Updated March 2019 Science! She blinded me with science! “Science and science fiction are essentially the same…they’re both the same,” says Star Trek’s William Shatner. Submissions are now being accepted for #CISFFF 2019. Submissions for #CIAFF 2019 and #CICHFF 2019 are also being accepted.
Our first SciFi & Fantasy event was held at Denver Open Media (DOM), 700 Kalamath Street, Saturday, Nov. 17, 2018, 1 PM-6PM. Here’s some submitter pics. This year, #CISFFF 2019 is being held 10/28/19 at The Bug Theater. Learn more. Get updates via Twitter.
We received 107 entries for our first year! Thanks to creatives who shared your filmic visions with us! In 2018, we offered free music video submissions for all three of our film festivals, so that contributed toward the enthusiastic response. We accepted donations at the door from aspiring AIAFilmmakers and provided $5 tickets in advance from FilmFreeway. Here’s the #CISFFF 2018 USA Awards, PDF, the INTL Awards, PDF.
Also, here’s USA/INTL Films & Music Screenings, PDF. Here’s a link to the laurel. The password is “Congratulations!” Submitters are permitted to modify your laurels to reflect your final Submission/Award Status (updated 11/26/18), PDF. Please call/text us to correct errors.
Unfortunately, the weather here in Denver was super cold & icy the day of the event, so that probably kept folks at home who might otherwise have attended. Thanks to everyone who braved the weather to enjoy the entertainment! Many heartfelt thanks to DOM, volunteers, friends & family. We want to extend an especially warm thanks to our Master of Ceremonies, Ed Chasteen, Special Ed Productions.
The Further Adventures of Walt’s Frozen Head (2018), screened on Saturday. Everyone really enjoyed the film! It’s a feature-length quirky comedy about the unlikely friendship between the frozen head of entertainment mogul Walt Disney (Ron Schneider) and his low level theme park employee, Peter (Daniel Cooksley). Read more.
We also screened Details to Follow, Andromeda, The Replacement, Lux Aeterna, Outside Arcadia, Memories of My Father, and many more shorts. We broadcast music videos from 5:30 – 6 PM. We also re-broadcast these same music videos along with a few films on Sat., Nov. 24, 12:30-1:30 PM over Denver’s Channel 57. #CISFFF 2018 Program, PDF & poster.
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It’s late in the evening and a young couple are comfortably settled on the sofa watching TV. Nathan, played by Osy Ikhile (Black Mirror’s Emmy Award nominated episode, USS Callister) and Gaia, played by Laura Rollins (BBC’s Doctors), jokingly banter over what to watch, when an emergency broadcast alert stops them in their tracks. The warnings of an imminent missile strike should have them both in panic, but Gaia reacts in a very unexpected way. Nathan struggles to understand the situation, what’s changed in his wife-to-be’s demeanour and more importantly, who the stranger on his roof is.
Michael P. Spencer’s latest short film Details to Follow was filmed and edited over a 48 hour period, then went on to win 3rd place at the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival. Michael’s past work includes directing, producing and editing commercial content for Samsung, British Gas, Currys PC World and TransferWise. His brand content doc for SealSkinz was nominated for ‘Imagery of the Year’ at the Women’s Sports Trust Awards 2016.
Fans will be happy to hear, the U.S.S. Callister‘s mission may not be over. Rumor has it, the outer space-themed episode of Netflix’s Black Mirror Season 4 was so richly realized and faithful to its obvious inspirations that some have clamored for its crew (of sorts) to continue on, in a standalone series. And maybe, just maybe, that will happen. Prior to Black Mirror, this London-born actor’s biggest credits were on The Fear and Childhood’s End. Osy can also be seen in Lars von Trier horror-thriller The House That Jack Built (2018).
Emily Limyun Dean’s Andromeda is a sci-fi short film about an android who, through her friendship with a little girl, becomes alive. Emily is an Asian-Australian-American currently based in Los Angeles.
She trained in the Story Department at Pixar Animation Studios, and has since worked in the Story Department at Warner Bros on The Lego Batman Movie (2017), The Lego Movie Sequel (2019) and Scoob (2020). In 2017 Emily worked alongside renowned cinematographer Chung-hoon Chung (Oldboy, The Handmaiden, It) as a Visual Consultant on the live action sci-fi thriller, Hotel Artemis, directed by Drew Pearce (Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation) and starring Jodie Foster. Emily is represented by Verve and managed by Brillstein Entertainment Partners.
We live in a polarizing world filled with politics and conflict, from the 2016 elections here in the U.S. to the now turning violent Brexit ordeal in the U.K. As naive as it might sound, it’s a legitimate question to ask: why can’t we all just get along?
On election night, a janitor feels cheated out of a life he might have lived when his own clone becomes the President. He goes on a bender to seek justice, encountering new forms of prejudice, dismissal, and classism. In a society where the morality around cloning is dividing the masses, physically looking like the newly-elected President has its own dangers!
Director Sean Miller’s short film, The Replacement, was born out of an interest in technology out pacing society. Sean says, “We seem to be speeding toward better and faster solutions for our problems with little regard to the side effects they are having on culture as a whole. It’s a film about how the best of intentions can get us into places we didn’t expect, and how some visions of progress can lead to the abandonment of many.”
The film reflects this danger with a fanciful world of advanced clones that can out-perform their originals at everything, creating a new labor class. Having just won equal rights, the clones are stars of a new identity politics movement, and the world elevates them to the top of society, with less and less room for natural born humans. Sean, producer Naz Khan and actor Mike McNamara discuss the film with WGNRadio, here. Learn more and submit, #CISFFF 2019.
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