This AI movie blew away judges and just won a $35,000 film festival

An AI film contest put together by YouTubers ‘The Dor Brothers’ blew away a judge panel consisting of Grimes, Oliver Tree, and more.

The Dor Brothers have taken YouTube by storm with their wild AI videos, and in October, they decided to hold their own film festival with a $35,000 prize.

The festival, dubbed The Dor Awards, had hundreds of entries and was judged by some of the biggest creators in the world, including musician Grimes, WWE superstar Logan Paul, Oliver Tree, Oscar winner Roger Avary, Kill Tony co-host Brian Redban, and more.

For the contest, some simple rules needed to be followed: films could only be 1-3 minutes in length and had to be themed around either a door, twins, or a trophy.

After narrowing down the contestants to 10 finalists, a winner was crowned, taking home a $20,000 grand prize, second place winning $10,000, and $5,000 for third. All the movies, including the winner, are free to watch at this link.

‘PerfectMan’ wins $20,000 in AI film festival contest

The winning movie, created by Ofri Margalit and Omer Eventov, was called ‘PerfectMan,’ and it absolutely stunned the judges.

The plot, which we won’t spoil here, used the door theme and played into a technological horror that many on the judging panel felt could become a reality.

“Kinda eerie. It’s a future that I think is not too distant that can become very real, very quickly. It made me feel. I felt sadness,” Logan Paul said. “It was beautiful. It was creepy.”

Roger Avary, co-writer of Pulp Fiction, was also impressed by PerfectMan, and praised its strong “emotional narrative.”

“This was a film that had something to say,” he remarked.

Grimes, who had never done a reaction video before, watched the whole video and called it “beautiful.”

Meanwhile, coming in second was ‘Torii’ by Danny Tseng, a found footage style horror film about tourists visiting Japan and behaving poorly (much like modern-day streamers).

Mathieu Samson’s Back Door finished third and was about North Korean military shrinking down to enter a brutally sick Kim Jong Un through the… back door, like an R-rated version of the Magic School Bus.