"URSULA" (2026) - dir. OverJK GenJam #DirectorsCup Best Film

The Machine Cinema GenJam Director’s Cup, powered by OpenArt AI. The first global AI filmmaking championship. 63 nations. More than 1,000 creators. More than 500 films. 16 countries qualified for the World Finals. Poland became the first AI Video World Champion! 🇵🇱🏆 But there was another surprise. Apparently, I also made the best film of the entire competition. URSULA finished first in the Final and won Best Film and the entire #DirectorsCup. And strangely enough, it was probably one of the quietest films in the competition. Definitely one of the quietest I’ve ever made. Minimal. Dark. Almost painfully simple. A deeply Polish story told through an East Asian narrative structure, created with AI and given a slightly Western ending. I generated the film natively in 21:9 using ByteDance Seedance 2.0, combining OpenArt AI with ComfyUI to make it feel less like a tech demo and more like cinema — and somehow, it won.