Monthly Archives: December 2018

The Other Worlds Austin 2018 preview Day 4

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Returning for a fifth exciting year, Other Worlds Austin, one of the premier SciFi Film Festivals in the US, features some of the best and unheralded genre films. Beginning on Thursday December 6 at Flix Brewhouse, the four day event includes 20 full length films, a slew of shorts, and a screenwriting workshop. Not terribly surprising to anyone who regularly follows my writings, I’ll be at there.

Here’s what to expect at Other Worlds Austin 2018.

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 9TH

12:00PM SCIFI SHORTS 2 – ELECTORAL COLLAGE

The Body Client

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Alexander Frank | Germany | 21 min

Norman is in a lot of debt from student loans. He can pay it off by letting a client inhabit his body for 10 years. Alas, the transfer doesn’t go quite as planned.

 

Ovum

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Cidney Hue | USA | 8 min

A woman is subjected to a horrifying virtual reality experience before making a difficult decision.
Alumni: ODESSA (2014).

Andromeda

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Emily Limyun Dean | USA | 15 min

Amidst a changing world and growing tensions between humans and robot domestic workers, A.I. Andromeda discovers how far she’ll go to retain her hard-won humanity.

Biomass

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Larry McKee | USA | 6 min
Writer: Robert Jauregui

Five minutes in the life of two salvage yard workers who provide a disturbing energy source to clients.

 

ExO

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Hiroki Yokoyama | UK | 10 min

In this not-too-far-from-present-day social commentary, ex-cons are having a hard time getting a fair shake.

 

Nadine

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Phil Bucci | USA | 3 min

The time has come for a young woman to escape the violence of her home life. But doing so is a little complicated.
Alumni: PAUL’S BAD DAY (2017); SPECIAL FORCES (2016).

 

The Adventures of Penny Patterson

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Stephanie Donnelly | USA | 19 min

Penny’s boyfriend has been acting weird ever since he took a tour of the mysterious science lab in town. But she doesn’t have time for his changes or rumors of the “mysterious” new superhero in town – she has a science fair to win.

 

12:10PM ARTIST DEPICTION (WORLD PREMIERE)

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Brett Ryan Bonowicz | USA | 82 min

Conceptual artists Don Davis, Charles Lindsay, and Rick Guidice have helped bring NASA projects to life. Their incredible pioneering artwork, which helped define the aesthetics of futurism and space travel, is ubiquitous; and yet these artists have always been hidden behind the scenes. Until now.
Alumni: CLOSER THAN WE HINK (2017);THE PERFECT 46 (2014).

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The Other Worlds Austin 2018 preview Day 3

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Designed by tattoo & graphics artist  David Poe

Returning for a fifth exciting year, Other Worlds Austin, one of the premier SciFi Film Festivals in the US, features some of the best and unheralded genre films. Beginning on Thursday December 6 at Flix Brewhouse, the four day event includes 20 full length films, a slew of shorts, and a screenwriting workshop. Not terribly surprising to anyone who regularly follows my writings, I’ll be at there.

Here’s what to expect at Other Worlds Austin 2018.

Saturday, December 9th

11:20AM ELIJAH & THE ROCK CREATURE* (US PREMIERE)

Jennifer Walden | Canada | 80 min

Writer: Jennifer Walden
Cast: Allie Dunbar, Jesse Wheeler, Cam Zimmer

A young boy gets lost on a camping trip, but befriends an extraordinary creature from the stars who tries to help Elijah find his way home.
*Open to the public, FREE for anyone under 15.

Elijah & the Rock Creature screens with:

DOCTOR OF MONSTER

Gustavo Teixeira | Brazil | 11 min
Writers: Gustavo Teixeira & Rodrigo Estravini

Dudu knows exactly what he wants to be when he grows up. The problem is, he’s still a little afraid of his future patients…

 

12:00PM BORN IN FLAMES (35TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING)

Lizzie Borden | USA | 80 min

Writer: Lizzie Borden
Cast: Honey, Adele Bertei, Jean Satterfield

Ten years after the most peaceful revolution in United States history, a progressive dystopia exists where minorities, gay rights organizations, and feminists should be further along than they are. Governmental preference and violence has forced these groups to take the revolution farther than they ever imagined. An indispensable, radical, and strangely timely manifesto on racism, sexism, and heteronormative culture in an alternative United States socialist democracy.

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The Other Worlds Austin 2018 preview Days 1 and 2

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Designed by tattoo & graphics artist David Poe

Returning for a fifth exciting year, Other Worlds Austin, one of the premier SciFi Film Festivals in the US, features some of the best and unheralded genre films. Beginning on Thursday December 6 at Flix Brewhouse, the four day event includes 20 full length films, a slew of shorts, and a screenwriting workshop. Not terribly surprising to anyone who regularly follows my writings, I’ll be at there.

Here’s what to expect at Other Worlds Austin 2018.

Thursday, December 6

7:42PM ALIEN NATION (30TH ANNIVERSARY SCREENING)
LAUNCH FILM

Graham Baker | USA | 91min | 1988

Writer: Rockne S. O’Bannon
Cast: James Caan, Mandy Patinkin, Terence Stamp

Three years after 300,000 “newcomers” crash landed in the Mojave Desert, the aliens are adjusting to life as second-class citizens in Los Angeles. After a police homicide forces a hardened detective to work with a newly promoted newcomer, he finds a complex immigrant culture has developed in the shadows of society. There couldn’t be a timelier opportunity to screen a film that looks at how Americans treat otherness when it shows up on our doorstep. Science Fiction can force us to face ourselves in the mirror, even if the view isn’t pretty.

Rockne S. O’Bannon broke into television writing for AMAZING STORIES and THE TWILIGHT ZONE. After writing ALIEN NATION, he went on to create the SciFi cult classics seaQuest and FARSCAPE, as well as serve as Developer and/or Executive Producer on DEFIANCE and REVOLUTION and write for V and CONSTANTINE.

 

Friday, December 7

4:30PM CYGNUS (TEXAS PREMIERE)

Hugo Félix Mercado | Mexico | 87 min

Writer: Carlos Alvahuante Contreras
Cast: Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Cassandra Ciangherotti, Jorge Luis Moreno

An astronomer discovers a strange signal emanating from Cygnus. Things begin to get strange at the observatory, and he has to find out just what exactly it is that he has found.

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