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April 2026
Best AI Feature
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Xiang Duan
Yellow Era
“What makes the film linger is that yellow never changes. We do.”
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About the director
Meet Xiang Duan
Biography
A promising young director, full-time designer and artist at AIGC, a contracted director on the Tapnow platform, and a MiniMax AI creator. Specializes in using AIGC to express visual spectacles. Awards include a bronze medal at the American International Design Awards, a third prize in the preliminary round of the Xinhua News Agency AIGC Youth Program, a recognition as an outstanding team at the China Internet Audiovisual Conference AI Creation Competition, and a bronze medal at the Shanghai International Public Service Advertising Competition. Works have been selected for CCTV's AI National Trend Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, and have been featured at the Cannes Film Festival, the Onilos Film Awards, the New York International Film Awards, the Academic Film Week, the Hainan Island International Film Festival's Conch AI Unit, the Seoul International AI Film Festival, the Golden Swallow Award at the Asian Art Film Festival, the Berlin Independent Film Festival, the Silicon Valley AI Film Festival, the Tammizagam International Film Festival, the Bakunawa Festival and other festivals.
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Best AI Feature
About “Yellow Era”
"Yellow Age" is a social allegory disguised as science fiction. The film uses a high-concept design and the "art of misdirection" to explore humanity's weaknesses. Yellow initially represents hope and redemption before becoming a cosmic visual metaphor. The extreme use of saturated yellow against a black-and-white world represents humanity's greed, blind obedience, and self-destructive tendencies when facing the unknown. Higher-dimensional beings introduce a can of "paint", while humanity's internal strife and fanaticism complete its own destruction.
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