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VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Wondershare, a global leader in creative and productivity solutions, today announced the launch of the ToMoviee AI Spooktacular Video Challenge, a global user-generated content (UGC) campaign that invites creators to unleash their creativity and bring their Halloween imagination to life using ToMoviee AI, Wondershare's advanced AI video generation platform. The event runs until October 31, with winners to be announced on November 5.
Designed to inspire creativity and innovation on a global scale, the campaign reflects Wondershare's ongoing commitment to making advanced AI technologies accessible to everyone. By empowering creators to explore new forms of storytelling, Wondershare is not only celebrating the spirit of Halloween but also demonstrating how AI can redefine creative expression and bridge the gap between imagination and production. The initiative underscores Wondershare's broader vision to democratize creativity through intelligent tools that transform ideas into impactful visual stories.
Unlocking AI Creativity with New Halloween Effects
To celebrate the season, ToMoviee AI has released a range of exclusive Halloween AI effects and templates, including Boo-Boo Ghoul, Dark Gothic, Spooky Shift, and more. These effects are designed to help creators instantly add eerie atmospheres, supernatural motion elements, and cinematic Halloween vibes to their videos, making it easier than ever to produce immersive and visually captivating short films.
Participants may use any video editing software to enhance their submissions, and Wondershare recommends pairing ToMoviee AI with Wondershare Filmora for a seamless and efficient editing experience.
Rewarding Creativity and Engagement
The ToMoviee AI Spooktacular Video Challenge offers participants the opportunity to win annual memberships and cash rewards valued at over USD $2,000.
Additionally, participants whose videos achieve viral status can earn bonus cash rewards of up to USD $500 for videos exceeding one million views on a single social platform.
How to Participate
- Create: Produce an original Halloween-themed short video (15–60 seconds) using ToMoviee AI.
- Publish: Post the video publicly on platforms such as YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram.
- Tag: Include the hashtags #ToMovieeAI and #HalloweenToMoviee in the caption.
- Submit: Complete the submission form available on the official event page before the deadline.
Selected high-quality entries may also be featured or promoted across ToMoviee AI's official social media channels. For full prize details and participation guidelines, please visit the official event page.
About ToMoviee AI:
Developed by Wondershare, ToMoviee AI is an all-in-one AI creation platform for web and mobile that redefines how video content is produced. By combining text-to-video, image-to-video, AI motion control, and AI audio generation, the platform enables users to transform ideas into cinematic-quality videos with unprecedented speed and creative control.
ToMoviee AI bridges the gap between creativity and technology, allowing users of all skill levels — from independent creators to enterprise teams — to produce professional-grade content effortlessly. Its key capabilities include cinematic camera movements (such as push-in, orbit, and follow), AI Actors, video extension up to 300 seconds, hundreds of visual effects, and ready-made templates for instant storytelling. The platform also supports advanced AI image and audio generation, empowering creators to design visuals, soundscapes, and narration that elevate every project.
At GITEX GLOBAL 2025, ToMoviee AI attracted wide industry attention for its breakthrough in AI-generated motion realism and its ability to streamline complex video production workflows. By lowering technical barriers and enhancing creative output, ToMoviee AI is helping individuals and businesses worldwide embrace a new era of AI-powered storytelling.
About Wondershare:
Wondershare is a globally recognized software company founded in 2003, known for its innovative solutions in creativity and productivity. Driven by the mission "Creativity Simplified", Wondershare offers a range of tools, including Filmora, Virbo and SelfyzAI for video editing; PDFelement for document management; and EdrawMax, EdrawMind for diagramming. With over 2 billion cumulative active users across all products and a presence in over 200 countries and regions, Wondershare empowers the next generation of creators with intuitive software and trendy creative resources, continually expanding the possibilities of creativity worldwide.
VANCOUVER, BC, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Wondershare, a global leader in creative and productivity solutions, today announced the launch of the ToMoviee AI Spooktacular Video Challenge, a global user-generated content (UGC) campaign that invites creators to unleash their creativity and bring their Halloween imagination to life using ToMoviee AI, Wondershare's advanced AI video generation platform. The event runs until October 31, with winners to be announced on November 5.
Designed to inspire creativity and innovation on a global scale, the campaign reflects Wondershare's ongoing commitment to making advanced AI technologies accessible to everyone. By empowering creators to explore new forms of storytelling, Wondershare is not only celebrating the spirit of Halloween but also demonstrating how AI can redefine creative expression and bridge the gap between imagination and production. The initiative underscores Wondershare's broader vision to democratize creativity through intelligent tools that transform ideas into impactful visual stories.
