ATL EXP - The Atlanta Immersion Awards
2025 Award Winning Experimental Projects
ATL EXP honors experimental films and creators who break things on purpose. This is Atlanta’s festival for experimental cinema, AI filmmaking, digital art and new ideas that don’t fit anywhere else. We look for work that bends form, rewrites rules and uses film or technology in ways that feel new. These awards recognize the strongest experimental projects of the year and the artists who made them. If your film pushes boundaries and follows its own logic, ATL EXP is where it belongs.
2025 Awards
Atlanta Immersion Awards
Winner of the 2025 ATL EXP - Atlanta Immersion Awards
BEST AI FILM
Top overall award for excellence in AI filmmaking.
Nominees:
The Philadelphia Project - Jesse Torres - WINNER
QUEEN 1 - Ryan Patterson
The Slug - Chen Tang
Vibe Coding - Brandon James
BEST NARRATIVE
Recognizes strong storytelling, structure, and emotional impact.
Nominees:
Fetch - Tim Schauer
The Abyss - Andres Aloi
The Secret of the Mountain Hut - Pasquale de Sapio
The Slug - Chen Tang - WINNER
MINDBENDER AWARD
Given to the most surreal, experimental, terrifying, or unforgettable AI film.
Nominees:
I'm Happy Again - Charles Dillon Ward
Milk - Athanasios Ntavlouros - WINNER
The Dance of the Nain Rouge - Eric Millikin
The Wild - Jakob Söe-Pedersen
AI INNOVATION AWARD
Honors the most creative or groundbreaking use of AI tools in the filmmaking process.
Nominees:
Evolution - Eliott Hourlier
Project 2029 - James Jones - WINNER
The Ballad of Splodey the Whale - Mark R. Largent
Unbound Dreams - Kwaku Opoku Sarpong-Agyeman, Kiana Stringfield
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Selected by viewers during the festival.
The Philadelphia Project - Jesse Torres - WINNER
Congratulations to all of the talented creators in 2025