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25 Films in One Day: Inside the AI Film Hackathon in Tokyo
Tokyo, July 2026. Eighty creators walked into a room in Kawasaki with no footage, no crew, and one day on the clock. They walked out with 25 finished films.
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Floyo ran the production stack for the AI Film Hackathon in Tokyo, hosted by AIMovieStudio and co-sponsored by Cloud Ace, held at Fujitsu's Uvance Innovation Studio inside the Uvance Kawasaki Tower.
Every team worked on Floyo. We supplied the infrastructure the whole event ran on: browser-based ComfyUI, workflows, compute, accounts for every participant, and people on the floor to keep it moving.
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The format
One day, start to finish. Teams formed in the morning, sat through a hands-on AI workshop over lunch, then spent the afternoon generating, editing, and cutting. Screening and awards ran in the evening.
That compression is the point. Most filmmakers never get to run the entire production process in a single sitting: concept, look development, shot generation, edit, sound, delivery. Here they did it before dinner. Running in the browser meant no local setup, no GPU wrangling, and no install time eating into the clock.
It also meant a team worked as a team. A workflow one member built was immediately available to the rest of the group, rather than rebuilt from scratch on separate machines.
Twenty five of those films were finished and submitted by the 19:00 deadline.
The winners
- 1st place“TOKEI”
Team TOKEI, led by Tan Kin Piow - 2nd place“The Face I Lost”
TrueSelf Studio, led by Shingo Umetsu - 3rd place“The Cat and the Beanstalk”
Team Banana, led by Aya - Floyo Award“LAST CUSTOMER”
yuta, led by yuta
The top films are slated for screening at the Chinese Theatre in Hollywood as part of Global Stage Hollywood in October 2026.
Why we showed up
Floyo exists for production teams. The fastest way to find out whether a platform holds up under production pressure is to put it in front of eighty people who have one day and something to prove. Deadlines expose the seams a controlled demo never will.
What we saw: creators with no prior ComfyUI experience running node-based workflows inside the first hour, and teams building the shots their scripts actually called for instead of bending the story to fit whatever the tool would give them. The setup stayed simple enough that the day came down to storytelling rather than troubleshooting.
Credit to the people who built the room. Hero Kominato and AIMovieStudio, Tokyo's largest international AI video community, ran the event. Cloud Ace, a Google Cloud Diamond tier partner, co-sponsored. Ilya Kulyatin of Tokyo AI and Douglas Montgomery of Global Stage Hollywood rounded out the organising group and brought a real distribution prize to the table, which changes how seriously people take a one day build.
What's next
Japan's creative AI community is charging ahead. We are continuing with AIMovieStudio and Cloud Ace on onboarding workshops and further events across Japan, and we will keep putting the platform in rooms like this one, where it has to hold up in front of people on a deadline.
Run the same workflows the teams used
Browser-based ComfyUI, no machine setup, no idle costs. If you are in Tokyo, AIMovieStudio is free to join.
Floyo ran the production stack for the AI Film Hackathon in Tokyo, hosted by AIMovieStudio and co-sponsored by Cloud Ace, held at Fujitsu's Uvance Innovation Studio (UiS) inside the Uvance Kawasaki Tower.