{"id":151693,"date":"2026-08-26T08:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/151693\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:44:08","slug":"google-deepmind-kling-ai-alibaba-join-busans-innoasia-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/151693\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind, Kling AI & Alibaba Join Busan’s InnoAsia Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tMajor tech companies including Google<\/a> DeepMind, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kling AI<\/a> and Alibaba<\/a> Group have signed up to participate in the InnoAsia program of this year\u2019s Asian Contents & Film Market (ACFM<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe official market of Busan<\/a> International Film Festival, ACFM says it is expanding its scope around the vision of \u201can innovative ecosystem in which cinema and technology co-evolve.\u201d InnoAsia aims to connect storytelling with emerging technologies, including AI and the rapidly growing microdrama ecosystem.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAs part of this, ACFM is partnering with global marketing and advertising agency Innocean to co-host the \u2018Cinema by Brand 2026\u2019 competition, with the Producers Guild of Korea (PGK) responsible for the selection process and production supervision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tCinema by Brand is described as \u201can innovative investment and production support platform that connects client brands with film creators from worldwide to develop and produce new film content.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThis year, the competition is seeking 20-minute short film projects featuring Hanwha Group\u2019s \u2018Space Solar Power\u2019. The first-round selections will be announced in early September, followed by final pitching in late September, with final selections announced during ACFM.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tEach selected project will receive production funding, and the selected projects will then be produced and presented to audiences in Korea and worldwide. A session during the market will also explore the significance and potential of branded content in the content business.<\/p>\n

\n\tMeanwhile, in addition to Google, Kling AI and Alibaba, other AI-driven tech companies attending InnoAsia will include BytePlus, Netflix\u2019s VFX studio Eyeline Studios, MegazoneCloud, OPIM Digital, the Korean Film Archive\u2019s VFX asset trading platform i.AM, and InShorts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAI-driven content production companies joining the program include France-based AI\/XR content studio Atlas V, Korea\u2019s Mateo AI Studio, MBC C&I, Climax Studio, For Entertainment, K-Dragon and MooAm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tMicrodrama platforms Mango TV, FlickReels and Vigloo have also confirmed their participation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tKling AI will co-host \u2018New Cinematic Possibilities: Reimagining Filmmaking with Kling AI\u2019 and \u2018Kling AI Networking Reception: From Production Needs Across Asia to Industry Partnerships\u2019 with ACFM.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAWS and MegazoneCloud will launch the \u2018AWS Awards\u2019, linked to startup pitching. Winning companies will be selected following a PoC process and receive AWS cloud vouchers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tInnoAsia will also continue its partnerships with international markets, including Berlin film festival\u2019s European Film Market (EFM). Lux AI, an EFM-participating startup developing an intelligent lighting solution for virtual production, and Tanja Meissner, Director Berlinale Pro and EFM, are set to visit Busan.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThrough collaboration with TAICCA School under the Taiwan Creative Content Agency, imCore, a startup developing an AI solution to improve VFX production efficiency, will also participate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tACFM and InnoAsia 2026 are taking place October 10-13 at the BEXO exhibition centre, during Busan International Film Festival, which is running October 6-15.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major tech companies including Google DeepMind, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Kling AI and Alibaba Group have signed up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74041,24,2477,74037,132,1429,11196],"class_list":["post-151693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-google","tag-acfm","tag-ai","tag-alibaba","tag-busan","tag-google","tag-google-ai","tag-kling-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}