Announcing: $3.5M+ Future Vision XPRIZE
In a Nutshell
Martin Cooper, inventor of the mobile phone, drew inspiration from Star Trek props that became real-world innovations like iPads, video calls, and voice assistants, turning fiction into trillion-dollar industries. The Future Vision XPRIZE, backed by $3 million in prizes plus film financing from XPRIZE Foundation, Google, and media partners, challenges creators to produce a 3-minute-or-less trailer or short film depicting an exciting, hopeful vision of the future. This competition aims to provide humanity's greatest need—hope—by crowning a winning vision as the next blueprint for all.
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Martin Cooper, the man who invented the mobile phone, said he built it because he saw it on Star Trek. He saw Captain Kirk flip open a communicator and thought, "Hey, I can make that real." The iPad started as a prop on Star Trek 2. Video calls, Star Trek. Voice assistants, Star Trek again. Props became products. Fiction became multi-trillion dollar industries.
What's a vision of the future that excites you? What stories offer humanity a hopeful, compelling, and abundant vision of what's to come.
$3 million in prize money, plus millions in film financing to make your movie. Program in partnership with the X-Prize Foundation, Google, and ranged media partners, called the Future Vision X-Prize. One of the world's largest competitions to address humanity's greatest need, hope.
Create a trailer or short film, 3 minutes or less. Show your vision of the future. That vision could become the next blueprint for all of humanity.
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