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Founder’s Log: Stardate 2016 Three years ago, we set the controls for the heart of the sun, like some underappreciated Danny Boyle film, and put our trust in the cosmic echoes that signaled the need for a dedicated SciFi festival. Along the way we’ve presented yearly films through our Other Worlds Orbiter screening series, established the Mary Shelley Award to encourage the involvement and representation of women in genre filmmaking (the only award of its kind), and created The Dan O’Bannon Award, a filmmaking grant named after one of SciFi’s truly original thinkers and a classic self-starter. I spent much of this year traveling with my own short (ROADSIDE ASSISTANCE—you saw it last year), as far as London and Lund, Sweden. I’ve seen all sorts of festivals, big and small, genre and general, each with their own spin on ‘the show.’ Every time I saw a great film I thought “I can’t wait to show this to our audience.” Because you are the best audience in the world. That excitement is why I started the festival in the first place. And screening classics like BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, DARK STAR and ISLAND OF LOST SOULS feels like sharing a beloved film with a friend. Don’t tell George Lucas, but my favorite childhood film was Corman’s ‘Magnificent Seven in Space.’ And it is an honor to decorate Sybil Danning with our inaugural Defender of the Universe Award. It is with that same enthusiasm we also add Under Worlds Austin to the mix. SciFi and Horror share the same heritage - they put voice to mankind facing the unknown. If SciFi reflects the piercing light of imagination and research, Horror sinks into the shadows of fear and doubt. If SciFi can transport you to other worlds of possibility, Horror often reveals the darkness just under the world we know. So, welcome to Other Worlds Austin 2016. We have anime, robots, aliens, time travel, virtual reality, ghosts, documentaries, cursed furniture, and Bela Lugosi. And we have a dedicated team that works all year to put this on, a team I rely on for their support, their taste, and their wiliness to climb aboard starships, headed for the sky. Enjoy.
Bears Fonté
Founder and Director of Programming Other Worlds Austin
defender of the universe first night gala
Battle Beyond the Stars Space Opera
Jimmy T. Murakami | USA | 105 min Dec 1st, 7:42 (Alpha)
Writer: John Sayles Cast: Richard Thomas, Robert Vaughn, John Saxon, George Peppard & Sybil Danning A young farmer (Richard Thomas) sets out to recruit mercenaries to defend his peaceful planet, which is under threat of invasion by the evil tyrant Sador (John Saxon) and his armada of aggressors. Among the mercenaries are a Space Cowboy (George Peppard), a spacegoing truck driver from Earth (Morgan Woodward); Gelt, a wealthy but experienced assassin looking for a place to hide (Robert Vaughn); and Saint-Exmin, a Valkyrie warrior looking to prove herself in battle (Sybil Danning). The film was legendarily pitched as ‘Magnificent Seven in Space.’ Produced by Roger Corman in the wake of the Star Wars cash-grab phenomena, the film also features one of the first scores from James Horner, and the below-the-line talents of Gale Ann Hurd and James Cameron.
Defender of the Universe, Sybil Danning
The Defender of the Universe Award honors a cinematic star or mentor whose heroic actions help mold us into the future humans we aspire to be. In stories that examine what it means to be human, often in the face of rapidly developing technology, alternate histories or multi-galaxial space sagas where we are just one of the many players in a political landscape, SciFi heroes teach us who we are and what we value. In addition to BATTLE BEYOND THE STARS, Austrian-born actress and model Sybil Danning starred in a number of classic ‘B movies’ such as HERCULES, HOWLING II, JUNGLE WARRIORS, MALIBU EXPRESS, CHAINED HEAT, REFORM SCHOOL GIRLS, and AMAZON WOMEN ON THE MOON. She appeared on television in SIMON & SIMON, THE FALL GUY and V (The TV Series). More recently she appeared in Tarantino’s GRINDHOUSE, as one of the Werewolf Women of the SS and Rob Zombie’s HALLOWEEN.
