OPEN CALL FOR ENTRIES TO THE 2025 NEW YORK SCI-FI FESTIVAL

NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS FOR OUR 2025 FESTIVAL!

The New York Science Fiction and Horror Film Festival proudly accepts entries on FilmFreeway, the world's #1 way to enter film festivals and creative contests.

DEADLINES FOR SUBMISSION

October 21, 2024

Opening Date

• January 25, 2025

  Earlybird Deadline

• May 1, 2025

  Regular Deadline

• July 25, 2025

  Late Deadline

• August 17, 2025

  Extended Deadline

• August 19, 2025

  Notification Date

• September 19 – 21, 2025

  Event Date

Winners of the 2024 New York Sci-Fi Festival

Best Science Fiction Feature- Red Earth

Best Supernatural Feature- The Coldness

Best Science Fiction Short in a Dramatic Setting - LifeQuest

Best Conspiracy Science Fiction Short - The BiodiverCity

Best Short Documentary - You, Forever

Best Animation Short - Sileo

Best Horror Short - Dear Elf on the Shelf

Best Dark Fantasy Short - ADA

Best Trailer - Wisper

Best Music Video - The PanHarmonion Chronicles

Best VR - Asteroid Quest

Best Feature Sci-Fi Screenplay - Alpha Chase

Best Feature Supernatural Screenplay - Restoration

Best Graphic Novel - Halloween Girl Book 1

Best World Building Sci-Fi Screenplay - Inversion

Best Sci-Fi Short Screenplay - I/O (Input-Output)

Best Supernatural Short Screenplay - Sight Specific

THE NEW YORK SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

STUART CINEMA AND CAFE

79 West St, Brooklyn, NY 11222

Film Programming

ALL FILM BLOCKS ARE $15

ALL DAY FESTIVAL PASSES ARE SOLD OUT!!

TICKETS FOR BLOCKS 1, 3 AND 4 ARE STILL AVAILABLE

THE DARK SIDE OF EDEN 

200pm-400pm 

Wisper, Trailer

Director Russ Emanuel 

United States. 1 minute 

In June 2016, a loving family was found shot to death at their suburban home in Northern New Jersey, and discovered by father and husband Josiah Wisper - a brash businessman who owned bars, restaurants and real estate in Harlem, New York. 

Everything Dies Out Here, 2023 

Directors Cian and Sean Mallers

US, 10 min 

In a barren, oil-soaked wasteland after global catastrophe, a man clings to the last flower on Earth. As danger mounts from unforeseen forces, his connection to the flower proves a window to the past. 

You, Forever, 2024 

Director Brenda Kovrig  

Canada, 14 min 

You, Forever is a short hybrid film that incorporates documentary and dark comedy fantasy fiction. Robert Ettinger, 'the father of cryonics,' speaks of his life’s work while his 'patients' experience an unnatural existence in suspended animation. 

LifeQuest, 2023 

Director Richard Lounello  

United States, 25 min 

A young physicist lives out his life in search of his greatest scientific discovery and finds one extraordinary truth. 

The BiodiverCity, 2024 

Director Masataka Ishizaki  

United States, 11 minutes 

2035, future’s story. we people finally live in one big area due to the biodiversity program which humanity must stay away from nature for the environmental treatment. Nora thinks about Tree because she never saw it. So she decides to go outside to see it with Eric. 

Source Code, 2021 

Director Mark Kiefer  

United States, 17 min 

The year is 2065. Captain John Galatin's loss of focus cost lives on a remote-controlled battlefield. He has been ordered to see the compound's psychiatrist who will assess his continued fitness for duty. 

Jackpot, 2023 

Director Chance Thomas Garcia 

United States, 9 min 

A father, mother and son gather in front of the television set to cast their votes and watch the Society for Population Control’s nightly lottery. 

The Elsewhere Machine , 2023 

Director Jay Yeomans  

United Kingdom, 12 min 

A filmmaker travels to 'the underneath' where he begins to contemplate a Sc-Fi movie; leaving for New Tokyo he meets a woman who claims to have met him before, & who gifts him a device to restore memories; he returns to his homeland where revelations ensue 

Dear Elf on the Shelf, 2024 

Director Tor Martin Norvik  

Norway , 2 min 

"Dear Elf on the Shelf" weaves a captivating tale of a young girl's emotional journey, intertwining reality with the magical lore of the Elf on the Shelf. As the holiday season envelops her home in joy and cheer, nine-year-old Emily encounters her family's Elf on the Shelf in an unexpected light, sparking a series of mysterious events. 

