Pune, November 13, 2025: Pune-based creative Lead and New-media Artist Akshay Kakade wins Best Short Film & Award for his visually intense AI-animated film, Woven.

The film was screened on 7th November at the ADOS event hosted at the legendary Mack Sennett Studios in Hollywood, Los Angeles which was a highly competitive one-week creative sprint challenging artists to push the limits of open-source AI models.

The Arca Gidan Prize showcases extraordinary work made with open models to inspire others to advocate accessibility of powerful AI tools by everyone. By honoring innovators, the prize aims to foster a new renaissance of human creativity and beauty.

Woven is a 3-minute, emotionally resonant science-fiction that tells the story of an astronaut who discovers life on a planet. Drawing a

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