The Producers Club 

Sci-Fi and Supernatural  Shorts

        630pm-845pm 

Q&A with filmmakers after the Screenings

Bisected 

Director Danny Pineros 

United States 8 min 

A couple witnesses a paranormal event that separates them into two distinct dimensions.

Adjudicators Pawn 

Director David French 

US, 6 min 

Fracture 

Director Jon K. Jones 

United States, 8 min 

In the future, a lone astronaut loses consciousness on a distant planet after a catastrophic injury, only to wake in a mental institution on Earth during the aftermath of the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Manic, the Hoarder, and the Discombobulated Seahorse 

Directors The Genubrian Thinholdler

France, 33 min

 A concerned neighbor calls an intervention service when she realizes how bad Walter's hoarding problem has become. 

Rainy Days 

Director Mo McRae 

United States 12 min 

Abandoned as a baby, Percy’Q traverses through life attempting to overcome the traumas of his past.

Black Dragon (Rồng đen) 

Director Alexander Thompson 

United States, 15 min 

Vietnam, 1968. A feared American colonel nicknamed “the Black Dragon” by Vietnamese locals must face his inner shadow when his platoon presents him with a captured Vietcong girl who harbors some very unusual powers. A Jungian psychological thriller/parable examining the capacity for monstrous evil lurking within us all, the film is loosely inspired by the My Lai Massacre,

Captcha 

Director Stefano Bolognini 

Italy, 10 min  

What if the ChatGPT artificial intelligence was directly implemented in an external hardware? It would be necessary to test it, improve it iteratively, and achieve ever more stable and efficient releases. An interview between Alpha and Beta, but who is testing who? What is real, what is human, what is artificial?

Mercury 

Director Clara Dubau 

US, 10 min

Elio volunteers for a filmed experiment to help him reconnect with a repressed memory

The Crystal Crypt - Remastered Ten Year Anniversary Edition 

Based on a short story by Philip K Dick 

Director Shahab Zargari 

United States 28 min 

Directed by Shahab Zargari and based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, The Crystal Crypt is set in the distant future, with Earth and Mars teetering on the brink of interplanetary war. Just as the final passenger flight to leave Mars for Earth is about to depart, the spaceship is suddenly halted by Martian officers in search of three saboteurs who have destroyed a Red Planet metropolis. Will the soldiers find the guilty trio? A tense story of patriotic heroism - and deception - unfolds, as the secrets of both the Terrans and the Martians are revealed.

Part-Time 

Director Anthony Misiano 

United States, 12 min 

Everyone’s got a back-up gig these days. As Skip’s job interview starts to sink, the truth about his other occupation begins to surface. “PART-TIME” delivers surprising turns and unforeseen chills, while asking the timeless question, “What if you were a carrot?”

Don't Bother The Neighbors! 

Director Jeff Gorcyca 

United States, 7 min  

Jay gets more than he bargained for when he goes upstairs to tell off his noisy neighbors.

FEATURE PRESENTATION

SUPER BEEF

9 pm- 11 pm

Super Beef 

Director Nicholas D'Agostino 

United States, 100 min 

Super Beef is the story of Hondo, a drug-abusing, heavy-drinking, narcoleptic who only wants to relax and eat a popular local sandwich. Instead, fate has him embroiled in a plot alongside and against government agents, interplanetary-beings, and a secretive coterie that offers unheralded knowledge through a mysterious ceremony.

Q@A with the director Nicholas D'Agostino after the screening

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Anime and Animation 

5 pm - 6 30 pm

The Ultimate Show 

Director Laober Zhu 

China, 8 minutes 

Xiao Kai, a young man from a small town, starts to live-stream his sensory experience through "Butterfly Dreaming Live Show ", and goes step by step into a deep abyss under all kinds of temptations.

Meditations 

Director Adolfo Ruiz 

Canada, 10 minutes 

Meditations is an animated film that revolves around a psychotherapy session set in a dystopian future. By probing the inner psyche, a novel form of technology produces a therapist in the image of a lost family member. The encounter reveals a form of meaning-making that is mediated by technology, but ultimately emerges from the patient's recounting of events. T

Feast of Amrita 

Director Saku Sakamoto 

Japan, 47 minutes 

On her way home from school, together with classmates, a high school girl named Tamahi witnesses the fall off of someone from the rooftop of a gigantic apartment building that stands before them. Panicked and confused, Tamahi and her classmates rush to the place of the fall inside the apartment building, but there is no trace of anyone.
As she wonders about this, she begins feeling uneasily watched and strange presences around her. . ..

Frontier 

Director Xiaopeng Zhu 

China, 10 min 

The intern Li Wei, as a test subject of artificial intelligence, faces the temptation and persecution of the central system in an experiment where the boundaries of morality and humanity seem to be unfortunately out of control, and still chooses to sacrifice herself to preserve humankind.

Don't Mess with Shiva Part 1 

Director Lorenzo West 

Canada, 8 minutes 

A talk show host travels with Frank Doomsday's team of super soldiers from the Roman Empire, to a dome at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. They intend to free Anubis (the Egyptian god of Death) and avoid waking Shiva the Destroyer.

