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AUDIENCE AWARD: Best SCI-FI FEATURE FILM TRANS, 92 MINUTES, SOUTH KOREA, SCI-FI WATCH the Audience FEEDBACK Video: Minyoung Go is a girl who dreams of becoming a transhuman by transmitting electric shocks to her brain. After facing a serious assault from Taeyong Ma’s posse, she plans a revenge for the boys that bully her for… Continue reading HIGHLIGHTS, WINNERS & VIDEOS: MAY 2021 SCI-FI/FANTASY FEEDBACK Film Festival

Directed by Ben Hansford When the robot apocalypse arrives — and humanity finds itself being tea-bagged, dry-humped, and kill-shotted out of existence — the fate of the world rests in the hands of a gaming super-nerd named Bernie Meckler. But he’s got bigger problems.

When a futuristic law enforcement officer discovers that his new partner might have been responsible for the death of his old partner, he volunteers to bring him to justice. But when he learns of a conspiracy involving a secret operation that caused diverging timelines, he must determine who is behind it before time is altered… Continue reading SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: INVERSION, by Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez

A large spaceship glides over Peran, a moon circling a planet in the Arcturus System. Staying for a few moments, it drills a hole into the crust, deposits a box and silently leaves. Over 12,000 years later, Mining Colony Six occupies the same general area. The colony consists of six miners, a doctor and a… Continue reading SCI-FI Festival 1st Scene Reading: Arcturus Rising, by Robert Cox

Director Statement Like Itae’s words from the film, we are not seeing the reality of the world (input,) but rather the reality interpreted by our brains such as information, images, signals (output.) The film, “Trans” outlines such structure of the brain as its plot and follows the flow of subconsciousness rather than the emotions of… Continue reading Director Biography – NAERI DO (TRANS)

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)