拉脱维亚电影制片人尼古拉·谢斯塔克（Nikolay Shestak）赢得了45万美元（401，000欧元）在哈萨克斯坦首届阿斯塔纳人工智能电影节上荣获大奖，该片使用人工智能创作。《第一诚实日》探讨了人们的行为如何塑造他们成为谁，坏事使人物外表更加丑陋，而善行则使他们变得更好。Shestak，他大约四年前开始执导，两年前开始使用人工智能制作电影，他说他没想到会赢。
Latvian filmmaker Nikolay Shestak has won the $450,000 (€401,000) Grand Prix at the first Astana AI Film Festival in Kazakhstan for his film The First Honest Day, created using artificial intelligence. The First Honest Day explores how people's actions shape who they become, with bad deeds making its characters physically uglier and good deeds changing them for the better. Shestak, who started directing around four years ago and began making films with AI two years ago, said he did not expect to win." Honestly, I didn't expect to win. There were so many incredible works and different genres here that I'm curious myself why the jury chose my film," he said.
“老实说，我没想到会赢。他说：“这里有很多令人难以置信的作品和不同的类型，我自己也很好奇为什么评委会选择我的电影。”他计划将奖金投资于制作新电影和发展他的项目。印度电影制片人Abhik Banerjee凭借《SITARA》获得了第二名，他获得了20万美元的奖金（178，000欧元），而西班牙的Ernest Desumbila获得了100，000美元（89，000欧元），用于寻找英仙座，排名第三。（223，000欧元）在公开比赛中分为五个类别，每个获奖者获得50，000美元（44，000欧元）。哈萨克斯坦电影制片人Myrzakhan Zhumakhan凭借喜剧《这只是一个笑话》获得最佳角色奖。中国的2xLabs凭借《最后的跨度》获得最佳故事奖，而意大利电影制片人Jacopo Zanetti凭借《工作是什么？》获得最佳视觉奖。
He plans to invest the prize money in making new films and developing his projects. Second place in the main competition went to Indian filmmaker Abhik Banerjee for SITARA, earning him $200,000 (€178,000), while Spain's Ernest Desumbila received $100,000 (€89,000) for Looking For Perseida in third place. Another $250,000 (€223,000) was distributed across five categories in the open competition, with each winner receiving $50,000 (€44,000).Kazakh filmmaker Myrzakhan Zhumakhan won Best Character for his comedy It Was Just a Joke.
另一位意大利电影制片人雅格波·雷亚尔（Jacopo Reale）凭借《骨折》获得最佳导演奖，美国电影制片人扎卡里·伦敦（Zachary London）凭借《激情》获得最佳概念奖。这些电影的评判不仅取决于人工智能工具的使用方式，还取决于它们的艺术视野、讲故事和整体连贯性，以及技术如何有机地融入创意概念。国际评审团包括奥黛丽·阿祖莱（Audrey Azoulay）、联合国教科文组织前总干事、法国前文化部长、中国电影集团马萍、北京电影学院王昊、企业家兼投资者巴拉吉·斯里尼瓦桑、字节加高管李龙。
China's 2xLabs won Best Story for The Last Span, while Italian filmmaker Jacopo Zanetti received Best Visual for What's the Job?. Another Italian filmmaker, Jacopo Reale, won Best Direction for The Fracture, and US filmmaker Zachary London took Best Concept for Pomegranate. The films were judged not only on how AI tools were used but also on their artistic vision, storytelling and overall coherence, as well as how organically the technology was integrated into the creative concept. The international jury included Audrey Azoulay, former Director-General of UNESCO and former French Culture Minister, Ping Ma of China Film Group, Wang Hao of Beijing Film Academy, entrepreneur and investor Balaji Srinivasan, and BytePlus executive Long Li.