The Dark Odyssey 2 - Ice Nexus 

Director Michael Lavine 

United States, 12 minutes

 A skeptical astronaut discovers a lost spaceship and gets tangled up in a dangerous journey to a mythical space-time portal, the Ice Nexus, in search of the Inventory of the Mind, essential knowledge for ending the Eternal War.

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Japanese Sci Fi Feature 

        230pm-5pm 

Distant Thunder 

Director Takayuki Ohashi

Japan, 140 min

The end of the world is just months away. A comet collision is about to destroy the human race in a few months. The three sisters, Ayane, Kanon, and Oto, who have been living separately for a long time, come to live together in Setouchi, their birthplace, after the death of their father. Oto, the youngest sister, feels uncomfortable living

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Experimental Sci-Fi Film Block 

        12 pm-2: 30pm 

The Bytes Dreams are Made of 

Director Alessandro Amaducci 

Italy, 67 min 

The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness. 

Fire Syndrome/ Animation 

Director Jonathan Nolan 

Australia, 22 min 

On the alien world of Unruhe far off in the Whale's Mouth sector of space, science turns on its creators due to the influence of a sinister force... 

War Time 

Director James Shigeo Osborne 

US, 10 m 

Through found footage from his life and others, a young man reflects on his days after a great global war: his struggle to find happiness amongst the rubble, and the fear of forgetting everything he once was  

Garbage Days 

Director Julien Jauniaux 

Belgium, 13 min 

A violent man faces the illusions of justice 

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Family Hour Sci –Fi Film Shorts 

        11AM-12PM

Strange Days at Blake Holsey High: Echoes -- Episode 'Hanna Part 3' 

Director Paul Hart-Wilden 

United States, 12 min 

The NBC sci-fi series Strange Days at Blake Holsey High returns as an original web series, Strange Days at Blake Holsey High: Echoes. Set in the present-day, Echoes takes place 16 years after "the Science Club" graduated from Blake Holsey High and the school closed forever

The Assassin's Apprentice 2: Silbadores of the Canary Islands 

Director Russ Emanuel 

United States, 28 min 

Kaylee, an apprentice assassin for TAA Corp., is taking a long-deserved vacation in the Canary Islands, when her Freerunner drone arrives to project a holographic image of Rick, her handler. Rick explains to Kaylee that her vacation has been cut short, and that she is being urgently summoned by Roy, the head of TAA Corp.’s Canary Island Bureau headquarters, for a new mission. Kaylee follows the Freerunner drone to the TAA Corp.’s Canary Island headquarters,

Game, Interrupted 

Director Ilayda Iseri 

Turkey,15 min 

While the mood on the streets of capital Ankara is charged with tension shortly before the military coup, a young sister and brother find their way out of boredom by switching from one game to another during their winter break., Something goes wrong that day. While trying to figure out what happened, they notice strange intruder at the door, who resembles Khomeini or Darth Vader 

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Supernatural and Sci-Fi Shorts 

9 pm -11 pm

The Name 

Directors Renato Paone, Francesco Eramo Puoti 

Italy, 20 min

The Dominican order has requested a special computer from an engineering laboratory capable of solving a complex algorithm, but only the monks know its real purpose. Caterina, a young researcher, is thus sent from the laboratory to the Dominican abbey with the task of supervising the functioning of the machine. A task that will forever mark his destiny and that of all humanity.

Drawn

Director Ty Clancey

United States, 24 minutes

A widower and his young daughter fend off a predatory land speculator by any means necessary in this psychological thriller set on a dying ranch in the Southwest. With shifting points of view and a twisting power structure, the story delves deep into our perception of control, unraveling a family myst

Homecoming 

Director David R. Hardberger 

United States, 5 min 

A woman is awakened in the middle of the night by her husband at the front door. When she tries to tell him he can't be there anymore, he ignores her words

Night Feeding 

Director Sarah K Reimers 

United States, 6 min  

A new mother struggles through the 4 am feeding time.

The Wallpaper Man 

Director Amit Gupta 

United States, 7min 

Based on the popular short story, "The Wallpaper Man", this film is about a young girl who moves into a new home with her abusive father after the tragic death of her mother. There, living within the walls is a creature who offers Emma the ultimate deal: he will take away her pain, in exchange for human life.

Old Flames

Director Fugitives

Canada, 5 min

A haunting portrayal of a recovering addict learning to live with her demons.

The Gorge 

Director Ryan Neil Butler 

Australia ,15 min 

A grieving woman and her friends must survive a night in the woods when an unseen force begins to hunt them. But not is all as it seems.

The Third Bedroom 

Director Kathryn Van Buren 

United States, 23 min 

On a gloomy winter trip to help her father prepare their ancestral beach house for sale, little Isla illuminates some of the darkness that haunts the family tree.

Giallo 

Director Yogesh Chandekar 

India,8 min 

A quirky ode to Italian Giallo cinema, a young woman returning from a party is stalked by a mysterious masked killer who’s much more than what he seems to be. Starring Saiyami Kher and BhaDiPa fame Renuka Daftardar.

