The highly anticipated Sparknify Human vs. AI Film Festival concluded dramatically on Saturday, May 17, 2025, announcing this year’s award winners during the Human vs. AI Award Gala at Plug and Play Tech Center in Silicon Valley. The festival showcased 14 finalist short films — half created by traditional filmmakers, half generated by AI —all judged blindly by a prestigious international jury with no knowledge of the creators’ identities.

In a press conference unlike any other, Sparknify launched its Human vs. AI Tech Fair & Film Festival — not with a traditional host, but with two ultra-realistic AI avatars who delivered the entire announcement with uncanny precision and presence. The digital presenters, powered by DeepBrain.ai and vidBoard.al, looked and sounded indistinguishably human — a fitting start to a festival that will explore the rapidly blurring lines between machine-made and human-made storytellin