Sept 25 · Los AngelesThe Gifted won the grand prize. The film gets made.Invest in the winner →

Future Vision XPRIZE · Official Selection 2026

The Top 65

Innovation shows up first as a story. So with XPRIZE, Google, and Range, we put $3.5M behind filmmakers who can show a future worth building. More than 2,500 films came in.

On September 25 the Top 5 screened live in Los Angeles, and The Gifted by Jeff Synthesized took the grand prize. The film goes into production with Range Media Partners, and you can invest before it's made.

$3.5M in prizes · 2,500+ submissions · 65 official selections · Grand Prize Winner: The Gifted

The Finalists

Decided live at Moonshots LIVE · Sept 25

The Runners-Up

Five more the judges couldn't put down

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2:22

The Cloud Racer

Joe Sill

Nature & Climate · Cities

3:15

Slingshot

Hal Watmough

Space · Robotics

3:15

Somewhere Past Midnight

Felix Roumagnac

Consciousness · Connection

2:46

The Thorne Protocol

J. Ryan Williams

Energy · AI

3:15

Nobody Dies on Mars

Verena Puhm

Space · Connection · First Contact

3:15

The Lightship

Akina Yanagi

AI · Connection

3:10

D.M.S. — The Empty Seat

Gentoku Yamada

3:15

EDEN CODE

Orsolya Petrilla

Consciousness · Biotech

3:15

Aipotu

Adam Freise

Space · Connection

3:00

VOYAGER 7

KARIM YOUSSEF

Space · AI · First Contact

3:15

Veil of Maya

Adrian Daniel Botnariu

AI · Consciousness

2:09

After Eternity

Gabriel Garcia

Longevity · Space · Connection

2:29

AWAKEN WILDER

Randy Tahtinen

Energy · Consciousness · Space

2:41

Carriers of Earth

Cynthia Bahati Gentry

Nature & Climate · Biotech · AI

3:16

The Gifted

Jeff Synthesized

AI · Memory · Connection

2:33

To Dream Upon A Sun

Bruna Segarra

Energy · Consciousness

2:38

Eon

Pablo Fernandez Eyre

Space · Connection

3:16

ONE MINUTE (Sci-Fi Short Film)

Dylan Bradshaw

Memory · Biotech · Connection

1:43

The Generated Boy

Nikita Guks

AI · Connection

3:07

The Watcher - AI Trailer (4K) for

Steven Liszka

Energy · Space

3:16

AFTER THE STARS (Official Trailer)

Eliott Mogenet

Longevity · Memory · Connection

3:16

LOST TIME

Benjamin Hickernell

Nature & Climate · Energy

3:09

ONEIROVATIS — 3510N: DREAMNAUT

Dimitrios Tsagkalidis

Consciousness · Space

3:15

SENTI

Isen Robbins

AI · Consciousness

3:16

The Last Generation to Die - XPRIZE Submission

Tim Maupin

Longevity · Biotech

3:10

PROVENANCE

Chris Winterton

Memory · Biotech · Connection

3:15

ROCK RIDER

Christof Vonbank

Space · First Contact

2:42

SYNAPSE

Siddharth Kumar

Consciousness · AI · Connection

3:00

TAIRYO THE MOVIE

Kazuki Sato

Oceans · Connection

The Last Archeologist

Ryan Moore

Memory · Connection

3:16

TOKAMak

Sonny Vadgama

Energy · AI · Connection

2:28

Vimana

Faible Media

First Contact · Space

3:10

KIRO – Learning to Stay

Esteban Díaz Baena

Robotics · Space · Connection

3:16

COPERNICUS CONCEPT

Patrick Daihui Cheh

AI · Connection

3:16

Liberator

Aji B

AI

3:03

Natural Relations

Bethany Edgoose

AI · Nature & Climate · Connection

3:15

The Calling

Raffi Asdourian

AI · Connection

3:15

The Last Pilot

Armen Saribekyan

Space · AI · Robotics

3:09

The Listening Chamber

Faizan Kareem

Oceans · AI · Connection

3:16

The Wind Before the Name

Mark Wachholz

AI · Nature & Climate · First Contact

3:17

Xanadu: Faster Than Light

Cory Strassburger

Space · First Contact

3:15

SALVAGE

Maninder Chana

Robotics · Connection

3:11

The Pattern

Theodore Zhang

Oceans · AI · Connection

3:16

The Prize

Aristomenis Tsirbas

Space

Author

Ekaterina Graf

3:15

Demiurgos

Brian Paul

Space · Connection

2:01

Epoch

andy hill

2:13

Fefu

Elijah Allan-Blitz

AI · Nature & Climate · Connection

3:17

IMAGINE CITY / BLANK CITY

Martín Noble

AI · Cities

2:32

Inkom

Bizarre Bunny

AI · Biotech

3:00

The Abundance Protocol

Akira Chan

Education · Memory

3:09

Prime Astra

Umesh Patil

Consciousness · Space · Connection

3:06

The Silence Between Whales

John Nelson

Oceans · Space · Connection

3:15

The Last Generation

Rhys Wilson

AI · Biotech · Connection

3:16

The Forever Machine

Matthew Brent Umbarger

Longevity · Connection

3:16

The Montague Odyssey

Jared Franks

AI · Nature & Climate · Cities

2:46

Intergalactic Geographic

Oliver M Warden

Space

3:14

Bring Back Bruce

Andreas Kyprianou

Robotics · Connection

3:16

BEYOND

Tom Kinnear

Space · Connection

2:51

Love After Easy

Daniel Eckler

AI · Connection

3:02

Remnants

Myles Lam

Education · Robotics · Connection

3:14

Fraternité

David Moreno Belmonte

AI · Connection

3:16

Museum of Impossible Things

Derya-Daniel Evrenkaya

Cities · Nature & Climate · Connection

3:16

THE SHORE

Pierre Davezac

Energy · Cities

2:52

See You in a Hundred Years

Jeffrey Shieh

2026 Grand Prize Winner

The Gifted gets made. You can own a piece of it.

The Gifted by Jeff Synthesized won the Future Vision XPRIZE live at Moonshots LIVE on September 25 and goes into production with Range Media Partners. Investment is open through Republic Film, the SEC-licensed platform.

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