SCI-FI SHORTS Run Time: 94 minutes
The Wars of Other Men
The Horizon Project
Screening Times: Friday, April 4 at 9:15 am Saturday, April 5 at 9:45 pm
Directed by: Scott Belyea Survivors of a biological pandemic find refuge with Horizon Corporation, a company spearheading the global rebuild.
Directed by: Rose Brauner When the written word has been destroyed in the name of power, many are forced to seek out creative means of preserving and attaining it.
Directed by: Mike Zawacki Set in an alternate 1920s-era world at war, a Lieutenant is fighting for an army on the verge of defeat against an enemy using a new chemical super weapon known as the Fog. When his superiors learn where the Fog is manufactured, the Lieutenant is ordered through the war-torn city to capture the scientist responsible for its creation.
Pale Blue Dot
The Escape
Directed by: Aaron Schuppan An astronaut travels into the near future to find herself a lone survivor - the world she knows destroyed. She must return to the past to warn the earth’s inhabitants, but can she go back?
Directed by: Ivano Di Natale In a not-specified time, a man tells how he managed to escape from his pursuer and how his mission can change the destiny of mankind.
Library
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The Developer Directed by: Robert Odegnal In an alternative Budapest, a dictatorship is controlled by a company called Golden Dimension. Lens is a dark, cynical character with the ability to burn the pictures of the past and the future into photosensitive paper. When sensitive documents are stolen from the president of the Golden Dimension’s home, Lens gets the task of finding the person who could ruin the oppressing system by using the stolen evidence.
SCI-FI SHORTS B Run Time: 101 minutes Screening Times: Friday, April 4 at 10:00 pm Sunday, April 6 at 9:45 am
Liftoff Directed by: Nir Yaniv A rocket launches and flies to the moon, but the danger the astronaut finds there isn’t what it seems on first sight.
LiFi Directed by: Preston Peterson In the midst of the greatest scientific discovery of our generation, three young scientists face an ethical dilemma when their latest experiment goes a little too ‘right.’
Cell Phone of the Future
My Date with Adam
Directed by: Snehal Patel It’s 2025 and everyone is looking for new ways to connect. But what if they want everything to happen faster than the speed of thought? The only bottleneck in this interaction is the speed at which a person can input commands into their device.
Directed by: Dennis Schebetta A wedding planner uses Internet dating to find the perfect man--only to discover that he’s more than just perfect, he’s a robot.
Your Cocoon and You Directed by: Dallin Cerva Best friends and roommates. Jed’s is disappointed that Tony is getting married and moving out. One morning Jed wakes up and finds Tony hanging from his ceiling in a giant human cocoon. Tony emerges with a new set of large wings. Jed must decide whether to allow Tony’s metamorphosis to ruin his impending wedding day or help him destroy the wings before Tony’s fiancé finds out.
Passing
LiFi
Directed by: Stephen Sherwood Twenty-two years ago, John made arrangements for his death. Now that the time is at hand, he’s having second thoughts.
Doug.Dat Directed by: Christopher Rowell Doug.Dat is the story of a digital ghost confronted with oblivion and forced to justify himself to history.
Sad Monster Directed by: Kurt Dettbarn The short film attempts to capture a moment in the life of Kurt’s 2 year old daughter (Maja) as she outgrows the imaginary monster in her closet.
B-Class Cultural Heritage Directed by: Yuji Hariu Skater boy Akira stepped on a manhole registered under the mysterious group called ‘B-Class Cultural Heritage Association.’ As a penalty for standing on the manhole, his life is under threat for the next 3 minutes. Can he survive the longest 3 minutes ever in his life, and win a prize? WWW.PHXFILM.COM
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