opening night film
OMG, I’m a Robot?! (North American Premiere)
Technology with Unexpected Consequences Tal Goldberg, Gal Zelezniak | Israel | 75 min Dec 2nd, 7:00 (Alpha), 7:30 (Beta)
Writers: Tal Goldberg, Gal Zelezniak Cast: Yotam Ishay, Hili Yalon, Tzahi Grad & Rob Schneider Danny’s girlfriend Noa leaves him because he is “not manly enough.” Sad and lonely, he slits his wrists only to discover he is not a man at all, he is a robot—an indestructible war machine. Moreover, his girlfriend did not leave him—she was kidnapped by a mysterious organization searching for war machine like Danny. With the help of Goldschmidt, his overly macho boss, and Robo-Joseph, a small Jewish R2D2-like robot with a lot of “hutzpah,” he goes out on a journey to save his girl and also figure out why exactly is he a robot?! Living in a country full of conflict, the directors of the film play at pure escapism, but end up making a film that is stealthily deep. With war and death a daily commodity, how does one live as a pacifist? And can one remain true to themselves when they find out they don’t even know they are? OMG, I’M A ROBOT?! is a film about remaking yourself, or rather reprogramming yourself, to face the expectations of another person. Tal Goldberg has enjoyed a long career as a scriptwriter for international TV stations, YouTube channels and videogames. Gal Zelezniak created the Offscreen web series. OMG, I’M A ROBOT?! is the feature debut for both of them.
OMG, I’m a Robot?! screens with:
Indigo
Jody Wilson | Canada | 22 min Writer: Jody Wilson
After years of waiting, Takumi and his toy robot companion receive a message that they will be returning to their home planet. Suddenly he’s faced with a choice: follow his cosmic destiny or pursue his dream girl here on Earth.
oWA centerpiece film
Virtual Revolution (Texas Premiere) Cyberpunk Noir
Guy-Roger Duvert | France | 92 min Dec 3rd, 7:50 (Beta)
Writer: Guy-Roger Duvert Cast: Mike Dopud, Jane Badler, & Jochen Hägele Paris 2047: Half of the population is now permanently online, living their lives in a variety of game worlds, and leaving the reality behind. Private Investigator/Assassin-for-hire Nash finds himself employed by one of the corporations that build these virtual worlds to track down a group of terrorists who are killing the players (for real) from inside the game. When he infiltrates the terror cell, he finds that the lines between innocent and guilty are far blurrier and maybe the entire ‘game’ is rigged against the human population. Cut from the same DNA as BLADE RUNNER, Duvert’s film explodes with ideas, mostly about how we lose ourselves in our devices. The terrorists in VIRTUAL REVOLUTION are like most radicals, convinced of their own nobility and willing to do whatever they find necessary to achieve their ends. The corporations should also be recognizable as the pursuit of profit has always curbed the law somewhat, if only the moral one. Revolution is never simple. Guy-Roger Duvert has been working as a successful film composer in Hollywood for several years, scoring several feature films and blockbusters trailers (TRANSFORMERS 3, GREEN LANTERN, PROMETHEUS). His fantasy short CASSANDRA played 82 festivals and garnered 47 awards.
