


Machine Cinema LA: GenJam "Make Your Own AI Film - Fake Sports Edition"
Make Your Own AI Film "Fake Sports" edition
🌐 It's the Wide World of WTF Sports
What even is a sport? For our next GenJam, we’re working with our friends at Echobend to throw you into the arena with nothing but your imagination and a handful of weird, seemingly unrelated objects. Your mission: invent a new sport from scratch—and show us how it works. Think: a broom, a hoop, and a golden ball with wings. Never heard of Quidditch? Exactly.
Craft the rules. Design the chaos. And bring it all to life in a short promo, highlight reel, or fever-dream recap. Whether it’s Olympic-grade absurdity or a cult underground phenomenon, we want to feel the hype.
What You’ll Do
💡 Brainstorm & Conceptualize
Start with a few random objects, a few questionable ideas, and zero rules.
Invent a sport no one’s ever heard of—but will definitely have strong opinions about.
Use AI tools to develop gameplay, uniforms, team names, and dubious lore.
🎥 Make It Real
Bring your sport to life using generative video tools, voice AI, and music synthesis.
Whether it’s a gritty ESPN-style doc, a late-night hype reel, or a recruitment video for “Team Gloop,” this is your moment to show us how it’s played—and why it matters (or doesn’t).
🏆 Screen & Celebrate
Share your video with the crowd and compete for glory in categories like:
Most WTF Sport
Best Overall
“We’d Actually Watch This” Award
Who Should Attend
🎨 Creatives & Worldbuilders – If you like making up weird stuff and seeing it through, this is for you.
🤖 AI Tinkerers & Tool Nerds – Great excuse to flex your generative workflows on something utterly pointless.
🎭 Performers & Storytellers – Announce the play-by-play, build the drama, or become a retired champion with a grudge.
🎬 Filmmakers & Editors – Quick-turn concept-to-edit challenge, and a chance to make something wonderfully unhinged.
Schedule
📍 Location: [Insert venue here]
⏰ 6:00 PM – Arrivals & Mingling
🎬 6:30 PM – Intro + AI Tool Demo
💡 7:00 PM – Challenge Reveal & Team Formation
🎥 7:15 PM - 9:30 PM – Production Time
🏁 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM – Screening & Awards
What to Expect
💻 Laptop Required – You’ll need your own device to participate.
🛠️ Tool Access – Got ElevenLabs, Suno, Luma, Runway, etc.? Bring your logins. We’ll provide shared options where we can.
🍕 Dinner Will Be Provided – Because you can’t run a fake sport on an empty stomach.
Whether you’re dreaming up a zero-gravity badminton league or a full-contact interpretive dance-off judged by dolphins, one thing’s clear: this isn’t your average game night.
Step into the Wide World of WTF Sports. Let the games begin. 🏅