The Tribeca Film Festival and IBM are teaming up to present “Storytellers with Watson“, a competition for creative builders across media and entertainment including Tribeca’s alumni network to use IBM Watson’s cognitive computing platform to create original stories.
Participants in the U.S. can submit ideas on how they would apply Watson to any storytelling medium, such as film and video, web content, gaming, augmented reality and virtual reality. IBM has worked with Tribeca to develop five use-case categories that can help guide the ideation process for submissions, including examples of cognitive solutions and how Watson APIs can be applied to their creation. Guiding categories include development, pre-production, production and post-production, audience experience and interaction, and marketing and distribution. The aim is to encourage new thinking on the challenges that exist in creativity or productivity and how Watson can be applied to improving this experience.
The competition is open to the public and will also tap into Tribeca’s alumni network of thousands of media industry influencers, digital producers and creative firms to utilize the Watson platform to create original stories. Over the past 16 years since the Tribeca Film Festival’s inception, this alumni community has submitted entries to the Festival and are actively involved in creating films, TV programming, online content and other forms of interactive digital media.
Judges from Tribeca Enterprises and IBM will evaluate submissions and select up to 5 finalists to travel to NYC to workshop their ideas. Finalists will have an opportunity to pitch their idea to a panel of top leaders from IBM and Tribeca Enterprises, including acclaimed film and TV producer Paula Weinstein, Executive VP of Tribeca Enterprises. The grand prize winner will be invited with a guest to Tribeca 2018.
All submissions are subject to the Storytellers with Watson contest rules.
Tribeca contest for creators to use Watson in creating their media work opens.
Enter contest between 4/19/17 at 12:00 p.m. ET and 5/18/17 at 11:59 p.m.ET.