Conversion of the Atheist, 2023                                        

Director Michael Ambrosino 

United States, 10 min 

Two Mormon boys with a dark secret knock on an atheist woman's door. 

The Space Between Us, 2023 

Director Tim Holmes  

United States, 6 min 

An animated short film It tells the story of a forlorn astronaut heading into space after losing the great love of his life; on a journey in which nothing goes as ground control would have wished.

Q&A with Filmmakers after the Screening 

FUTURE SHOCK BLOCK SOLD OUT!

FUTURE SHOCK 

430pm- 630pm 

Magical Doomsday HorseGirls of the Apocalypse, 2024 

Directors Abbie Bacilla, Andrea Schmitz  

United States, 2min 

Fed up with the state of the world, these magical girls decide to take things into their own hands. 

Moonskin Fever, 2022 

Directors Hannah Bisewski, Tara Elliott  

United States, 17 min 

A near-future winter on a remote New England Island: as the economy and population wanes and locals grow desperate to survive, lovers Josette and Anna discover an intoxicating substance that could mean their salvation, and hatch a plan of escape. 

Neon Vowels, 2023 

Director Sergio Caballero  

United States, 11 min     

A service robot operating a taco stand learns, with the help of a Navajo elder, that it is mucho más more than just a dumbwaiter. 

Reformat, 2022 

Director Jesse Pickett 

Canada, 16 min 

After the body of an AI student is found on school grounds, an investigation into the last 7 people who interacted with the student takes place. 

Gum Garden, 2023                        

Director Adriana Guevara  

United States, 8 min 

Dedicating his life to researching and discovering the oddities in his dental profession, Dr. Agrait stumbles upon a patient with a peculiar gum disorder. 

JINX, 2023 

Director Maya Zaleski  

United States, 20min 

JINX follows a young woman’s descent down a path of obsession and paranoia. When Jordan's estranged grandmother dies, she is haunted by visions of the occult practices that stained her childhood. 

The Time Sentinel, 2024

Director Aldo Romero

US, 4 min

An ex-marine suffering from PTSD comes to believe when he becomes a time-

traveling superhero when he dreams.

CHASKA, 2024

Director Liz Guarracino and John Moran

United States, 16 min

A girl curious about her family innocently submits her DNA to Lineage Industries, the leading Ancestral Investigators in the World. Her blood type, on a secret watch list since the 40’s, is red flagged, and soon CHASKA will find herself imprisoned and experimented on for reasons she is unaware. 

Sileo, 2023 

Director Demeter Lorant  

Hungary. 8 minutes 

A robot after working for years in a factory and being repaired and replaced bit by bit realizes that he doesn't want to loose his identity and sets out to find his creator. 

ADA, 2023 

Director Anaïs Vachez 

France, 16 min 

Ada, an eight-year-old girl, witnesses the ongoing tensions between her parents. One evening, a particularly heated argument breaks out 

In Your Dreams , 2022 

Director Mike Krohn  

United States, 4 min 

In the future, a sentient robot finds that his dreams intrude on his waking life. 

Operators , 2023 

Director Andy Zou 

United States, 6 min 

Two-night shift 911 operators try their best to hold things together during an alien invasion 

Powerline

Director Roman Vlasov

US, 2 min

"Powerline" invites viewers on an exploration into the depths of the human psyche through the perspective of its physical carrier—electricity, as the universal energy that binds us all.

 The Panharmonion Chronicles: Times of London, 2022 

Director Henry Chebaane  

United Kingdom 3 min  

The video was written and shot as a short film teaser, introducing the creator of the story as a character inside his own fictional universe, which happens to exists also in our own reality.
 

Q&A with Filmmakers after the Screening 

700pm- 830pm 

FEATURE PRESENTATION 

The Coldness , 2024 

Director Gustavo Sampaio 

US, 75 min 

Nick Polito a retired Jersey City homicide detective with a haunted past comes to Los Angeles in search of answers to a recent gruesome death that is shockingly like a case that has been an obsession for him since 1999. Determined to find out what happened, Nick connects with his former partner and encounters a cast of characters that lead him steadily down a disturbing path into lethal occult darkness 

Q&A  with the Filmmaker after the Screening

 830pm- 1Opm 

FEATURE PRESENTATION 

Red Earth, 2022 

Director Georg Adrian Koszulinski 

United States, 66 minutes 

Red Earth imagines a world in the late Anthropocene, where large parts of Earth have become inhospitable to life. The story follows three generations of Martians, from the first colonists to the first expedition to return to an Earth decimated by interplanetary war. 

 Q&A  with the Filmmaker after the Screening

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