New York City  ·  Fall 2026

Le
Bonza

A one-day festival for everyone with a stake in what AI does to entertainment. Films. Art. Music. Honest conversations. The people making it and the people whose industries it's reshaping — in the same room.

200 people
1 day
NYC fall 2026
Inaugural edition
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What is this

AI is changing entertainment. Nobody agrees on what comes next.

The tools arrived fast. What people are making with them — some of it extraordinary, some of it unhinged, most of it somewhere in between — is being figured out in public, right now.

Le Bonza is the first time everyone who has skin in this game is in the same room.

"We watch it, listen to it, look at it — and then talk honestly about what we think it all means."

No awards. No jury. No curatorial agenda. The full range on display — from the things that took months of obsessive craft to the things that went viral because someone nailed a prompt.

Filmmakers next to label executives next to investors next to the people actually building the tools. One day. Fully curated room. Good conversations.

Programming

Five tracks. One day. No filler.

01
Film & Video
The full range. High-craft cinematic work alongside the stuff that went viral because someone got the prompt exactly right.
02
Gallery
Installed visual and generative works. Interactive pieces. The art that needs a room to exist in.
03
Music
AI-native sound and live performance. A sonic palette that didn't exist three years ago, taken seriously for the first time.
04
Conversations
Not panels. Direct, honest conversations between the people making work and the people whose industries it's reshaping.
05
Workshops
Hands-on sessions on how to actually work with these tools. Run by the people building them.
World Premiere

Le Bonza will host the world premiere of a significant AI-native work. Details announced soon.

The room

200 people.
Every one chosen.

Filmmakers
The directors and creators pushing AI tools into genuinely new territory.
Artists
Visual and generative artists whose work you've seen online and wondered how.
Musicians
The people making AI-native sound that's actually landing with audiences.
Label & studio
The executives who need to understand this before their boss asks them to explain it.
Investors
The people writing checks into the tools and the companies being built on top of them.
Builders
The teams at the platforms making all of this possible.
200 invited attendees
1 day, NYC
5 tracks
2026 inaugural