AI must play a substantive role in principal audiovisual material, performance, narrative organisation, generative rules or audience experience. There is no fixed AI-use percentage for 2027. Explain its role and human creative decisions through the work, concise context and assessable evidence. Subtitling, denoising, upscaling or administrative assistance alone does not establish eligibility.
As creation evolves, evaluation moves forward.
Since its beginnings in 2024, HKAIIFF has explored how AI changes moving-image creation. For 2027, seven Unicorn Awards recognise complete works, continuing creative achievements and new narrative, audiovisual and experiential expression.
Developing appropriate ways to evaluate AI-native film remains the festival’s mission. Emotion, thought, culture and completeness still matter; the new framework helps different creative approaches be understood accurately. The 2026 awards and laureate records remain intact.