AUDIENCE AWARD WINNERS:
BEST FILM: SHORT BURST
BEST PERFORMANCES: BUCKETHEADS – A STAR WARS FILM
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: FLOATING
BEST MUSIC: TRANSMISSION
Them of night: “What is not seen”
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The 17th event of the Toronto festivals in 2019.
15 more festivals to go in Toronto this year.
See you at the festivals.
– Matthew Toffolo
TRANSMISSION, 15min., Australia, Sci-Fi
Directed by Rebecca Gardiner
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 venture in pursuit. As her crew go missing one by one, the entire fate of humanity rests on her shoulders.
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SHORT BURST, 9min., Canada, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Directed by Adrian Munro
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 lunch to work? Take a wrong turn on the highway? Regret not talking to that cute stranger on the subway? Chad’s future self is there to correct life’s little mistakes. The ease and convenience of the Short Burst app changes Chad’s life for the better, but also for the worse — much worse. Chad’s past, present, and future selves are affected by Short Burst in ways no one could’ve predicted.
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SATURN THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, 11min., Spain, Sci-Fi
Directed by Didac Gimeno
Max is a ten-year-old boy obsessed with insects, telescopes and monsters. One night he decides to escape from his bed to watch a terror film in the TV. Surprised by his mother, he is returned to his bedroom. However, he is fascinated by the images he has seen, but they will give him nightmares.
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FLOATING, 8min., Spain, Sci-Fi
Directed by Frankie De Leonardis
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.
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ECHOES, 20min., UK, Sci-Fi
Directed by John Carlin
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.
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Submit via FilmFreeway, the exclusive way our festival accepts submissions.:
 SCREENPLAY MOVIE: MIND FORCE, by James ZeankowskiJuly 2019 Winner |  TV SPEC SCREENPLAY: WESTWORLD, by Brenda HolidayJuly 2019 Winner |
 1st Scene TV SCREENPLAY: VAPOR, by Eric WhiteJuly 2019 Winner |  SCI-FI SHORT SCREENPLAY: THE LAST BREATH OF WINTER, by Thom HollandJuly 2019 Winner |
 FEMALE BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY: THE TERRAN CHRONICLES, by Lisa KirkwoodJuly 2019 Winner |  BEST SCENE SCREENPLAY: CETACEANS, by Paul NurkowskiJuly 2019 Winner |
 NOVEL TRANSCRIPT: CANDELJACK BOOK ONE, by Jeffrey Anthony CamposJuly 2019 Winner |
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 Akinterinwa, Efren Zapata, Zack Arch
SATURN THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, 11min., Spain, Sci-Fi
TRANSMISSION, 15min., Australia, Sci-Fi
ECHOES, 20min., UK, Sci-Fi
SHORT BURST, 9min., Canada, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
FLOATING, 8min., Spain, Sci-Fi
BUCKETHEADS – A STAR WARS STORY, 13min., Canada, Fan Fiction
STAR WARS: THE TOYS AWAKEN, 7min., USA, Fan Fiction
RED & THE KINGDOM OF SOUND, UK, Animation/Fantasy
NOMADIC CLOUD, 5min., Sci-Fi/Animation
NOW, 16min, USA, Sci-Fi/Fantasy
THIS IS FINE, 7min, USA, Sci-Fi/Drama