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358 West 44th St, NYC

A Documentary Presentation:

Accidental Truth - UFO Revelations

7 pm-9 pm

Accidental Truth - UFO Revelations

Director Ron James

United States, 90 min

It is narrated by Matthew Modine.

Officials who interact with the public regarding the UFO question openly acknowledge that they know things that they can’t reveal. In "Accidental Truth," 
the truth about another, advanced intelligence engaging humanity becomes undeniably clear.

You will witness revelations on UFOs / UAPs from government insiders that have never been previously shared with the public. From many years of interviews and investigation, Ron James painstakingly connects the dots. 


Colonel John Alexander, Lue Elizondo, Christopher Mellon, Nick Pope, Dr. Garry Nolan, Congressman Tim Burchett and others help to “accidentally" weave a story that leaves no doubt that another intelligence is somehow operating around us, above us in our atmosphere, beneath our seas and in outer space. Decades of official denial and debunking are irrevocably put to rest in this film.

Dr. Michio Kaku provides scientific analysis and commentary specific to what we know. Never before has a world-class scientist weighed in so deeply on the topic. Until now.


A collection of contributors from across the field all come together to settle the question. The subject is no longer up for debate. You will experience the proof. The acknowledgment of another advanced intelligence operating flying craft that far exceeds human technical capabilities is only the beginning.

Q@A after the screening with MUFON Media Director Ron James

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358 West 44th St, NYC

International Sc-Fi Shorts

430pm- 7 pm 

Q&A with filmmakers after the Screenings

Cassandra 

Director Alexander Manolides 

Greece, 25 minutes 

A young woman visits a company that claims it can show the future of any relationship. When she discovers a future infidelity in her relationship with her boyfriend, she must decide whether to let the visions dictate her choices in the present.

The Conversation They Never Had 

Director Anna Aleksandrova 

Austria 14 min 

Viennese cafe somewhere in time. Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn. He got the prize and never mentioned her. She’s asking why. While talking about science, Lise takes an unexpected turn into reckless vulnerability expressing her life long love for Otto. Suddenly, Otto realizes that he missed the most essential part in science- love of the discovery. Taken by her sincerity, he is falling in love with Lise…but it’s a dream. 

Algodreams 

Director Vladimir Todorovic 

Australia 11 min 

Algodreams are made by prompting AI systems to imagine the future of life on planet Earth. They dreamt of time machines, memory machines, flamingos that can save the oceans, the AI civilization that destroys humans to protect the planet, and they dreamt of self-driving bicycles that fall in love. 

Lost in the Sky 

Director Simon Öster 

Sweden 13 min 

After a long search in a strange galaxy, a lone rescue robot locates a surviving astronaut, but must reach her before she's consumed by a looming black hole.

Little 

Directors Meka Ribera, Álvaro G.  

Spain 12 min  

When they are born they are precious, almost perfect. But they grow so fast. I wish there was a way to enjoy that unrepeatable age forever. Petit Toujours combines the latest advances in gene therapy and selective hormone blocking to extend your time with the most beautiful thing you have in the world, your baby. 

Emily's Mountain 

Director Tal Somech 

Israel, 22 min

Emily celebrates her 6th birthday on a magical trip with her family and is slowly exposed to the horrifying reality that her parents are trying to conceal from her using modern technology and entertainment systems

The River 

Director Christine Dabague 

Lebanon, 30 min 

After a Syrian family's statue of the powerful goddess Inanna is stolen, their daughter embarks on an adventurous journey to retrieve the elusive icon.

Dandelion 

Director Gillian Simpson 

United Kingdom, 12 min 

Alice lives alone in the middle of a field of wind turbines, the constant thump thump her only companion. She is haunted by the memories of the day her daughter Grace and her partner, Jamie died, a tragedy that she can’t seem to recover from 

The Discarded 

Director Uli Meyer 

United Kingdom, 3 min 

A character designer struggles with the design of a cartoon cat and ends up on a short trip through the looking-glass 

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Experimental Sci –Fi Film Blocks 

        12PM-230 PM 

The Bytes Dreams are Made of 

Director Alessandro Amaducci 

Italy, 67 min 

The dream world of the digital machine manifests itself on the computer screen as a stream of images and sounds that spreads over the network. The streaming of digital consciousness. 

The Manic, the Hoarder, and the Discombobulated Seahorse 

Director Yann Krajewski 

France, 32:19

A concerned neighbour calls an intervention service when she realizes how bad Walter's hoarding problem has become. 

Fire Syndrome/ Animation 

Director Jonathan Nolan 

Australia, 22 min 

On the alien world of Unruhe far off in the Whale's Mouth sector of space, science turns on its creators due to the influence of a sinister force... 

War Time 

Director James Shigeo Osborne 

US, 10 min 

 Through found footage from his life and others, a young man reflects on his days after a great global war: his struggle to find happiness amongst the rubble, and the fear of forgetting everything he once was  

Garbage Days 

Director Julien Jauniaux 

Belgium, 13 min 

 A violent man faces the illusions of justice