Returning for an eight exciting year, Other Worlds, one of the premier SciFi Film Festivals in the US, features some of the best and unheralded genre films. Beginning on Thursday December 2 at Austin’s Galaxy Highland 10, the four day event includes over 25 feature films, a slew of shorts, a screenwriting workshop, and the Mary Shelley Award. This year also features an additional five days of virtual events.

After skipping last years virtual only event, I gladly return to the festival for another go around.

Art by Lauren Kitching

Here’s what to expect at Other Worlds 2021

Saturday, December 4

10AM

Saturday Morning – Workshop
Storytelling In The Time Of Vr And Ar With Randal Kleiser

We’ve already left the age of just watching movies and have entered the age of being inside the movie. Unlikely as it sounds, Randal Kleiser, the director of Grease and Flight of the Navigator, has been at the forefront of this new technology for years, creating one of the first multi-episode VR series Defrost, adapting Grease’s “You’re the One that I Want” into a singing and dancing AR experience, and receiving a Lumiere Award for distinguished creative and technical achievements.

Join us for our annual screenwriting workshop to hear about crafting stories in new formats.

Esluna: The Crown of Babylon

Stars: Grace Chan, Shawn O’Hara, Ariel Hack

After her mentor is abducted by a renegade monk, a relic hunter and her crew must find the Crown of Babylon, an ancient artifact rumored to have the power to bring back the dead.