Saturday, May 14, 2022
Producers Club
358 West 44th st
NYC
3 DAY FULL FESTIVAL PASS $80
ALL-DAY SATURDAY PASS FOR $60
ALL INDIVIDUAL SCREENINGS ARE $18
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10:30am- 12:15 PM
INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI
BLOCK 1
Enthusiasm Abounds, 2019-
Director Anthony Burkhalter
US, 2 min
Teaser trailer for the feature film based on the award-winning science fiction short, Enthusiasm Abounds.
Ryoko's Qubit Summer, 2018
Director Yuichi Kondo
Japan, 18 min
Quantum butterflies with Qubit wings, The same technology was used to create KANUMA, an experimental world of Artificial Intelligence inside a quantum computer. Then one day, AIs began using words unknown to man. Scientists saw this as a threat and decided to "delete" KANUMA
June, 2021
Director Dwayne Cameron
New Zealand, 15 min
Willow and David receive a serious diagnosis from their doctor and attempt to deal with the mundane as their world disintegrates in the following 24 hours. This one day in June for the couple holds raw despair, unleashing carnal natures but a transcendent occurrence offers them the hope of new life
Birth of the EMs, 2020
Director Samuel Clemens
United States, 4 min
The last of the human resistance needs your help: Here's how you defeat the EMs!
The Forgetting Device, 2021
Director Chris Remerowski
Canada, 11 min
A man begins to suspect that something strange and sinister is responsible for his recent memory loss. The Forgetting Device" stars Jarod Joseph one of the stars of the hit CW series "The 100". The film also features Anand Rajaram, from the hit PBS series "Odd Squad"
Memory of Man, 2021
Director Henri de Trogoff
France, 15 min
As Mankind went extinct, artificial Intelligence loads videos from the witnesses of the Apocalypse.
The Desert, 2021
Director Michael Dockery
Australia, 5 min
Earth in a post-human age, where our creations are left to wander in desolation.
El Camino, 2021
Directors Fernando Campos, Jaime Jasso
Mexico, 15 min
In order to sustain his family, a troubled pilot accepts one last crooked deal to transport a dangerous cargo inside his spaceship.
Space Chaser - Remnants of Technology, 2021
Director Lucas Fiederling
Germany, 9 min
A German thrash metal band get's teleported into a cantina bar in a distant galaxy and has to show all the alien creatures what they are about.
Kairos, tiempo cualitativo, 2021
Director Carlos Scasso
Spain, 17 min
To curtail the spread of revolts against the System, the "Kairós Programme" has been activated. Issachar, one of the insurgents, will find himself faced with the chance of preserving something more important than his ideals.
12:15 PM-1:45 PM
TECHNOLOGY VS HUMANITY
BLOCK 2
Jurrasic Incident (trailer/comedy)
Director Jack Hussey
United States, 3 min
Two young men go to the lost world, Isla Sorna, to take some Herbivore dinosaurs to use for World War 3. But all hell breaks loose when the velociraptor virus starts infecting humans
Welcome To Forever,2021
Director John Gray
United States , 10 min
The brilliant designer of smart houses leaves a posthumous surprise for his widow.
Ulom: The Primary Experiment, 2019
Director Jon D.A.,
US, 8 min
A secret government film from the 1960s reveals a scientist desperate to work with a mysterious AI to uncover the secrets of a fictional reality invading our own.
KAIJU DECODE, 2021
Director S/N
Japan, 9 min
The catastrophe "Skyfall" was brought by the collapsed orbital space colony crashed into the Earth. Inside the crater at the crash site now inhabit Kaiju born by a gene mutation. Ray, an avatar, comes to the area to collect the scattered "seeds", not knowing what really is going on there, He soon meets Mil, a mysterious girl. Is she a human, or a Kaiju? A secret government film from the 1960s reveals a scientist desperate to work with a mysterious AI to uncover the secrets of a fictional reality invading our own.
Antenna, 2016
Director Carsten Wolke
Germany, 16 min
A lonely 11-year-old-boy gets in contact with an alien via his old radio-device system. Or is the alien only a lonely old man?
The Unconscious and the Reflective Nemesis, 2021
Director Adrian Stanley Thomas
United States, 13 min
The Unconscious and the Reflective Nemesis is a film that explores the ramifications of repressed trauma. Frederick, the film's main character, has been tormented by a childhood of neglect and violence.
Moore's Void, 2020
Director Brad Bangsboll
Canada, 16 min
A grieving mother attempts to speak with her deceased son.
The Assistant, 2021
Director Guil Parreiras
United States, 7 min
A theatre assistant (a human-like robot) dreams of becoming an actress, but when her work condition presents her with an ugly reality, she must fight to escape from it.
Pick Me Up!, 2021
Director Alex Cherney
United States, 12 min
Heartbroken over a recent breakup, a young man gets more than what he bargains for when looks to gain his confidence back with the help of a friend.
Join the directors for a Q@A after the screening
1:45 PM- 3:45 PM
BEST OF SUPERNATURAL SCI-FI
BLOCK 3
CLAWS: a telephonic thriller for one, 2020
Directors Evan Neiden, John Ertman, Daniel Hendon, Jacob Leaf
United States, 2 minutes
Ring ring. You get a call from a young man named Danny. There’s a monster in his closet, and he needs your help. But as you go deeper into this telephone play, a simple ghost story reveals something altogether more sinister.
CLAWS is an award-winning interactive thriller performed live, just for you, over the course of a phone call.
Melchior Strasse, 2020
Director Peter Mason
United Kingdom 5 min
In the back streets of Weimar Berlin, madness is afoot...
