EMP in partnership with SIFF will present the seventh annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival on February 4, 2012 at the Seattle Cinerama Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts. The festival will showcase animated and live-action science fiction and fantasy films.
DETAILS
Festival Date: February 4, 2012
Time: Session 1, 4:00-6:00pm | Session 2, 7:30-9:30pm
Location: Seattle, WA at the Cinerama Theatre
THIS EVENT IS NOW SOLD OUT!
ENCORE SCREENING JUST ADDED
Missed out on tickets for the 2012 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival? Want to see your favorites again? Come experience some of the Jury Award winners, Audience Award winners, and Curator's choices from the Festival.
Encore screening will include 10 out of 20 of the below films.
Details:
Date: Sunday, February 5
Time: 12:00pm
Location: SIFF Cinema at the Uptown
Tickets: $10
Tickets available on SIFF.net. For more information call 206.464.5830.
FESTIVAL FORMAT
The film program is split between the two sessions. An awards ceremony follows the second session. Attendees of both sessions will have an opportunity to vote for the Audience Favorite.
10 short films will screen in the first session 4:00pm-6:00pm.
10 short films will screen in the second session 7:30pm-9:30pm.
An awards ceremony follows the second session. Some films may contain adult material, parental discretion advised.
TICKETS
SOLD OUT!
Tickets for the encore screening at SIFF's Uptown Theater for Sunday, February 5th at noon, are now available here Tickets are $10 for a single session, $18 for both sessions. For more information, please call 206.464.5830.
Some films may contain adult material, parental discretion advised.
SFFSFF 2012 FILMS:
ATTACK OF THE KILLER MUTANT CHICKENS (MURGI KENO MUTANT)
Director: Nayeem Mahbub
Running Time:15 minutes
Country: Bangladesh
Year: 2011
Seattle Premiere!
In the near future, Bangladesh is terrorized by killer mutant chickens. A team of kung-fu fighting chefs must fight to keep chicken on their menu. But one chicken sets its sights on revenge. It's time for the ultimate poultry showdown.
CHOREBOT
Director: Greg Omelchuck
Run Time: 8.5 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Seattle Premiere!
Chorebot is set in the near future where humans use robots to do chores and take care of the pets. In a modern neighborhood, Chorebot and the dog Simon spend their days together as the human owner spends his days surfing the Internet and chatting on-line. Will Chorebot and Simon even notice when their human owner mysteriously disappears?
THE COMET CHRONICLES
Director: Wade Chitwood
Run Time: 12 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2011
World Premiere!
Set in Seattle 2139 AU, The Comet Chronicles is a tongue-in-cheek, retro-futuristic, Harryhausen-ish, science fiction story involving Galactic Patrol Officer Ashley Comet. The story opens with Ashley Comet narrating the circumstances that led her to become a private detective. Flashing back to that day, we find Ashley off-duty and heading home from her daily patrol when she answers a distress call from the Planet Andar 5. Warned by her commanding officer to be alert, the planet holds secrets that Ashley Comet is not aware of.
DEAD HAPPY
Director: Nicky Lianos
Run Time: 11 minutes
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Seattle Premiere!
The Grim Reaper is depressed. She's fed up with her daily routine of guiding the dead and wishes the guy she sees every day would acknowledge her. But when her chance for love and happiness finally comes it's not quite what she expected.
DECAPODA SHOCK
Director: Javier Chillon
Run Time: 9 minutes
Country: Spain
Year: 2011
Seattle Premiere!
An astronaut returns to Earth after a fatal accident on a distant planet. When he discovers he has been the victim of a sinister plot, he decides to take vengeance on those responsible for the death of his family.
DOLLS FACTORY (FÁBRICA DE MU�'ECAS)
Director: Ainhoa Menéndez
Run Time: 11 minutes
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Seattle Premiere!
Anna works in a doll factory. Her whole life revolves around performing mechanical motions to insert the dolls' eyes. But a small change at her work changes her life forever.
MAHAHULA THE GIANT RODENT OF HAPPINESS
Director: Nomint Motion Design
Run Time: 1 minute
Country: UK
Year: 2011
Happiness is a very serious matter, definitely worthy of an awesome deity like Mahahula, a gigantic ancient infant rodent born from an alien space travelling seed that crash-landed on primordial earth.
MATTER FISHER
Director: David Prosser
Run Time: 7 minutes
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Seattle Premiere!
A perplexed fisherman becomes united with a fragment of estranged matter.
OLIVER BUMP'S BIRTHDAY
Director: Jordan Canning
Run Time: 16 minutes
Country: Canada
Year: 2011
Seattle Premiere!
