Updated March 2020 Here’s the final #CISFFF2019 Awards, PDF. Here’s Nominees (updated 10-20-19), PDF. Here’s All Submitters, PDF. Here’s the Event Program, PDF. Here’s the Poster. Here’s an overview of our 2017-2019 film festivals.
This year’s SciFi & Fantasy film event was held Sunday, 10/20/2019 from 3-9 PM at The Bug Theater, 3654 Navajo Street, Denver Colorado 80211. Learn more, also more. Here’s how to join AIAFilmmakers.org.
We’re now submitting for #CISFFF2020. Also, we’re now submitting for Colorado International Activism Film Festival #CIAFF 2020 and Colorado Intl. Cannabis & Hemp Film Festival #CICHFF 2020. Submitters attended our live event for free; crew, family and friends purchased $5 tickets and/or donated at the door. Also, beginning this year, we offered free admission with a SciFi & Fantasy related costume, here. Learn about The Bug Theater, here.
We received 60 entries. We screened 36 submissions, including 13 trailers and 23 full-length submissions. We sincerely regret that we are unable to screen all of our official selections. Learn more. We screened shorts, music videos & trailers followed by a brief awards ceremony. Thanks to everyone who shared your filmic vision with us!
October is the month in which Marty McFly and Emmett Lathrop “Doc” Brown, Ph.D., emerge from a time machine into a future world of hoverboards, flying cars and people wearing two ties at once! Congratulations to filmmaker, Gisella Bustillos for her award-winning submission, A Brief History of Time Travel. Check out Ronald L. Mallett, the physicist building a time machine, The Bizarre World of Real time Machines, here.
We like “quirky” scifi and fantasy characters including monsters, aliens, space invaders, body snatchers and zombies. We like space-related fantasies along the lines of Gravity (2013) and Daniel Espinosa’s Life (2017). We like SciFi Thrillers like The Thirteenth Floor (1999). We would love to showcase your expose similar to Peter Hyams’ Capricorn One (1977) a government conspiracy thriller film about a Mars landing hoax.
We’re interested in documentaries that explore evolving photographic technologies, including virtual reality, gaming, SFX, and green screen. Also, we’re interested in lens & camera technologies. How did Luc Besson achieve all that awesome imagery in Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)? Who wasn’t blown away by Ready Player One (2018)? We’re like documentaries along the lines of Behind the Curve (2018) by Daniel J. Clark that discuss cosmological models & evolving associated cultural movements like “Flat Earth.”
We like travel narratives & expeditions – both modern & ancient, documentary & fictional. We would love to showcase your documentary presentations like Thrive: What on Earth Will it Take? (2011) and The Principle (2014), which critique standard models.
We especially like complicated time travel stories along the lines of Predestination (2014), Primer (2004), Looper (2012), In Time (2007), The Time Traveler’s Wife (2009) and Timecrimes (2007). We like dystopian stories like HULU’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017). We love exploring strange futuristic worlds like Blade Runner 2049 (2017) where technological advances in robotics and artificial intelligence threaten to destroy the very fabric of humanity and the universe.
Songbird (2018), directed by Sophie Black, is written by Tommy Draper with cinematography provided by Christopher Newman, music by Ian Algie and Simon Andrews. The film stars Janet Devlin, Therese Collins, and Oliver Park. Sophie Black graduated from the University of Creative Arts in 2010, then spent the next few years working in the art department of independent productions. Read more. Also here, here, here. Watch the official trailer, video.
Directors Jerom Fischer and Boris Acket have created this cinematic poem, I am Home. “As computers become more advanced each day, and artificial intelligence is on the verge of breaking through to our daily lives, the question of how well we’ll be able to understand this new technology becomes more and more interesting. After all, we don’t expect a dog to understand what happens in our mind, so how can we expect to know what an AI is thinking when it’s much more advanced than we are? Our only reference is our own experience as human beings.”
According to the directors, I am Home is “an experimental science fiction short film about a simulated entity going through the different stages of self-conceptualization. Essentially answering the life-long question: ‘Who am I?’ Each of the five sequences represents one of the many stages we go through as human beings: from the very basic accomplishment of recognizing one’s own body, as babies do in the first few months after birth, to the complex feat of attaining a social identity, something that can take years, well into our adult lives.”
Love Bite director Charles de Lauzirika poses with a friend.
Love Bite producer/director Charles de Lauzirika made his feature directing debut with the psychological thriller Crave (2012), starring Josh Lawson, Emma Lung, Edward Furlong and Ron Perlman.
The film played at festivals around the world, winning several awards, including the New Flesh Award for Best First Feature at the Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, and Best Director in the Next Wave category at Fantastic Fest in Austin.
After USC Film School, he spent several years in the most immersive post-grad education ever, producing BTS content for Ridley & Tony Scott, David Lynch, Michael Bay and many others. He continues to produce behind-the-scenes content, and has several feature films projects in various stages of development. Read more.
Doors at the venue open at 3 PM. Block 1 runs from 3:15-5:30 (135 Mins), Break 5:30-6 PM (30 Mins). Block 2 runs from 6 PM – 8:35 PM (155 Mins), Break 8:35 – 8:45 PM (15 Mins). Awards held from 8:45 – 9:15 PM (30 Mins). Close 9:15 PM – 9:30 PM (15 Mins). Learn more.
#CISFFF2019 Screening – Not in Order (Full-Length) Please see the event program, PDF.
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