A thousand dollars. A studio for life. 99% of a royalty token — yours to hold or sell.
This isn't a gift card. The winner gets $1,000 in their pocket, paid within seven days — BSV or Stripe, your call. But the cash isn't the only thing on the table. Every entrant — winner or not — gets a custom bMovies studio they can keep producing films through after the competition closes, taking commissions from other users and earning on their work.
$1,000 to the winner
Paid on or before 8 June 2026. BSV or Stripe payout — winner picks. That's 10 AI trailers at $99 shorts, or a hundred drafts. You decide what to spend it on.
Your own bMovies studio
Every trailer submitted earns its maker a permanent custom studio on the platform. Accept commissions from other users after the contest closes, produce their films, keep earning. Your entry fee is the time it takes to make the trailer — the studio is yours forever.
Leaderboard credit
First winner gets a permanent line on the bMovies homepage and their trailer pinned at the top of /watch for life.
Make a real trailer. Any tool. Tokenise on bMovies.
Comedy. Drama. Horror. Sci-fi. Noir. Documentary. Musical. Romance. Any genre that reads as a trailer when the lights go down. Minimum runtime is one minute — enough to sell a film, not enough to hide behind a fast cut. Use whatever tools or workflow you prefer: bMovies agents, Runway, Sora, Luma, Veo, Gemini, Suno, ElevenLabs, ffmpeg, Premiere — we're judging the trailer, not the stack.
Any platform, any workflow
Use whatever AI tooling gets you the result. bMovies has its own pipeline (agent swarm + ffmpeg stitch) if you want it; you are not required to use it. Mix tools, roll your own, whatever works.
One minute minimum
60 seconds or longer, end to end. Title cards count toward runtime but can't be the whole piece. No upper limit — 60s, 90s, 2 min, 3 min are all fair game. If it's shorter than a minute, it's a teaser, not a trailer.
Convincingly made
It has to hold together. Cuts land. Music supports picture. The VO doesn't crater. If a stranger watches with the sound on, they should call it a trailer — not a tech demo.
Tokenised on bMovies · KYC required
Your trailer must be tokenised on bMovies to be eligible — that's how we wire the royalty cap table and pay out ticket revenue. Tokenisation requires a one-time KYC check (5 min, mostly automatic). It's not gatekeeping; it's the compliance cost of minting a real BSV-21 royalty token you actually own.
You mint 99%. What you sell is up to you.
Every trailer tokenised on bMovies mints a BSV-21 royalty token. You start with 99% of the supply; bMovies takes a 1% platform cut and nothing more. After that it's a cap table — sell as much or as little of your stack as you like, at any price. Whatever slice you still hold when a payout fires earns you a pro-rata share of that payout; whatever you've sold pays whoever holds the tokens now. The prize doesn't force the sale. It just gives you a reason to mint the token in the first place.
The split, in full
- Mint 99% of the royalty tokens are minted to you at tokenisation. The remaining 1% funds bMovies — the only cut the platform ever takes off the supply.
- Revenue Ticket revenue splits 99% to token holders (pro-rata, whoever they are at payout time) and 1% to bMovies. Payouts fire on-chain on a weekly schedule — for as long as tickets keep selling.
- Sell or hold You can list any portion of your stack at any price via the Cap Table — or hold every token you still own. Nothing is forced. Raise money if you want an audience of owners; hold if you'd rather keep a bigger slice of the royalty stream.
- Ownership The trailer is yours. The studio we give you is yours. The tokens you still hold are yours. The tokens you sell belong to the buyer — that's how cap tables work. bMovies is a platform, not a rights-holder: we host the stream, run the cap table, take our 1%, and nothing else.
Four steps. No form. No gatekeeper.
There's no separate "prize entry" — any qualifying trailer tokenised on bMovies by 23:59 UTC on 1 June is automatically eligible. Here's the path from first idea to finished tokenised trailer.
trailer $9.99 lets the in-house agent swarm do it end to end) or bring your own stack. Runway, Sora, Luma, Veo, Gemini, ElevenLabs, Suno, Premiere — use whatever workflow you prefer. Only hard constraint: the final cut must be 60 seconds or longer.Four columns. A hundred points.
Judges score every eligible trailer on the same rubric: continuity, humour, lip-sync quality, and sheer wow factor. The panel is a rotating mix of the bMovies team plus invited guests — filmmakers, AI practitioners, critics — announced the week before close so nobody can tune a trailer to a specific judge's taste.
Does shot two look like it's from the same film as shot one? Characters, locations, colour, tone, pacing — does the trailer hold together as a single piece, or flicker between tech demos?
Where characters speak, does it read? AI lip-sync is the single hardest thing in this medium; nailing it is the difference between "neat" and "holy shit". Silent films score neutral on this column.