Solstice, 2019
Director Lisandro- Perez Rey
United States 16 min
During a brutal winter storm, a bartender befriends a homeless man and brings him home for a warm meal and an ancient ritual.
We Are Nowhere, 2021
Director J. Cody Spellman
United States, 10 min
After aliens abduct her husband, Minnie receives a visit from a mysterious man in black.
The Bus Ride, 2021
Director Nathan Block
United States, 8 min
A young girl with dreams of better life boards a bus where she meets a mysterious stranger
There's Something in the Silence, 2020
Director Mike Castro
US, 8 min
Erin's new hearing aids have been picking up voices and sounds she's unable to explain. In an attempt to quiet the voices, she confronts them head-on- only to find there may be something more sinister lurking in the depths of silence.
Cold Caller, 2020
Director Darren J. Perry
United Kingdom, 10 min
Deep within an English garden under a dark canopy of trees, other-worldly powers are at work which soon become a theatre for a malevolent puppeteer.
First Lesson, 2020
Director Mathieu Mathieu Di Muro
United States, 14 min
The human race has lost individual integrity. As forced accountability they wear their actions, their crimes, as marks on their skin, to act as reminders and as warnings to other
Sereget, 2018
Director Dempsey Tillman
United States, 13 min
An emotionally detached husband (with a child on the way) gets a rude awakening when aliens invade his home and target his family.
ZAP!, 2020
Director Philip C. Sedgwick
United States, 6 min
An astronomer sharing online backyard observations of the center of our galaxy has a run-in with mosquitoes and a not-so-trusty bug zapper
Join the directors for a Q@A after the screening
DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
EAST COAST PREMIERE
BLOCK 4
3:45- 6:00 PM
Exegesis: Lovecraft, 2021
Director Qais Pasha
Canada, 120 min
A cathartic journey that Qais Pasha, a Pakistani-Canadian filmmaker embarks on as he traces the life of cult author H.P. Lovecraft, from woodland cemeteries in Rhode Island to the docks of New York and on to the cobbled stone streets of Quebec City.
Join the director for a Q@A after the screening
6:00 PM -7:30 PM
SCI-FI FEATURE PRESENTATION
US PREMIERE
BLOCK 5
LUCID, 2019
Director Victor Villanueva
The Philipines, 90 min
"Anne’s dreams are the exact opposite of her routinary life. In one of her dreams, she meets a mysterious man who challenges her to make her dreams more adventurous. As she crosses paths with another lucid dreamer, Ann realizes her dreams are far more alive than her reality— making her question if it is worth staying there or not."
7:30 PM- 9:45PM
HUMANITY PREVAILS
SHORT FILM BLOCK 6
In Search of Hawaiian Bigfoot, 2021 Trailer
Director MarQ Morrison
United States,1 min
This award-winning experimental, hybrid, cinematic, vlog (CineVlog2020) film follows "marQ" an award-winning micro-documentary filmmaker turned Cine-Vlogger (Cine-Vlog.com) as he searches for the Maui Skunk Ape a.k.a. Hawaiian Bigfoot in the jungles of Maui.
Kirk DeVille,2021
Director Harry Boast
UK, 8 minutes
After fleeing the scene of General Zarco's assassination, Kirk DeVille is making his escape aboard a HyperBridge transit vessel, heading for the nearest black hole. Will he reach it in time and escape the clutches of the evil Praesidium Empire?
Looking Glass, 2020
Director Ginew Benton
United States, 20 min
After his father was murdered Benjamin Looking Glass II, a young Native American man builds a time machine using modern science and ancient knowledge in an attempt to bring his father back but ultimately discovers his true purpose in creation.
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.
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.
I Don't Want to Be Alone Tonight, 2021
Director Michael Cho
United States, 7 min
Paranormal activity prompts a sleepover between Caly and her "gay best friend" Rodger.
Low Down Larry Conquers The Moon Men, 2019
Director Sammy Verni
United, States 5 min
At the height of the Space Race in July 1969, Larry Johnson and his trusty sidekick Spike, endeavor to be the first man (and dog) to set foot (and paw) on the Moon.
Solitary, 2021
Director Daniel Farmer
United States, 10 min
The Demeter was supposed to carry the first crew to land on a habitable exoplanet. But after an accident en route, the ship is lost with a single survivor in an escape pod, pushing forward, determined to complete the mission. Alone in unexplored space, the Astronaut drifts, hoping to find humanity’s future.
Cosmic Playtester, 2020
Director Arthur Vincie
United States, 8 min
Two board game playtesters get together after the death of their best friend, to figure out what it all means. Oh, and one of them is an alien.
One-Hit Wonder, 2021
Director Amanda Dow
United States. 11 min
A cab driver takes a former pop star on a one-way Twilight Zone-like ride.
Extasium - a Doorway to Paradise, 2021
Directors Guilhem Bertrand, Quentin Bruet-Ferréol
France, 36 min
In the secrecy of a Parisian building, for half a century, an outsider artist has built a machine that has the alleged power of invoking God at will. Every night, his creation plunges him into a powerful ecstasy. A religious and sexual trance
Join the directors for a Q@A after the screening
9:45 PM-11:30 PM
SCI-FI FEATURE
BLOCK 7
Tales of Tomorrow, 2020
Director Pedro de Lima Marques
Brazil, 85 min
In 2165, the kidnapping of a young girl puts the last stronghold of human civilization at war! The problem is that, in order to save humanity, it will be necessary to rely on the help of an adolescent who lives in 1999