Month: July 2019

SCI-Fi/FANTASY Short Screenplay Reading: The Last Breath Of Winter, by Thom Holland

A huntsman battles a brutal winter and the spirits that inhabit the forest around his family’s home. CAST LIST: Narrator: Val Cole — Producer/Director: Matthew Toffolo http://www.matthewtoffolo.com Festival Moderators: Matthew Toffolo, Rachel Elder Casting Director: Sean Ballantyne Editors: Kimberly Villarruel, Kyle Drier, John Johnson Festival Directors: Rachel Elder, Natasha Levy Camera Operators: Denissa Palmer, Temitope… Continue reading SCI-Fi/FANTASY Short Screenplay Reading: The Last Breath Of Winter, by Thom Holland

Director Biography – Frankie De Leonardis (FLOATING)

Frankie De Leonardis is an Italian/Argentine director living in Barcelona. He’s been on the industry since 1997, mainly on tv title design and advertising direction. He’s won several awards including NY Advertising Festival (2011), European BDA Promax, ADCE, Laus for his work in advertising and title design. Director Statement This is my first ever cinematic… Continue reading Director Biography – Frankie De Leonardis (FLOATING)

Short Film: FLOATING, 8min., Spain, Sci-Fi

A Russian astronaut awakes on an ISS space module after an accident. His attention is caught by outside knockings . Someone has come to welcome him, although it might all be just his Imagination, or maybe not. Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter  Instagram News & Reviews “Sundance TV Shorts Winners 2019” Panorama Audiovisual https://www.panoramaaudiovisual.com/en/2019/05/24/

Director Biography – Adrian Ross Munro (SHORT BURST)

Adrian Ross Munro is a film director from Toronto Canada. His credits include A Son’s Father, Team Epic, The Black Light, Untitled Abraham Lincoln Short, Cigarettes Hurt Babies, Parasite and making its festival debut this year – Short Burst. His films have screened in festivals throughout North America.

Short Film: SHORT BURST, 9min., Canada, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Chad is a lonely programmer at a massive tech company, and he has been selected as the first person to beta test the company’s new app. The app, called ’Short Burst’, is an incredible feat of technology. It allows its user to send voice memos to themselves in the near past. Forget to bring your… Continue reading Short Film: SHORT BURST, 9min., Canada, Sci-Fi/Fantasy

Director Biography – John Carlin (ECHOES

John is the director of horror shorts ‘Exposure’ & ‘6 Feet Under’ and the award winning Sci-fi-Fi ‘The Way Back’. ‘ECHOES’ is the fourth collaboration with the writing team of Paul Skillen and Aaron Gray. John has been working as a director in the television industry for 17 years and directed the Irish language drama… Continue reading Director Biography – John Carlin (ECHOES

Short Film: ECHOES, 20min., UK, Sci-Fi

On a distant planet two blue collar workers transport a prisoner across a remote mining colony, only to discover she is not the real danger onboard. Project Links  Website  Facebook  Twitter News & Reviews “Principal photography wraps on John Carlin’s sci-fi short Echoes” Gearr Scannain http://gearr.scannain.com/in-development/echoes-filming-wraps/ “Review of Echoes” UK Film Review https://www.ukfilmreview.co.uk/single-post/2018/03/16/Ech

Director Biography – Rebecca Gardiner (TRANSMISSION)

Rebecca is a film maker with a passion for intense and immersive storytelling. She is completing her masters in film specialising in directing and writing. She creates compelling tales with cores of truth and dramatic sensibilities within the horror, science fiction, action, fantasy and thriller genres as she loves the visual freedom and complexity of… Continue reading Director Biography – Rebecca Gardiner (TRANSMISSION)

Short Film: TRANSMISSION, 15min., Australia, Sci-Fi

Earth is dying, humanity is on the brink of extinction, and now mankind’s final hope has all but disappeared. In an effort to source a new life for planet earth, a research team ventured through the stars, only to go missing on an unknown planet. Desperate to find them, Commander Madison Sterling and her crew… Continue reading Short Film: TRANSMISSION, 15min., Australia, Sci-Fi

Director Biography – Didac Gimeno (SATURN THROUGH THE TELESCOPE)

Graduated in Veterinary Sciences in 2011, I have worked as a veterinarian mainly in the fields of cardiology and in clinical practice with exotic animals. In 2014 I graduated in Film Direction in the Cinematography and Audiovisual School of the Community of Madrid (ECAM) with the highest mark in my speciality. Oscillation (2014), my end-of-course… Continue reading Director Biography – Didac Gimeno (SATURN THROUGH THE TELESCOPE)