The thing you'd immediately send a friend. A moment, a shot, a needle-drop, a beat that makes the viewer sit up. It's subjective and we know it — that's the point of a panel.
Does the trailer have wit? Comic or not — we mean tonal wit: the confidence of a piece that knows what it's doing. Self-awareness, a wink, a pun, a swerve. Earnest films can score here too.
Opens 1 May. Closes 1 June.
The fine print, without the fine print.
Do I have to use bMovies tools?
No. Use whatever AI platform, workflow, or stack gets you the best trailer — Runway, Sora, Luma, Veo, Gemini, ElevenLabs, Suno, Premiere, ffmpeg, anything. bMovies has its own in-house pipeline and you're welcome to use it, but the only requirement for the prize is that the finished trailer gets tokenised on bMovies to be eligible. The production can happen anywhere.
Why a trailer, not a full film?
Because a minute of trailer is the right unit of craft for this prize. Feature films generated purely with AI are still more endurance than vision; trailers are where AI production shines. 60–180 seconds is enough to land a hook, a tone, a visual identity, and a reason for someone to buy a ticket — which is exactly what we want to reward.
Why the one-minute minimum?
Because a 30-second teaser can hide behind pace. A minute is long enough for the edit to have to breathe — two or three scenes, a VO that develops, a music bed that builds, a proper title card, an ending. If the piece holds together at a minute, it's a trailer. Shorter than that, it's a mood reel.
What's the KYC check? Why does it matter?
Your trailer gets minted as a BSV-21 royalty token that pays out forever. Royalty tokens are real financial instruments in most jurisdictions, so we run a one-time KYC check (ID document + quick selfie, handled by Veriff, typically finishes in 5 minutes) before we mint. It is not a gate to the prize — it's the regulatory floor for tokenising anything. Complete it once, tokenise as many trailers as you want after.
What's the "custom bMovies studio" bonus?
Every trailer you enter earns you a persistent producer-tier studio on bMovies. That means: a dedicated landing page, the ability to accept commissions from other users on the platform, a cap-table dashboard, and ongoing payouts on every job your studio takes. It's a permanent account upgrade — win or lose the prize, you keep the studio for life.
Does the trailer have to be new?
Yes. Trailers must be tokenised on bMovies on or after 1 May 2026. Anything tokenised before that is on the honour system — if it was a previous commission that the creator wants to re-enter, contact us and we'll tell you whether it qualifies.
Can I enter more than one trailer?
Yes. Enter as many as you like. Each one is scored separately. One cash prize goes to one trailer.
What if I use the bMovies pipeline — which tier?
The trailer $9.99 tier is the direct fit. short $99 and feature $999 also qualify if the stitched trailer cut on the finished film is a minute or longer. A draft $0.99 doesn't produce a trailer cut on its own — but drafts upgrade into trailer commissions cleanly from the film page, so the cost to reach eligibility is $10.98 if you start from a draft.
I already have a trailer I made elsewhere. How do I import it?
Sign in to bMovies, complete KYC if you haven't, then open the Publish flow in the account dashboard and upload your finished MP4 — it'll ingest, tokenise, and land on /watch like any other trailer. Royalty token mints the same way; judges treat imported and commissioned entries identically.
Who owns the trailer? Who owns the IP?
You do. bMovies is a platform — it never owns the trailer, the characters, or any derivative rights. The platform takes 1% of the royalty tokens in exchange for hosting, running the cap table, firing the payouts, and keeping the lights on. That's the only slice bMovies ever holds.
Is the prize paid in crypto or fiat?
Winner's choice. $1,000 worth of BSV at the exchange rate on 2 June 2026, OR a Stripe payout in your local currency to the card or bank account we have on file.
Who are the judges?
A rotating panel of the bMovies team plus invited guests — filmmakers, critics, AI practitioners. Published in full the week of 26 May, after the entry window is effectively frozen, so no trailer can be tuned to a specific judge's taste.
What if two trailers tie?
Sheer wow factor breaks the tie first. If that ties too, the panel reconvenes and votes live. Failing that, the earlier-tokenised entry wins — first to ship, first to win.
Can I use human footage or my own voice?
Yes, as supporting material. The trailer's core production should still be predominantly AI-generated — we're running an AI trailer prize, not a general short-film competition. If your trailer is 90% human-shot and 10% AI, it's a beautiful piece of work but not the right fit for this prize.
What is bMovies, and why is there a prize?
bMovies is a platform that turns film ideas into AI-produced trailers, shorts, and features, then tokenises each one as a BSV-21 royalty token its creator (and shareholders) can earn from forever. The BSV Association awarded us Most Innovative Submission at the Open Run Hackathon — this $1,000 prize is us paying that forward. Make a great trailer, tokenise it, own a studio, maybe win a grand.