Where to Upload and Share an AI Film

Choose the release you actually want

Decide whether the film is ready for public viewing, restricted review, festival screenings, or a later commercial release. These are separate permissions. A private screener can support editorial review without authorizing a public listing or player embed. If a festival or distributor controls a release window, settle that before making the full film public.

Keep your finished master, captions, artwork, credits, and rights documents in storage you control. A video link is a viewing source, not a substitute for your production archive. Do not publish another person's film, a reference asset, or an unfinished cut merely to complete a submission.

Provide one official viewing source

Use your official creator or studio upload, an authorized distributor release, or a secure screener. Keep the film title, creator name, runtime, and description consistent with the submission. A repost on an unrelated channel makes attribution harder to verify and cannot establish distribution authority.

For public on-site viewing, a permitted YouTube or Vimeo player must work with the provider's embedding settings and access restrictions. Cinema Marketplace can link to an official source when embedding is unavailable. A public upload never grants paid rental rights by itself.

Prepare a profile people can understand

Supply the exact title, runtime, release date or year, genre, language, credited filmmaker or team, logline, and a concise story synopsis. Explain meaningful AI involvement by naming the tools and what they contributed, alongside the human writing, direction, performance, editing, music, and other roles.

Use the AI Film Credits Builder to organize attribution and the release-package checklist to review metadata, artwork, captions, and source records. Do not describe a film as entirely AI-generated when it contains photographed performances or substantial conventional animation.

Send the Cinema Marketplace submission

Open Submit an AI Film, add your official link or private screener, identify your role and authority, and select the listing and embed permissions. The form prepares an email that you inspect and send through your own email application. Filling it out alone does not submit anything.

There is no video-file uploader on the submission page. Do not send large master files or private release documents as ordinary email attachments. Provide the review link and explain access restrictions; any later delivery requirements need a separate discussion.

Editorial review and a standard accepted directory profile are free. Review checks completeness, official-source access, creator attribution, meaningful AI involvement, and permission clarity. Acceptance, response timing, traffic, or earnings are not guaranteed.

Connect an accepted film to its filmmaker

An accepted profile gives viewers a stable film record with story context, runtime, genre, credits, production notes, and the permitted viewing source. It connects to the filmmaker's profile and relevant catalog collections. This helps people move from one film to another work by the same creator.

Visit the creator directory to see the current profiles. If your work is already listed, use claim or correct a creator profile rather than submitting a competing record. You can request sourced corrections, updated links, changed embedding preferences, or removal.

Request rental consideration separately

You can select future rental interest in the submission or apply through Founding Filmmakers. That records a goal; it does not turn your free listing into a paid offer. Paid rentals and creator payouts are not active on Cinema Marketplace.

Before a licensed rental, the rights holder would need to approve commercial authority, price, territory, term, availability, promotional use, viewer access, platform share, permitted deductions, reporting, and payout arrangements. Use the creator distribution pathway to prepare those questions and the marketplace preview to understand the direction.