On the eve of his 13th birthday, child prodigy Oliver Bump is about to die -- unless his mysterious plan can save him from his impending demise.
TIME FREAK
Director: Andrew Bowler
Run Time: 11 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2010
A neurotic inventor creates a time machine only to get lost traveling around yesterday.
TERMINUS
Director: Trevor Cawood
Run Time: 8 minutes
Country: Canada
Year: 2007
A businessman inadvertently offends a concrete megalith and has trouble ridding himself of his unlikely stalker.
BIRDBOY
Director: Pedro Rivero and Alberto Vasquez
Run Time: 13 minutes
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
A terrible industrial accident changes Little Dinki's life forever. Now Dinki's fate may ride on the wings of her eccentric friend Birdboy, a misfit who hides in the Dead Forest lost in his fantasies.
THE CAPTIVUS
Director: Casey Tebo
Run Time: 14 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Seattle Premiere!
For six years, two humanoid men have sat aboard a tiny, cramped, rescue ship, searching deep space for a lost freighter. When the ship receives transmission that one of them is finally leaving the mission, they have no choice but to spend their last moments reflecting on their relationship. What has being in this small place for this long, done to these men?
CARTA A JULIA
Director: David González Rudiez
Run Time: 7 minutes
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
Seattle Premiere!
Maria and Paco, a retired couple, have decided to leave behind the noisy and stressful city and move to the countryside. One day Paco comes back from his morning walk with an incredibly odd tale. Maria needs to share it with her best friend Julia and writes her a letter.
CRYSTAL JAM
Director: Leonie Savvides
Run Time: 15 minutes
Country: Australia
Year: 2010
N American Premiere!
Crystal and James fell in love in an online fantasy world, but never met in real life. When James suddenly dies, Crystal travels to attend his funeral. But some residue of James is still alive online.
THE DUNGEON MASTER
Director: Rider and Shiloh Strong
Run Time: 13 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Shane and his friends thought it would be fun to recapture their geeky youth with a game of Dungeons and Dragons. But then someone showed up in a cape.
THE EPIPHANY
Director: SJ Chiro
Run Time: 7 minutes
Country: USA
The Epiphany, Earth's subtlest, secretest, most selfless superhero, finds himself strapped to the chair of death by his nemesis: the snide, jaded, and callous French Supervillain Le Petit Mort! Based on a short story by Jonathan Lethem, which is based on a painting by Scott Alden.
THE HUNTER AND THE SWAN DISCUSS THEIR MEETING
Director: Emily Carmichael
Run Time: 8 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2010
Seattle Premiere!
A Brooklyn couple have dinner with a hunter and his girlfriend, a magical swan woman.
It doesn't go well.
MADAME PERRAULT'S BLUEBEARD
Director: A.J. Bond
Run Time: 6 minutes
Country: Canada
Year: 2010
Seattle Premiere!
A fantasy re-envisioning of the classic fairytale Bluebeard by Charles Perrault, in which Perrault's young wife reads herself into his dark allegory on marital mistrust.
PROTOPARTICULAS
Director: Chema Garcia Ibarra
Run Time: 7 minutes
Country: Spain
Year: 2010
The experiment was almost a success: protomatter exists.
THE SIERRA PROJECT
Director: Gabriel de Urioste
Run Time: 15 minutes
Country: USA
Year: 2011
Seattle Premiere!
Scientist Sam Newman has dedicated his life to researching and unlocking the secret of how the human brain functions. When his latest attempt to copy the neural network of a human brain into a computer construct fails, he must come to terms with his personal sacrifices and the strange consequences of his work.
JURY
A nationally recognized panel of distinguished film, television, literature, and science fiction industry professionals, peers and film critics, will review qualifying submissions and determine the winners.
SFFSFF 2012 Jury:
Jon Landau
Simon Cartwright
Paul Constant
Jessica Cope
Dave Goldberg
Howard McCain
Ilona Rossman Ho
Adam Sekular
AWARDS
Grand Prize
Second Place
Third Place
Douglas Trumbull Award for Best Special Effects
Audience Favorite
FORMAT
10 short films will screen in the first session 4:00pm-6:00pm.
10 short films will screen in the second session 7:30pm-9:30pm.
An awards ceremony follows the second session. Some films may contain adult material, parental discretion advised.
MISSION & OBJECTIVE
The Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival promotes and encourages an awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the art of science fiction and fantasy cinema to create a forum for creative artistry in science fiction and fantasy film, and recognize the most outstanding short films produced. The film festival is co-sponsored by EMP and the Seattle International Film Festival(SIFF).
Questions?
Contact EMP public programming at filmfest@empmuseum.org
