No certificate. Still a cinema screening.
A film made with AI rarely has a BBFC certificate. Invite your own audience and you need no rating at all — classification is for screenings open to the public or run for profit. When yours is one of those, the local authority can rate it, often for a fraction of the BBFC's cost. This page is both routes.
What you get
The rating, not the screen
BBFC certification starts around £610, which is hard to justify for one screening. A local council can classify the same film for its own area: free in some, a flat fee or a few pounds a minute in others. The wizard works out which applies to you.
Learn moreEvery cinema in Great Britain, mapped to its council
The venue decides the licensing authority, so the directory records which council covers each cinema. Pick where you want to screen and the application it needs follows from that.
Learn moreDates worked backwards
Councils take one to four months. Give the pack your screening date and it returns the day the application has to be sent, the last date it could still land, and the fee to expect.
Learn moreContent notes a committee will ask about
Generated footage produces things a councillor will stop on. The application drafts the content notes with timestamps and context, which is the part refusals usually turn on.
Disclosure that survives a question
Submissions carry AI-tools disclosure per contributor, so when a venue, a funder or a council asks how the film was made, the answer already exists in a form you can show them.
What it looks like
- 01A generated short with no certificate, classified 15 by the council covering the venue, screening in a cinema six weeks later.
- 02A programme of AI shorts from twelve makers, stitched into one reel and classified once rather than twelve times.
- 03A festival submission run and a hometown cinema screening from the same film and the same set of content notes.