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AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS: Best Short Film: UPRISING! Best Performances: VOICES Best Cinematography: CONSUME Best Sound & Music: BUDDERSIDE ZEN Best Direction: THE LAST REVERIE Theme of night: It’s never what it seems. NOTE: Festival took place during the COVID-19 virus lockdown so all screenings were held in private. Watch the Audience FEEDBACK Videos: UPRISING!, 14min.,… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS, WINNERS & VIDEOS: APRIL 2021 SCI-FI/FANTASY FEEDBACK Film Festival

Cadmann Weyland is an aging soldier whose final mission was completed once he oversaw the safe passage of Earth’s first interstellar colonists to their new home, Avalon. Feeling alone and on the outside looking in, Cadmann is the only one who begins to suspect their new island paradise may be anything but safe. Now Cadmann… Continue reading SCI-FI Festival Feature Screenplay Reading: The Legacy Of Heorot, by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Steven Barnes

After the north and south magnetic poles flip overnight, people’s random inner animals run wild. In this new world, the power dynamic between men and women, rich and poor, parent and child go extinct. All that matters is where you fall on the food chain. Are you predator or prey? CAST LIST: Narrator: Steve Rizzo… Continue reading SCI-FI/FANTASY Festival TV PILOT 1st Scene Reading: Nature > Nuture, by Daniel Roche

In the not too distant future, a team of oceanic explorers equipped with technologically advanced diving suits become the target of a highly adaptive creature that teaches them a valuable lesson: Space was never the final frontier. CAST LIST: Narrator: Val Cole Crew Member: Elizabeth Rose Morriss – Captain: Allan Michael Brunet

After performing with Blue Man Group for 5 years, Jake started his screenwriting career by working with Kurt Vonnegut on multiple adaptations of his work. This led to partnerships with Dean Koontz, Stan Lee, and the Flaming Lips adapting their work for film and television. He is currently developing projects with Lex & Otis animation,… Continue reading Director Biography – Jake Hart (VOICES)

A telepathic intelligence operative is interrogated by her handler for connecting with the minds of unsanctioned targets.

Nico Amedeo is an American born, Italian raised, actor, writer and director who began his career in the Shanghai independent film industry.He has a Master’s degree in Acting from the Shanghai Theatre Academy and is currently concluding his Master’s in Filmmaking from CaFoscari University of Venice.

As a father battles with his Parkinson’s in order to play the song his son once played so well, he’s interrupted by his android servant, intrigued by the piano. Rollo, the servant, masters the tune to please his owner, but instead brings back memories best forgotten.

Alex Wroten is a North Carolina-based, award-winning writer-director-composer. His diverse portfolio of projects includes original films, musical scores and documentaries that have gained international acclaim. Alex owns and operates Well Dang! Productions, serving as creator and producer on more than 20 short films, three feature-length films and several web series. The full-service production company’s films… Continue reading Director Biography – Alex Wroten (ENDANGERED)

The world of easy-going teenager Roger Burns flips upside-down after he’s seduced into a late night swim with his girlfriend and contracts a rare, endangered parasite. All Roger wants to do is get back to adolescent frivolities and basketball, but everyone from his parents, to his doctors, to animal rights groups, have their own opinions… Continue reading Short Film: ENDANGERED, 18min., USA, Fantasy/Comedy