今年的比赛吸引了来自125个国家的8，000多份参赛作品，最终节目选出了25部电影。这些项目跨越19种类型，使用80多种生成人工智能模型创建。一个吸引了数千名人工智能电影制片人的电影节该电影节的总资金为200万美元（180万欧元）。其中一半由Freedom Holding Corp.旗下的Freedom Shapagat Corporate Foundation提供，被分配给奖金。
This year's competition attracted more than 8,000 submissions from 125 countries, with 25 films selected for the final programme. The projects span 19 genres and were created using more than 80 generative AI models.A festival drawing thousands of AI filmmakersThe festival had a total fund of $2 million (€1.8mn). Half of it, provided by the Freedom Shapagat Corporate Foundation under Freedom Holding Corp., was allocated to prize money.
另外一半被拨出作为投资资金，用于哈萨克斯坦有前途的人工智能团队和生产发展。哈萨克斯坦总统卡西姆-若马特·萨卡耶夫在该节日开幕式上强调了人工智能如何改变该行业。“电影制片人和制作人员不再需要敲制作公司的大门或寻找赞助商。进入门槛已显着降低，”他说。与此同时，托卡耶夫表示，人工智能不会取代电影制作人的创意角色，但可能成为“每个致力于创造力的人不可或缺的工具”。
Another half was set aside as investment capital for promising AI teams and the development of production in Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan's President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, who opened the festival, highlighted how artificial intelligence is changing the industry." Filmmakers and production crews no longer need to knock on the doors of production companies or look for sponsors. The barrier to entry has become significantly lower," he said. At the same time, Tokayev said AI would not replace the creative role of filmmakers, but could become "an indispensable tool for everyone who has devoted their life to creativity."
“他还表示，这个节日对于哈萨克斯坦来说是及时的，因为该国的年轻人口。“哈萨克斯坦是一个年轻人的国家。我国人口的平均年龄为33岁。
He also said the festival was timely for Kazakhstan, pointing to the country's young population." Kazakhstan is a country of young people.
“我认为哈萨克斯坦的年轻人受过良好教育，乐于接受新思想，既聪明又富有思考力，”托卡耶夫说道。对于AAIFF的联合创始人兼创意总监艾扎特·库萨伊诺夫而言，人工智能领域的快速发展正是举办这一电影节的主要动因。“推动我们创办这个电影节的动力就是‘错失恐惧症’。由于技术发展速度极快，我们生怕错失良机，”库萨伊诺夫说道。
The average age of our population is 33. I consider Kazakh youth educated, open to new ideas, intelligent and thoughtful," Tokayev said. For AAIFF co-founder and creative director Aizat Kussainov, the rapid pace of development in artificial intelligence was one of the main reasons to launch the festival." The driving force of this festival was FOMO. We had a fear of missing the opportunity because the technology is moving very fast," Kussainov said."
“然而此前从未有人创办过此类电影节，我们希望成为全球首个举办此类活动的国家——而我们也做到了。我们成功举办了全球规模最大的人工智能电影节。”库萨伊诺夫表示，他们的目标并不仅限于举办电影节，还希望吸引国际创作者来到哈萨克斯坦。“实际上，我们的主要目的并非举办电影节，而是把整个创意产业群体吸引到阿斯塔纳，让他们亲眼见证我国的发展成果。我们希望他们能移居此地，从此开启新的电影创作生涯，”他补充道。
But no one had actually created a festival like this, and we wanted to be the first in the world — and we did it. We had the biggest AI film festival in the world." Kussainov said the ambition goes beyond staging the festival itself and is also about bringing international creators to Kazakhstan." The main goal actually was not the festival. It was bringing the whole creative community here to Astana and making them see how our country is developing. We want them to move here and start creating their new movies from here," he said.
此次参赛影片也面向阿斯塔纳的公众进行了公映，让观众得以欣赏到入选电影节的优秀作品，并了解人工智能在电影制作中的实际应用。
The competition films were also screened for the public in cinemas in Astana, allowing audiences to see the films selected for the festival and how artificial intelligence is being used in filmmaking.