This pass is for Sunday’s New York Sci-Fi Festival. The screenings will all be Livestream. You will get a link after purchasing this pass that will take you to our Livestream platform from where all movies and Q&A will be screened. All live streams have a free VOD good for a week after the screening
This pass is for both Friday and Sunday's Livestream screenings of the festival. If you want to attend the NYC in person and also watch some of Friday’s and Sunday’s Films then we recommend you buy the FULL FESTIVAL PASS below.
This pass covers ALL LIVESTREAM and IN-PERSON screenings
SUNDAY, MAY 15, 2022
LIVESTREAM PROGRAM
11:AM- 1:15 PM
OUR BRAVE NEW WORLD
SHORT FILM BLOCK 1
Lockdown - The Doctor Who Fans' Survival Guide, 2021
Director Roger Christopher Stevens
United Kingdom, 46 min
During the Covid-19 pandemic, a call went out to fans of the BBC tv science fiction series DOCTOR WHO to film personal videos of how they coped with being confined in their homes for months on end. Shot on mobile phones, laptops, tablets, and cameras …anything they could lay their hands on … the following film is the result.
Remote Viewing, 2021
Director Jordu Schell
United States, 13 min
A genetic experiment goes wrong, potentially creating a disaster for humankind
Populace, 2015
Director Aaron Bevan Bailey
United Kingdom, 14 min
Populace is a dystopian SCI-FI thriller from Aaron Bevan Bailey, written by Dan Horrigan. It follows a day in the life of John, a clone, who works for the sinister Orwellian Populace corporation. His world is turned upside down when he is forced to choose between the reason he was created and the woman he loves.
Beta Test, 2016
Directors Joel Makar, Kenton Evenson
Canada, 15 min
BETA TEST is a science fiction thriller that takes Eric Holt into a simulated world in order to relieve him of the stresses of his everyday life. When Eric enters the simulation, he relives some of his favorite memories from the past. However, complications in the program occur and Eric must face a memory he has been trying to bury.
i.am.real, 2019
Director Eddie Frente
United States, 9 min
In the not-so-distant future a newly designed AI living among humans questions the very idea of what is real.
Zero One Zero, 2021
Director Graham High
United States, 13 min
Looking to boost his confidence, Chuck tries a new meditation technique and manifests a night he won't forget.
INVASION, 2021
Director Joann Perez-Moya
United States, 6 min
A Film Noir horror. An Alien Detective hunts down a suspected Scientist trying to prove Aliens exist and possibly reveal their impending plan to invade earth. His job—stop him before he can warn mankind.
Atlas- Chapter One, 2021
Director Ayman Chaudhry
United Kingdom , 10 min
AN ORIGINAL SCI-FI SERIES. Technology has replaced currency. Wealth has replaced humanity. When a rebel cell interrogates a corrupt politician, they uncover a secret more terrifying than anything they could have imagined
Q&A WITH THE DIRECTORS AFTER THE SCREENING
1:15- 3:00pm
TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANITY
SHORT FILM BLOCK 2
The Dark Odyssey, 2021
Director Michael Lavine
United States 9 min
A brave captain and his faithful mate transport a captive warrior, who holds The Inventory of The Mind, across the interstellar line. When their ship is forced to navigate an asteroid field, their mission is jeopardized.
Stream, 2021
Director Britt Couch in Best Science Fiction Short
United States, 12 min
A heartbroken man pays a washed-up doctor to insert him into the dangerous illegal Virtual Reality system called streaming.
Immortal Game, 2021
Director John Freeman
United States, 11 min
Early in the 21st Century, Man has developed the technology to create humanoid androids with short, fixed lifespans. Ema returns to Earth with the hope of extending her lifespan. After discovering her creator has been murdered, she meets a new visionary poised to continue the fateful experiments.
EP, 2021
Director Pat Campo
United States, 10 min
(Pilot Episode) An AI robot and its owner make a living by hacking into computers and stealing important electronic files. During their usual escapade, they stumble upon a hard drive containing EP. But what is EP?
G-Rail, 2021
Director Javier Merono
Spain, 10min
G-Rail is a modern adaptation of the Arthurian myth of the Grail. Perceval Gallois attends a meeting where Gawain Hawk introduces him to a plan to save Arthur´s life. This leads him on an extreme and fantastic trip to endure G-forces, transcend the limits of human knowledge and discover the secret of the Grail.
