Before entering, please be sure to review the full entry criteria, which give tips on how to submit your entry in each category.

If you are unsure about anything, please email [email protected]

Timeline

July 30 – Entries open
October 10 – Entries close
October 13-31 – Judging period
November 5 – Finalists announced
November 10-28 – Digital finalists preview season on C21Media.net
December 4 (during Content London) – Awards ceremony

General Entry Criteria

• The Awards are open to any TV or film project that uses generative AI in its production process.
• The project must have been released within the past 2 years (from July 30).
• Entries will be accepted from the producers or distributors of a show. It is the entrant’s responsibility for submitting the correct listings for each show.
• Ineligible entries can be disqualified at any stage of the competition without refund. Please check the criteria thoroughly before entering.
• Any materials submitted may be used as part of the awards season on C21Media.net, should the show become a finalist.
• The judges will review submissions remotely via password-protected AwardsForce accounts.

Entry fees

• The fee to enter is £399 for the first entry.
  (an ‘entry’ counts as one entry in one category. The same show in two categories would count as two ‘entries’, and so on…)
• A second entry is priced at £299.
• All subsequent entries (third and beyond), will be charged at £199 each.

• Payment of the entry fee will be requested as part of the online entry process. We ask that payment is made by card.
• Entry fees must be received by 23.59 BST on September 24. Entries left without payment will be discarded.
• We cannot offer refunds for incorrect submissions. Please read the entry criteria thoroughly before submitting.

*All entries must be in English or with English subtitles/dubbing.

Supporting materials

To complete your entry, we require the following supporting materials:

• Production/Distribution/Channel/TX date details.
• A short entry pitch that describes the project.
• Project synopsis.
• Why it should win.
• Project trailer (up to three minutes long) – 16:9, landscape, mov or mp4. 1.5GB max file size.
• The full-length episode – 16:9, landscape, mov or mp4. 5GB max file size.
  Show logo (landscape) – any size, png or jpg
• Key art image.
• Editorial coverage: we will be featuring shortlisted entries in an editorial season on C21Media.net and C21’s Substack publications.

For inclusion, we require the answers to a brief set of questions about the entry. You will find these within the entry fields. The ‘project video pitch’ is not obligatory, but may be reviewed by the judges where provided; extracts of this video may also be used on C21Media’s platforms and Substacks as part of the coverage of the awards.

We will only use the project promo video for this season – not the full project video.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By submitting Entries to The Generaition Awards, all Applicants represent, warrant and accept that:

a) all necessary rights clearances, releases, permissions and consents from all contributors having contributed to the Entries and the Teasers have been acquired to enable the exploitation of the Entries and the participation thereof in The Generaition Awards.

b) the Entries and the Project trailer do not infringe upon or violate any copyright, trademark, right of privacy or right of publicity or any other right of any kind or nature of any person or entity or legal norm under any applicable jurisdiction.

By submitting Entries to The Generaition Awards, all Applicants acknowledge and accept that:

a) Entries and Project trailers shall be made available on C21 digital platforms for the purposes of being viewed by the Jury members, the Organiser, other Entrants, delegates attending The Generaition Awards, and specifically invited guests on The Generaition Awards Platform prior to the announcement of the Award winners;

b) Project trailers, entry Excerpts and supporting videos can be made publicly available on C21Media.net and its associated digital platforms when the shortlist is published, when the nominees are announced and within the awards ceremony as it’s staged live and/or as a stream and for subsequent catch-up viewing by the general public after the announcement of the Award winners;

c) When The Generaition Awards is staged as a full live event, Entries can be listed in a Generaition Awards brochure, together with all corresponding information (such as contact details of the Entrant and of the broadcaster or platform having aired it, and a still from the Entry, etc.). Stills from the Entry or pictures to be included in the Generaition Awards brochure shall be chosen by the Organiser at its discretion;

d) the Organiser shall have, without limitation in time, for the purposes of the Generaition Awards and for promotion and publicity, a worldwide and royalty-free right to use, exhibit, distribute, transmit and publish the project trailers as well as any excerpts from the Entry up to a maximum of three minutes by any means and in any and all media, including but not limited to Internet transmission (including on the Organiser’s websites, on the official YouTube channels of the Organiser) without the need to make any payment whatsoever.

Confidentiality of Full-Length Content: The full-length episode and any non-public materials will be used solely for judging and will not be published or distributed beyond that context.

Ownership: Entrants retain all rights, title and interest in and to the submitted content. Participation in The GenerAItion Awards does not transfer or license ownership of the submitted content, except as expressly stated above.

AI Training: Submitted materials (including text, video, images, and any metadata) will not be used by C21 Media to train artificial intelligence or machine learning models.

The exercise of the rights granted hereunder shall not be subject to any copyright fees or any other payments or compensation of any kind or nature.