Official Selections: 5th LA Sci-Fi Film Festivals
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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Sentence!
Short
Only few tenacious human writers (Brian, Edward, and Alice) remain in the realm of creation while flawlessly beautiful sentences created by Athena (AI writer) bombard human writers every minute. Now, human writers must decide whether to soldier on until death as writers or leave the realm of creation to live as human beings.
Director: Seungmin Cho
Producer: Seungmin Cho, Eunae Park
Writer: Seungmin Cho
Cast: Yeongpyo Kim, John D. Michaels, Lenina Karlsson, Amy Aleha
Editor: Seungmin Cho
- Manhattan Film Festival(2023); Best International Short
- Scifian Festa(2023); The Vision of Scifian(2nd place winning in the International Film Section)
Instagram: @sentence_shortfilm
Summerville
World Premiere
Short
After an Alien invasion, the invaders decide to convert humans to a work force… An underground resistor, the Ghost, has some special skills that helps in the fight.
Director: Anthony Di Pietro
Producer: Paul Darrigo
Writer: Anthony Di Pietro
Cast: Paul Darrigo. Danny Barclay, Nika Khitrova
Editor: Aaron Castro/ Paul Darrigo
- Indiefest, Indie Short Fest, Iconic Images Films, Skiptown Playhouse International Film Fest, Fantasy/Sci-FI Film & Screenplay Festival
Facebook: fb.com/profile.php?id=100063577104522
Yatra: The Journey
Short
After the two boys she tutors go missing, a grieving widow journeys into a mythical realm to rescue them from legendary demons straight out of the Indian epics of old.
Director: Gayatri Bajpai
Producer: Brad Roller, Matthew Roseman
Executive Producer: Vee Kumari
Writer: David Barbeschi
Cast: Vee Kumari, Asit Vyas, Aroon Nayer, Mariel Flores, Suriyan Di Ianni, Rayaan Kamal Khan
Cinematographer: Alan Mykitta
Editor: Matthew Roseman
Instagram: @yatra_film
Facebook: fb.com/yatrafilm
STARSHIP
US Cinematic Premiere
Animated Short
An astronaut fulfills her fathers wishes.
Director: christian Debney
Producer: Christian Debney Jonathan Hairman
Writer: Christian Debney
Editor: Christian Debney
- Winner best animated film:Sydney Sci fi festival 2023
- Winner best animated film: Liverpool indie awards 2023 UK.
- Winner: Outstanding achievement award: Bests Shorts film competition USA
Created by one person over a year and a half. Starship has been celebrated in 3D world magazine and other animation industry magazines as an extraordinary accomplishment.
Website: chaos.com/blog/how-v-ray-phoenix-and-chaos-cloud-helped-starship-shoot-for-mars
Instagram: @christiandebney_digitalart, @Stage23 vfx
Twitter: @christiandebney
Facebook: @christiandebney
The John Experiment
West Coast Premiere
Short
After a trauma threatens to ruin his marriage, a desperate man signs up to participate in a psychological study on happiness, only to discover too late that happiness was never the goal.
Evan Gaustad (The Office, Arrested Development) stars in this psychological thriller about a man who signs up to be part of a happiness experiment. Isolated in a room for months, he only has an artificial intelligence called IVY as his companion, and a cabinet that provides him with whatever he needs… as long as IVY approves of course. As the experiment progresses, and the AI begins to make more and more decisions on John’s behalf, he begins to doubt whether happiness was ever the goal. A portrayal of the subtleties and hypocrisies of grief, coupled with humanity's rapidly increasing reliance on AI to solve its problems, The John Experiment asks one simple question: what are we willing to do to achieve happiness?
Director: Dmytry Karpov Kinrade, Lux Karpov Kinrade
Producer: Lux Karpov Kinrade, Dmytry Karpov Kinrade,
Writer: Dmytry Karpov Kinrade, Lux Karpov Kinrade
Cast: Evan Gaustad, Lux Karpov Kinrade, Nichole Rakes
Editor: Dmytry Karpov Kinrade
Website: thenightfirm.com/thejohnexperiment
Instagram: @karpovkinrade
Twitter: @KarpovKinrade
Facebook: fb.com/KarpovKinrade
ZIB
Short
Atonin Zib, granted eternal life by three mysterious figures, must in return carry out deadly tasks to ensure their clandestine control over humanity.
Director: Jonathon Gauthier
Producer: Jonathon Gauthier, Rob Kraut, Connor Paterson
Writer: Jonathon Gauthier
Cast: Don Scribner, Brock Morse, Tori Zaitonia, Koji Fueta, Theodore Mark Martinez, Maliah Arrayah
Editor: Rob Kraut
Website: imdb.com/title/tt27906007
Instagram: @zibmovie