
- [EMAP media art residencies offer €4,000 grants, closing 6 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/emap-residencies-2027.md): Fifteen European hosts take residents for two months in 2027; students below PhD level cannot apply.
- [Belgian bill would give every person a right over AI copies of face and voice](https://eugfa.org/briefing/belgium-deepfake-likeness-right.md): The Chamber published bill DOC 56 1728 on 7 September 2026; rights would run until 50 years after death.
- [Turin AI film festival bars cloned faces and voices made without consent](https://eugfa.org/briefing/unreal-ai-festival-turin.md): Entries to the (UN)REAL AI Film Festival close on 31 October; each work costs €50 and must describe its AI workflow.
- [ORF-backed Austrian films must log AI use by timecode and drop AI music](https://eugfa.org/briefing/orf-ai-delivery-rules.md): Producers under the Film/Fernseh-Abkommen must deliver a cut list that separates AI, archive and their own footage.
- [Creative Innovation Lab call opens with €7.18 million for cross-sector tools](https://eugfa.org/briefing/creative-innovation-lab-2027.md): Legal entities have until 22 April 2027 to apply; projects must pair audiovisual work with music, books or museums.
- [Cottbus puts a fully AI-generated feature in its main competition](https://eugfa.org/briefing/cottbus-ai-feature-competition.md): A Woman Asleep, an 80-minute film from Turkey, is one of ten features in competition and screens on 4 and 7 November.
- [Black Forest Labs opens FLUX 3 Image Klein to small commercial users](https://eugfa.org/briefing/flux-klein-licence.md): Makers under US$5 million in yearly revenue may use its outputs commercially, after filtering or review.
- [Paris AI film festival will publish its entrants' ethics notebooks](https://eugfa.org/briefing/ethics-notebooks-paris.md): We Are Human picked 20 films from more than 2,100 entries and screens them free at the Forum des images on 24 November.
- [MiniMax H3 open weights are not licensed for use in the EU or UK](https://eugfa.org/briefing/minimax-h3-licence.md): The 2 August 2026 community agreement names four excluded territories, while the hosted API stays available worldwide.
- [Aarhus generative filmmaking semester takes applications until 1 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/aarhus-generative-semester.md): VIA's 30 ECTS spring 2027 course runs February to early June; exchange students pay no tuition, free movers €8,028.
- [Denmark proposes consent rule for AI imitations of faces and voices](https://eugfa.org/briefing/denmark-deepfake-consent-bill.md): The Copyright Act amendment went to parliament on 8 October 2026 and exempts satire, parody and caricature.
- [Stuttgart animation festival asks entrants to declare generative AI use](https://eugfa.org/briefing/itfs-2027-ai-declaration.md): Short-film entries for ITFS 2027 close on 15 November 2026, and AI use alone does not disqualify a film.
- [World AI Film Festival in Cannes asks entrants for a production journal](https://eugfa.org/briefing/waiff-2027-production-journal.md): Entries for the April 2027 edition close on 15 February 2027, and the €15 early fee ends on 15 November.
- [EU copyright consultation on generative AI closes on 3 November](https://eugfa.org/briefing/eu-copyright-consultation-ai.md): The Commission's survey, announced on 29 September, has three sections on AI, including imitations of performers.
- [Signatories of the EU AI labelling code form two task forces](https://eugfa.org/briefing/labelling-code-task-forces.md): More than 90 signatories met on 30 September and 1 October, and a sector practices group is due by November.
- [Creative Europe opens €14 million call for audiovisual innovation](https://eugfa.org/briefing/creative-europe-innovation-call.md): Applications close on 14 January 2027 at 17:00 CET, and evaluators score each proposal's AI strategy.
- [Clermont-Ferrand adds AI disclosure rules for its 2027 festival](https://eugfa.org/briefing/clermont-ferrand-ai-rules.md): Entrants must declare AI use on Shortfilmdepot, and fully AI-generated films are capped at one per person.
- [Two weeks left to enter New Frames](https://eugfa.org/briefing/new-frames-final-two-weeks.md): Student films of one to five minutes, free to enter, €900 in prizes.
- [A working map of the models makers use](https://eugfa.org/briefing/models-reference.md): Video, image and audio generation in one reference, with links out to each provider.
- [Live workshops on making generative short films](https://eugfa.org/briefing/making-generative-short-films.md): A free intro session, then a five-part cohort from intention to a finished short.
- [A curated reading room for generative film](https://eugfa.org/briefing/reading-room-opens.md): Public essays, guides and research, each with a short note on why it belongs.
- [EU transparency rules for AI-generated content now apply](https://eugfa.org/briefing/ai-act-transparency-rules.md): Article 50 of the AI Act asks for disclosure, with a lighter touch for evidently artistic work.