Official Selections: 7th LA Sci-Fi Film Festivals
Congratulations to our accepted filmmakers!
Films are listed in alphabetical order, index to the left.
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Pleroma
When the machines of a Robotics Manufacturing plant turn on their workers - their only hope is a discarded prototype built by an amateur.
Director: Chris Browne
Producer: Kiana Aletaha
Writer: Chris Browne / Tim Hedrick
Cast: Kiana Aletaha, James Zickmantel
Cinematographer: Chris Browne
Editor: Chris Browne
Awards: Leo Award Winner Best Visual Effects, LA Film Invasion Best Sci Fi,
Instagram: pseudopod7
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.browne.5623?mibextid=ZbWKwL
The Awakening
Music Video
Los Angeles Premiere
The Awakening is a psychedelic sci-fi music video inspired by a profound ayahuasca journey. Blending original music, contemporary dance, and otherworldly imagery, it unfolds as a cosmic fever dream, evoking interdimensional travel through elevated states of consciousness to explore themes of identity, authenticity, and radical transformation, guided by what shamans call the Divine Feminine, a nurturing energy beyond labels, guiding through portals where the ego is forced to die and reinvent itself.
Director: August Falcon
Producer: August Falcon
Writer: August Falcon
Editor: August Falcon
Website: www.augustfalcon.com
Instagram: https://instagram.com/augustfalcon
Facebook: https://facebook.com/augustfalcon
Created on a micro budget through an intuitive process of weaving non-AI found footage with original music, The Awakening embodies August Falcon’s pursuit of visionary storytelling where music, cinema, and performance collide to create immersive worlds. It is the second release under his new artist name, a symbolic act of creative and spiritual rebirth after years of working as Justin Chase. His debut music video Embers has already earned recognition on the festival circuit with multiple Best Music Video honors, establishing the foundation for an upcoming album to be released as singles, each with their own unique music video, beginning October 2025.
Trad Brad
Short Film
West Coast Premiere
In a dystopian world where AI and loneliness are prolific, Brad just wants a traditional romance.
Director: Andy Comeau
Producer: Andy Comeau
Writer: Andy Comeau
Cast: Kevin Patterson, David Montalvo, Jessica Hottman, Dawn Lewis, Sophia LaVonne, Zara Roche, Barbara Lloyd, Christy Vogel, David Domenick
Cinematographer: Ashton Harrewyn
Editor: Andy Comeau
Awards: Best Vermont Short at the Vermont Film and Folklore Festival; Best Producer at the Green Mountain International Film Festival
Instagram: andycomeau7
Andy Comeau has been a professional actor for over 30 years. He began his career as a photo double for Tom Hanks in Apollo 13 and soon after booked the lead opposite Joe Pesci in 8 Heads In A Duffle Bag for Orion Pictures. What followed was many years of tv pilots, holding deals, guest spots, getting fired, blazing comebacks, working with a wild panther, agencies huge and tiny, independent films and a 19 piece New Orleans orchestra and cabaret show, Vaud and the Villains, he started with his wife, Dawn Lewis. He resides in Vermont and continues to make films and music there.
WIZDOM
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.WIZDOM is a neon-lit colony where daylight is scarce and humans live with bionic implants. Eos, a professional thief, is saved by a strange character, Carbon, who has a higher purpose for Eos and their younger sibling Vayle.
Director: Layne Marie Williams
Producer: Ashton Giaume, Grace Hahn, Aimy Tien
Writer: Ashton Giaume, Zack Sievers
Cast: Ashton Swinford, Simone Brazzini, Elizabeth Laidlaw
Cinematographer: Dan Franz
Editor: Mike Berg
Awards: Winner Silver Telly Award for Best Sci-fi, Winner Best Sci-Fi at Independent Shorts Awards
Website: www.ProjectWizdom.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Wizdom_film