Stories shape our future. Story tellers manifest our destiny. Someone, somewhere, is writing an epic screenplay that is more Star Trek, than Terminator. A vision of a compelling and optimistic tomorrow that will shape humanity’s next few decades. The cell phone, the internet, humanoid robots, self-driving cars, voice assistants, and Starships were all imagined in science fiction before they were built by engineers. Stories are blueprints. Question: What if we asked storytellers around the world to envision an epic and compelling future for humanity, and then funded them to produce that film? What if we could flood the world with positive visions of the future, rather than dystopian predictions? Announcing the Future Vision XPRIZE 🧵

The Future Vision XPRIZE is a global competition with $3.5M+ in prize funding challenging creators anywhere on Earth to imagine hopeful, technology-forward futures worth building toward. Not warnings. Blueprints. Futures that inspire us to go boldly.

Humanity needs hope. It’s time to lean into our greatest superpower: imagination. The Future Vision XPRIZE is an opportunity to explore that “what if” of possibility, offering a launchpad for positive visions of tomorrow, new perspectives. While some fear an uncertain future they don’t understand, we aim to offer them clarity on what might be. This XPRIZE is a global invitation for story tellers to light the way toward a future worth building.

THE PRIZE Here's how it works: Create a 3-minute sci-fi trailer or film-short depicting an optimistic, technology-forward future. Any format. Any tools — Live action, animation, AI, mixed media. Anyone on Earth can enter. One requirement: show us a future we actually want to live in. What is your modern-day version of Star Trek?

WHAT'S AT STAKE 🏆 Grand Prize: $2M+ in production funding + $100K cash. The winning vision gets developed into a full feature film with Hollywood producers attached. 4 Runners-Up: $100K cash each, and support fully developing your film script. Total prize pool: $3.5M+ — the largest sci-fi film competitions on Earth.

Submissions open now (March 9th) → Deadline: August 15, 2026 5 Finalists will be flown out to Los Angeles for the Moonshot Gathering in Los Angeles on September 25, 2026 to pitch to a panel of judges — in front of 1,000+ entrepreneurs, builders, and creators. Winner announced on stage.

. @xprize is a 501(c)(3) that designs and launches large-scale incentive competitions to drive breakthroughs for the benefit of humanity. Its first competition — the $10 million Ansari XPRIZE for private spaceflight — helped launch what is now the $596 billion commercial space industry. Since then, XPRIZE has launched 30 competitions across 173 countries, turning $519 million in prize capital into $31 billion in measurable impact across areas like carbon removal, water scarcity, wildfire detection, and healthspan. The Future Vision XPRIZE is the first competition to apply this proven model to entertainment and storytelling.

THE PARTNERS This isn't just a competition. We’re bringing together partners to help make what you imagine possible. 🔹 @Google — Creative technology partner providing technical and production support to the grand prize winner. 🔹 Range Media Partners — Leading cultural capital firm in Hollywood, representing top talent and producing high-end content, including helping develop the winning submission into a feature film. 🔹 Rod Roddenberry — Son of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry. Judge and advisor. Carrying forward the legacy that started all of this.

WHO THIS IS FOR If you're a filmmaker, animator, writer, AI artist, VFX creator, game designer, scientist or engineer playing with a brilliant and hopeful vision of the future, join us— this is for you! You don't need a studio. You don't need a budget. All you need is the passion and a vision of a future worth building.

INVEST We’ve partnered with the global investment platform @JoinRepublic to allow anyone to invest in the winning film and share in its profit potential. Imagine if you could have owned a stake in Star Trek before it became a global phenomenon? Imagine owning a piece of the film that created the technologies shaping our future?

THE BIGGER PICTURE Every technology you use today was someone's fiction first. Somewhere right now, a creator is imagining a future that doesn't exist yet — a technology, a world, a way of living that could change everything. We're not just funding a film competition. We're funding the world’s next R&D department. The storytellers.

You just read a thread about how science fiction becomes reality. Someone in your timeline is sitting on a vision that could change the world and doesn't know this exists yet. Share this. Be the reason they find it.

DONORS None of this happens without the people who believed in this mission before anyone else did. The founding donors of the Future Vision XPRIZE include: @JedMcCaleb Chairman, VAST @bhorowitz , a16z @balajis, The Network School Rod Roddenberry The Abundance Community (a group of 20 benefactors) They didn't fund a film competition. They funded the idea that stories are blueprints — and that the right one could change the trajectory of civilization.

THE SPONSORS And the companies who are powering the infrastructure behind this movement: 🔹 @salesforce 🔹 @XSOLLA 🔹 @ARKInvest Building the future takes more than a vision. It takes companies willing to put resources behind it. These did.