Unlocking AI Creativity with New Halloween Effects
To celebrate the season, ToMoviee AI has released a range of exclusive Halloween AI effects and templates, including Boo-Boo Ghoul, Dark Gothic, Spooky Shift, and more. These effects are designed to help creators instantly add eerie atmospheres, supernatural motion elements, and cinematic Halloween vibes to their videos, making it easier than ever to produce immersive and visually captivating short films.
Participants may use any video editing software to enhance their submissions, and Wondershare recommends pairing ToMoviee AI with Wondershare Filmora for a seamless and efficient editing experience.
Rewarding Creativity and Engagement
The ToMoviee AI Spooktacular Video Challenge offers participants the opportunity to win annual memberships and cash rewards valued at over USD $2,000.
Additionally, participants whose videos achieve viral status can earn bonus cash rewards of up to USD $500 for videos exceeding one million views on a single social platform.
How to Participate
Selected high-quality entries may also be featured or promoted across ToMoviee AI's official social media channels. For full prize details and participation guidelines, please visit the official event page.
About ToMoviee AI:
Developed by Wondershare, ToMoviee AI is an all-in-one AI creation platform for web and mobile that redefines how video content is produced. By combining text-to-video, image-to-video, AI motion control, and AI audio generation, the platform enables users to transform ideas into cinematic-quality videos with unprecedented speed and creative control.
ToMoviee AI bridges the gap between creativity and technology, allowing users of all skill levels — from independent creators to enterprise teams — to produce professional-grade content effortlessly. Its key capabilities include cinematic camera movements (such as push-in, orbit, and follow), AI Actors, video extension up to 300 seconds, hundreds of visual effects, and ready-made templates for instant storytelling. The platform also supports advanced AI image and audio generation, empowering creators to design visuals, soundscapes, and narration that elevate every project.
At GITEX GLOBAL 2025, ToMoviee AI attracted wide industry attention for its breakthrough in AI-generated motion realism and its ability to streamline complex video production workflows. By lowering technical barriers and enhancing creative output, ToMoviee AI is helping individuals and businesses worldwide embrace a new era of AI-powered storytelling.
About Wondershare:
Wondershare is a globally recognized software company founded in 2003, known for its innovative solutions in creativity and productivity. Driven by the mission "Creativity Simplified", Wondershare offers a range of tools, including Filmora, Virbo and SelfyzAI for video editing; PDFelement for document management; and EdrawMax, EdrawMind for diagramming. With over 2 billion cumulative active users across all products and a presence in over 200 countries and regions, Wondershare empowers the next generation of creators with intuitive software and trendy creative resources, continually expanding the possibilities of creativity worldwide.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
Wondershare Launches the ToMoviee AI Spooktacular Video Challenge, Empowering Global Creators to Redefine Halloween Storytelling with AI
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Agreement Calls for Over 100,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) across 3 Years
GURUGRAM, India, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Varaha, a leading developer of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects with smallholder farmers across Asia, today announced a major offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India.
Varaha will develop 18 industrial gasification reactors that will operate for 15 years, with a total projected removal volume exceeding 2 million tonnes of CO₂ over the project's lifetime.
The project sources cotton stalks from smallholder farms in Maharashtra, India for use as the feedstock for biochar production. After harvest, these stalks are treated as waste biomass, and open-field burning is a common practice across the region's cotton belt. This project provides an alternative use for the stalks, converting them into biochar through Varaha's biomass gasification facilities and sequestering biogenic carbon for centuries.
Delivering Local Impact
Varaha's biochar project also delivers measurable benefits for farmers and communities:
- Improvement in Air Quality: The project mitigates the widespread burning of cotton crop residue, significantly reducing PM 2.5 pollutants that contribute to poor air quality. By providing an economically viable alternative to field burning, the initiative tackles a major source of seasonal air pollution.
- Promotion of Regenerative Agriculture: Farmers participating in the program adopt regenerative practices like crop residue mulching and biochar application to soils, improving soil health, water retention, and long-term agricultural productivity.
- Lifting Farmer Livelihoods: The program directly enhances the livelihoods of thousands of smallholder farmers, who receive payment both for contributing agricultural biomass and for implementing crop residue incorporation practices.
"This agreement demonstrates that high-integrity carbon removal can drive transformative co-benefits for communities and ecosystems," said Madhur Jain, Varaha CEO. "We're not just removing carbon—we're creating economic incentives for farmers to mitigate open burning of crop residues."
The project's first reactor will operate alongside Varaha's 52-acre cotton research farm in Maharashtra, where Varaha works directly with farmers to test sustainable practices, including soil application of biochar, under real-world conditions. With up to 18 total reactors funded across India's cotton belt through Microsoft's commitment, the focus remains clear: scaling quickly while putting farmers first.
