Agentic Cinema: The Blockbuster Hackathon

The challenge

Build a functional agent powered by Gemini and Google Cloud Agent Builder that integrates a Partner Entity's product or MCP to power a real media & entertainment workflow.

Partners:

• IBM
• Grafana
• Parallel
• Clickhouse
• Replit

Submission Requirements

• Include a URL to the hosted Project
• The 3-Minute Trailer (Demo Video): a demo video showing your project/agent functioning as built — not a cinematic trailer. Upload to YouTube or Vimeo, make it publicly visible, and make sure it's in English or includes English subtitles.
• Include a URL to your open-source code repository for judging and testing. It must contain all source code, assets, and instructions needed to run, and must demonstrate actual runtime use of Google Cloud and your chosen Partner's service (imported and called in code, not just named in the README).
• The repository must be public and include a complete open source license file. This license should be detectable and visible at the top of the repository page (in the About section).
• Select which partner track you'll be submitting to.
• Your completed Devpost submission form.
• Read the full Official Rules for detailed partner track requirements and eligibility terms.

Judging Criteria

• Technological Implementation How well is the project built, and how effectively does it use Google Cloud and the Partner services as part of the solution?
• Design Does the project deliver a complete, coherent product experience not just a technical proof of concept?
• Potential Impact Does the project make a credible, specific case for solving a real problem for a real audience and does the solution actually address it based on what's demonstrated?
• Quality of the Idea Is this a creative, non-obvious use of Google Cloud and the Partner services and does the team show genuine understanding of the problem space?

Prizes

$75,000 in prizes across five partner tracks (IBM, Grafana, Parallel, Clickhouse, Replit).

Each track has:

• 1st Place: $7,500 cash + opportunity for social media promotion
• 2nd Place: $4,500 cash
• 3rd Place: $3,000 cash