The Stamp Collector, 2020
Director Luke Momo
United States, 9 min
A high-tech thief comes home from the scene of a crime, reeling with guilt and misbegotten plans. How will his artificially-intelligent assistant, designed to help commit crimes, respond to his programmer's sudden change of heart? interactive thriller performed live, just for you, over the course of a phone call.
Transfert, 2020
Director Jonathan Degrelle
France, 14 min
1967: IV Reich. The Germans won the war. ISAAC, a survivor of the concentration camps, is sent by Max, a Nazi officer, in the middle of the Second World War to recover a strange mechanism. But during his quest, he will be facing his worst nightmare
The Prospector, 2020
Director Wade Chitwood
United States, 14 min
A lone man searches for his place in the Universe. This journey takes the prospector to a place where he has to look directly at his soul and decide what he is willing to sacrifice to achieve his ambitions.
Q&A WITH THE DIRECTORS AFTER THE SCREENING
3:15- 5:45pm
Sci-FI Feature Presentation
Block 3
The Stars My Destination, 2018
Director Keishi Suenaga
Japan, 135 min.
A retired Russian-Japanese soldier Eiji Onodera (Keishi Suenaga) was going to his hometown in Japan. But on his way, he was caught and given a new mission by his ex-colleague Captain Vadim Dadikov (Gohnosuke Tokuda). Onodera and his father would never be free unless he completes the secret mission. He and the Master Sergeant Zinaida Zasyekina (Satoko Enmei) go to Hokkaido to monitor an ex-officer of Japan’s Ground Self-Defense Force, Toshio Honda (Taiyo Sawa). Honda has killed 27 people including his colleagues and is hiding in a mountain with a mysterious beauty, Risa (Riho Yoshioka)
5:45pm- 7:45pm
BEST OF VISIONARY AND SUPERNATURAL SCI-FI
BLOCK 4
The Penny Dropped, 2016
Director A D Cooper
United Kingdom, 6 min
A desperate woman seeks help from an unlikely source in a dark place. Neither of them realizes that their futures will be decided by the flip of a coin.
The Cabin, 2021
Director Bartosz Tobola
Poland 20 min Julka and Marek visit a mountain cabin to rest, but at the beginning of their journey, things get complicated as the violin, the forest, Venus and Schrodinger's Cat come to the fore. The cabin has its secrets and so do the characters as the tension grows the deeper they walk into the forest.
Adam In Aeternum, 2020
Director Pedro Jaen R.
Spain, 15 min
An exhausted traveler reaches the border of the world chasing his destiny: to face the demon that caused his misfortune.
Parallelism , 2021
Director Marco Bolognesi
Italy, 16 min
In terms of Mind Philosophy, Parallelism is a mind-body interaction dualist theory affirming that mental and physical events take place on a parallel course of existence, and interact with each other in a not casual way.
Mercury XX , 2021
Director Miriam Kuhlmann
Germany 7 min
Mercury XX is a science fiction short film that tells the story of an all-female space mission to draw the first breath on another planet. After an astronauts, decade-long journey across the stars accompanied only by her spaceship AI she becomes conflicted with the realization of having to leave her sole friend behind or taking this next breath for humankind
Retreat, 2020
Director Joeri Verbesselt
Belgium, 5 min
A futuristic vision of a world on the brink of environmental meltdown, where a violent confrontation between the police and demonstrators, pollution and nature, is performed in a parallel reality
Pale Blue Dot: A Tale of Two Stargazers, 2021
Director Matteo Scarfo
Italy, 18 min
A female form is sent to investigate a planet to see if it can be inhabitable, and upon crash landing, her directive is revealed as being a sacrifice for the exploration against her will. She is discovered by a robotic presence who explains that she is on Earth and that humans have been here before. Two lost souls, a direct result of human interference, make their own destiny against all odds.
Obsolete Model, 2019
Director Warren Difranco Hsu
United States, 12 min
The future beckons
8:00pm-9:15pm
The Final Equation, 2021 Remastered/ Director’s Cut
Director DUA
US, 70 min
Through a series of String equations, physicist Jack Smith begins to realize Einstein's Dream of a Unified Field Theory. When his calculations accidentally unlock a door between realities and start to unravel the fabric of his existence, Jack is forced to make a choice between science and faith.