Setting New Standards for Asian Carbon Markets
The agreement signals growing recognition of the region's potential for high-quality carbon removal projects. Biochar offers permanent carbon storage on geological timescales while supporting agricultural systems, making it one of the most promising pathways for durable carbon dioxide removal.
"This offtake agreement broadens the diversity of Microsoft's carbon removal portfolio with Varaha's biochar project design that is both scalable and durable. It represents a step forward in scaling biochar CDR growth in Asia and advancing co-benefits for farmers—improved soils, cleaner air, and shared economic opportunity," said Phil Goodman, program director, CDR at Microsoft.
The credits generated through the Varaha program meet rigorous standards for measurement, reporting, and verification, ensuring that each tonne represents genuine, permanent carbon removal.
About Varaha
Varaha is a leading developer of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects in Asia, with a mission of scaling smallholder farmer-led climate solutions to remove carbon from the atmosphere and strengthen rural livelihoods. Specializing in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, biochar, and enhanced rock weathering projects across South Asia, Varaha has pioneered a technology- and science-driven approach to carbon project development since its founding in 2022. Varaha is headquartered in Gurugram, India, and operates 20 carbon projects across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
Agreement Calls for Over 100,000 tonnes of Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) across 3 Years
GURUGRAM, India, Jan. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Varaha, a leading developer of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects with smallholder farmers across Asia, today announced a major offtake agreement with Microsoft for biochar carbon removal in India.
Varaha will develop 18 industrial gasification reactors that will operate for 15 years, with a total projected removal volume exceeding 2 million tonnes of CO₂ over the project's lifetime.
The project sources cotton stalks from smallholder farms in Maharashtra, India for use as the feedstock for biochar production. After harvest, these stalks are treated as waste biomass, and open-field burning is a common practice across the region's cotton belt. This project provides an alternative use for the stalks, converting them into biochar through Varaha's biomass gasification facilities and sequestering biogenic carbon for centuries.
Delivering Local Impact
Varaha's biochar project also delivers measurable benefits for farmers and communities:
- Improvement in Air Quality: The project mitigates the widespread burning of cotton crop residue, significantly reducing PM 2.5 pollutants that contribute to poor air quality. By providing an economically viable alternative to field burning, the initiative tackles a major source of seasonal air pollution.
- Promotion of Regenerative Agriculture: Farmers participating in the program adopt regenerative practices like crop residue mulching and biochar application to soils, improving soil health, water retention, and long-term agricultural productivity.
- Lifting Farmer Livelihoods: The program directly enhances the livelihoods of thousands of smallholder farmers, who receive payment both for contributing agricultural biomass and for implementing crop residue incorporation practices.
"This agreement demonstrates that high-integrity carbon removal can drive transformative co-benefits for communities and ecosystems," said Madhur Jain, Varaha CEO. "We're not just removing carbon—we're creating economic incentives for farmers to mitigate open burning of crop residues."
The project's first reactor will operate alongside Varaha's 52-acre cotton research farm in Maharashtra, where Varaha works directly with farmers to test sustainable practices, including soil application of biochar, under real-world conditions. With up to 18 total reactors funded across India's cotton belt through Microsoft's commitment, the focus remains clear: scaling quickly while putting farmers first.
Setting New Standards for Asian Carbon Markets
The agreement signals growing recognition of the region's potential for high-quality carbon removal projects. Biochar offers permanent carbon storage on geological timescales while supporting agricultural systems, making it one of the most promising pathways for durable carbon dioxide removal.
"This offtake agreement broadens the diversity of Microsoft's carbon removal portfolio with Varaha's biochar project design that is both scalable and durable. It represents a step forward in scaling biochar CDR growth in Asia and advancing co-benefits for farmers—improved soils, cleaner air, and shared economic opportunity," said Phil Goodman, program director, CDR at Microsoft.
The credits generated through the Varaha program meet rigorous standards for measurement, reporting, and verification, ensuring that each tonne represents genuine, permanent carbon removal.
About Varaha
Varaha is a leading developer of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) projects in Asia, with a mission of scaling smallholder farmer-led climate solutions to remove carbon from the atmosphere and strengthen rural livelihoods. Specializing in regenerative agriculture, agroforestry, biochar, and enhanced rock weathering projects across South Asia, Varaha has pioneered a technology- and science-driven approach to carbon project development since its founding in 2022. Varaha is headquartered in Gurugram, India, and operates 20 carbon projects across India, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
** The press release content is from PR Newswire. Bastille Post is not involved in its creation. **
Varaha Signs Carbon Removal Agreement with Microsoft
