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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.
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.