Sapporo International AI Film Festival 札幌国際AI映画祭
For Sponsors
Creators from around the world who have made stories with AI, start to finish, gather in Sapporo.
Will you help us plant the first flag of Japan's AI film scene?
This is not sponsorship where logos simply line up. The festival is designed as a place where companies meet creators, and where the next job and the next culture begin.
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From entries submitted around the world, we invite the Final Selection creators to Sapporo. The people gathered here are those who have taken a film all the way to completion using AI. The Networking Reception, the booths in the theater foyer, the Sponsor Session. Whether you're hiring, commissioning, or co-creating, you'll meet people who speak your language, all on the same day.
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Filmmaking with generative AI is at the very moment of emerging as a culture. The Sapporo International AI Film Festival is its first edition. Only in the first few editions can you be on the side that, ten years from now, is said to be where Japan's AI film scene spread from. This is not an ad buy. It is an investment remembered as a founding act of culture. Your company's name remains in the closing credits after the screening.
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Some 1,000 people looking up at the big screen of Sapporo Cultural Arts Theater hitaru. People who watch the talk archive to the end. International entrants visiting our multilingual website. You reach only those who are making something with AI, want to, or want others to. This is reach in deep context, a different quality from the "caught my eye somehow" exposure of mass advertising.
As this is the first edition, the figures below are projections.
AI creators; film, music, and game creators; students; engineers; corporate staff in new business, creative, and recruiting roles; film fans. The hitaru theater (1,686 seats on two levels) operates with reserved seating at ¥1,000 admission. The Selection Screening at SCARTS is open free of charge, so the films and your commercial reach even those without a ticket.
The talks are recorded and streamed as an Online Archive after the festival. Award-winning films are released online on the official channel. The official website is multilingual and reaches international entrants and the global AI film community.
Four plans: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Sponsor. Each higher plan includes all benefits of the plans below it.
Platinum Sponsor
Put your name on an award,
and stay in the winner's biography for good.
¥500,000 JPY
In addition to all Gold benefits, you create a Sponsor Prize bearing your company's name and present it from the stage of a 1,686-seat theater. Your name stays in the winner's profile for good: branding that advertising can't buy.
hitaru theater
SCARTS
Online & official website
Invitations
Gold Sponsor
Set up a booth in the path of 1,000 people,
and talk to creators face to face.
¥300,000 JPY
In addition to all Silver benefits, you can set up a booth in the foyer of the hitaru theater, where every attendee passes from doors open to exit. Start conversations about hiring, co-creation, and commissions on the spot.
hitaru theater
SCARTS
Online & official website
Invitations
Silver Sponsor
Show your video on the SCARTS screens,
and take your place in the theater credits.
¥100,000 JPY
In addition to all Sponsor benefits (¥30,000 or equivalent in-kind services), your commercial is shown all day within the screening loop at SCARTS Court and the Studios. It reaches attendees without a ticket, too, focused on people interested in AI.
hitaru theater
SCARTS
Online & official website
Invitations
Sponsor
Stay in the closing credits
as a name that was there from the start.
¥30,000 JPYor equivalent in-kind services
The closing credits roll after the screening, before the house lights come up. The only things on that screen are the films and the names of those who supported this festival. You will be on record as a company or organization that supported the first edition.
hitaru theater
Online & official website
Invitations
Creator Invitation Sponsor
Bring a creator
all the way to Sapporo.
¥10,000 JPY per unit
A contribution to the Creator Invitation Fund, which covers travel costs for Final Selection creators. It can be added to any plan or taken on its own.
| Benefit | Platinum 3 companies, ¥500,000 | Gold 5 companies, ¥300,000 | Silver ¥100,000 | Sponsor ¥30,000 or equivalent in-kind services |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| hitaru theater | ||||
| Awards ceremony | Sponsor Prize naming rights + presenter on stage + company name announced | ― | ― | ― |
| Closing credits (final slide after the screening) | Large logo | Large logo | Medium logo | Small logo |
| Foyer booth | Yes (priority position) | ◎ | ― | ― |
| SCARTS | ||||
| Court | Commercial in the screening loop + 10-minute Sponsor Session (16:00–16:30) | Commercial in the screening loop | Commercial in the screening loop | ― |
| Studio A & B | Commercial in the screening loop | Commercial in the screening loop | Commercial in the screening loop | ― |
| Mall | Booth + signage | Signage | Signage | ― |
| Online & official website | ||||
| Opening credits of the talk archive | Large logo | Medium logo | Small logo | Small logo |
| Official website | Large logo | Large logo | Medium logo | Small logo |
| Invitations | ||||
| Theater, talks & reception | 5 guests | 3 guests | 1 guest | 1 guest |
On sponsor presence in the theater — No advertising, commercials, or corporate presentations are shown in the hitaru auditorium or on its screen. We keep advertising out of the room people pay to sit in. Sponsor presence in the theater takes three forms only: the presentation of the Sponsor Prizes, the closing credits after the screening, and the booths in the foyer, provided according to each plan. Commercials and presentations take place at SCARTS.
On commercial videos — Commercials are shown within the loop of the Selection Screening running all day at SCARTS Court and the Studios. They are not shown in the hitaru auditorium or on its screen.
Please email us with your company name and the plan you are considering. Early-stage conversations and questions about combining plans are welcome.
Opens an email to info@sugoiai.org. Japanese or English, please.