Updated Dec. 4, 2019 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. Details about award winners, #CISFFF2019 Awards, PDF.
We’re now submitting for #CISFFF2020. Also, we’re now submitting for Colorado International Activism Film Festival #CIAFF2020 and Colorado Intl. Cannabis & Hemp Film Festival #CICHFF2020.
Please find and follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Here’s Nominees (updated 10-20-19), PDF. Here’s All Submitters, PDF. Here’s the event program, PDF. Here’s the Poster. Submitters attended the 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. Learn about The Bug Theater, here.
We received 60 entries. We screened 36 submissions, including 13 trailers and 23 full-length submissions. We held a brief awards ceremony for the benefit of attendees. We sincerely regret that we are unable to screen all of our official selections. Learn more. Thanks to everyone who shared your filmic vision with us! We look forward to working with you again soon.
“Special Edd” Edward Neal Chasteen II joins us again this year as photographer & videographer. Also (this year), judge. Additionally, judges this year include Bob Webb (Intendence Film Festival), Marla Kalin & William Briggs. We really appreciate all of you! Learn more here.
We like “quirky” scifi characters including monsters, aliens, space invaders, body snatchers, mummies, zombies and the Undead, generally, (especially politicians.)
Speaking of mummies, be sure to check out the award-winning feature-length submission this year from filmmaker Dennis Vincent, Rage of the Mummy (2018), streaming now on Amazon PrimeVideo.
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.
“A NASA Mars mission won’t work, and its funding is endangered, so they decide to fake it just this once. But then they have to keep the secret.” Read more. Speaking of space cadets, conspiracy thrillers, secrets and “NASA weirdness”, have you seen this homage to 1970s science-fiction? “A small wooden box arrives on the doorstep of a married couple, who know that opening it will grant them a million dollars and kill someone they don’t know.” The Box (2009). Learn more.
Among the shorts and music videos we plan to screen at this year’s event is Steven Kerr’s Spiral. Following WW3, a young woman, working in an Australian outpost, confronts prejudice as she attempts to save a Soviet cosmonaut marooned in space. Learn more. “My influences for ‘Spiral’ come from stories of history and real objects and places, but re-imagining them. As for directors the works of Verhoeven, Lucas, Kubrick and Kurosawa rank highly in my influences. Alfonso Cuaron’s ‘Gravity’ has been a great inspiration as well.” Read more, press kit for Spiral, PDF.
BTW, check out this cover art for Atomic War! #1, November 1952. The series presents a fictional account of an atomic war between Russia and the United States of America, set in 1960, mostly from the viewpoint of US military participants.
Along these lines, you’ll also want to take a look at our award-winning feature-length submission this year from filmmaker Milko Davis, starring Colorado’s own fabulously prolific talent Heath C. Heine, …wait for it. Yes, indeed, it’s Jurassic Thunder! We screened the trailer.
We’re interested in documentaries that explore evolving photographic technologies, including green screen, lens and camera, virtual reality, gaming and SFX & VFX. 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 interested in documentaries along the lines of Behind the Curve by Daniel J. Clark that discuss cosmological models and theories as well as evolving associated social & cultural movements like “Flat Earth.”
BTW, shouldn’t the Tesla Roadster be melting by now? 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 like complicated time travel stories along the lines of Predestination (2014), Primer (2004), Looper (2012) and Timecrimes (2007). We like dystopian stories like HULU’s The Handmaid’s Tale (2017). We’ve watched and enjoyed every episode of American Horror Story. We love exploring 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. Along these lines, you’ll want to take a look at feature-length submission featuring interviews with Bill Nye, A Brief History of Time Travel by Gisella Bustillos. Also, check out feature-length submission, Norman by Joel Guelzo.
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Depending on the number and types of submissions we receive, we may provide alternative and/or additional awards. Please find our Awards Master at our websites, https://infiniteperimeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Awards-Master-Update-8-11-19-Copyright-Infinite-Perimeter-Films-All-Rights-Reserved.pdf.
Here is a sample certificate, https://infiniteperimeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/CIAFF2019-Fir-Award-A-Thousand-Needles-EDIT.pdf. We are happy to provide custom certificates to submitters by request at the conclusion of our live event. As our festival acquires sponsorship and funding, we hope to offer cash and other types of awards to talented activist filmmakers and creatives. In the meantime, submitters, judges, volunteers & award winners are automatically enrolled in Association of International Activist Filmmakers (a $100 value). You are invited to list the society on your portfolio/CV. Learn more, https://infiniteperimeter.com/2017-2019-awards-nominees-programs/.
All plans and practices are subject to change without notice. We regret that we are unable to screen all of our official selections. In general, we select festival screeners from Award Winners, Finalists and Semi-Finalists. Sometimes we screen Selected submissions. Please see our websites for guidelines and past screening practices. Please note, beginning January, 2020, to become eligible to screen your submission and earn awards, we ask you to create a free picture profile with AIAFilmmakers.org.
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Last year’s film festival was a success! In Edith Tvede’s short film, Lux Aeterna, young and ambitious journalist Helene gets the story that could make her career, when she discovers a secret invention by the Danish-born top scientist Ellen Franklin. However, as the invention’s potential for catastrophic consequences become clear to her, Helene is forced to consider how her personal ambitions may cost both herself and the world. Here’s Edith’s film poster.
Meanwhile, on a farmstead just outside Arcadia, more than 20 years after life-altering events, a boy and his sister finally make their moment to break free. Robb Rokk is a Desoto County, Missouri, based filmmaker who founded the Desoto Arts Institute in 2016 to pass along his passion for thought-provoking redemptive story-telling to the younger and less experienced. Here’s the Outside Arcadia, poster. A self described “Frame-Slinger”, Mothersh1p Director & DP Nathan Schiefelbein is extremely passionate about video and storytelling. He hails from the Rio Grande Valley but moved up to the Dallas Fort Worth area to finish his degree.
Filmmaker Mark Logan says, “I wrote, directed, and produced Memories of My Father with a larger story in mind. I watched my grandfather suffer from dementia and my grandmother take care of him. I’m telling this story to honor them both. I want to share my sense of hope with audiences since so many of us can relate to the terrible things dementia does to the affected and the associated alike.” To save his ailing sister, an unlikely hero must journey afar to pluck a feather from the mighty Gryphon in this parody of the classic fairy tale. MT Maloney is an animator and digital media artist from Atlanta, GA, USA. He’s a writer and a sculptor, and works in both digital and traditional formats. Find out more about his submission, Gryphon Animo, Black Rainbow Films.
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