uWA centerpiece film
We Go On (Texas Premiere) Paranormal Exploration
Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton | USA | 90 min Dec 3rd, 7:40 (Alpha)
Writers: Jesse Holland, Andy Mitton Cast: Clark Freeman, Annette O’Toole, John Glover & Jay Dunn Miles Grisson lives in fear. His trepidation prevents him from even driving a car. But armed with a large sum of money, he decides to overcome his terror, not by facing it, but by offering a reward to anyone who can prove that after we die… we go on. When Grissom narrows down his leads to the three least crazy sounding—a scientist, a medium, and a world traveler with a ‘magic box’—he teams up with the unlikeliest of partners for his search, his mom. When Miles finally makes contact with a dead airline mechanic desperate to reconnect with the love of his life (who is still alive), the film treats us one of the most complete portraits of a ghost since Demi Moore spun her potter’s wheel. In WE GO ON, nothing is as simple as dead and alive, haunted and exorcised, and good and bad, which makes for one of the most thought-provoking films about the afterlife in recent years. Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton’s thriller YELLOWBRICKROAD premiered at the Slamdance International Film Festival in 2010. In 2013, they contributed a segment to the horror anthology film CHILLING VISIONS: 5 SENSES OF FEAR, which premiered on Chiller TV. Mitton is a sound designer, musician, and composer, most recently writing music and lyrics for THE GIFT OF NOTHING, commissioned and produced by the Kennedy Center. Holland is a motion graphics and visual effects artist. He created all the graphics for the Jim Hensonproduced show GOOD MORNING TODAY and designed international branding for such films as ARBITRAGE and ROBOT & FRANK.
closing night film
The Unseen (Texas Premiere) Paranormal Abilities
Geoff Redknap | Canada | 97 min Dec 4th, 7:40 (Beta), 8:10 (Alpha)
Writer: Geoff Redknap Cast: Aden Young, Camille Sullivan, Ben Cotton & Julia Sarah Stone Bob Langmore, an ex-hockey pro, lives like a shadow, a loner in tiny mill town far from the family life he abandoned. When he finally reconnects with his rebellious daughter, he chances her discovering his secret, that he is literally disappearing, his flesh vanishing in chunks right before his eyes. When she goes missing, he must risk everything to find her, before he is gone for good. A drama with the trappings of genre, Redknap’s film is as much about absentee fatherhood as anything, invisibility serving as a metaphor and providing the foundation for a gritty crime thriller about running from your past. Geoff Redknap, before turning to writing and directing, spent years working in the makeup and special effects departments of features such as DEADPOOL, WATCHMEN, THE CABIN IN THE WOODS and both the FINAL DESTINATION and X-MEN series, as well as TV shows such as THE X-FILES and FEAR THE WALKING DEAD. His short, THE AUBURN HILLS BREAKFOWN played at festivals worldwide. This is his first feature.
shorts
The Call of Charlie
SciFi Shorts 1 - How to Recognize a Monster 92 min
Dec 2nd, 10:10 (Alpha)
Kepler X-47 (Texas Premiere)
Populace (Texas Premiere)
Writers: Erin Li, Allison Lee
Writer: Dan Horrigan
Erin Li | USA | 13 min
Fetched from Earth as a perfect specimen, a woman adjusts to her new reality in a human zoo on an alien planet.
The Call of Charlie (Texas Premiere) Nick Spooner | USA | 13 min
Writers: Guy Benoit, John Simpson, & Nick Spooner A trendy Los Angeles couple sets up a blind date for a friend‌ with an Ancient Evil Deity From Beneath The Sea.
The Bulb
Calvin Lee Reeder | USA | 10 min Writer: Calvin Lee Reeder
Two strangers experience a bizarre phenomenon in a motel room, through the power of public access television.
Circles (US Premiere) Dean Puckett | UK | 15 min Writer: Dean Puckett
A pair of paranormal investigators may hold the key to the truth behind a string of crop circles outside their small town of Totnes, Devon.
Aaron Bevan Bailey | UK | 14 min
In a future sputtering under ecological ruin and selfimposed eugenics, one couple searches for hope in their own love.
Bears Discover Fire (Texas Premiere) Ben Leonburg | USA | 14 min
Writers: Ben Leonberg, Alex Cannon, & Scott Riehs An uncle-nephew camping trip becomes a journey of wonder when they come upon a family of bears that have discovered how to use fire.
Monsters (Texas Premiere) Steve Desmond | USA | 12 min
Writers: Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman Jenn lives in an underground bunker, protected from the monsters that daily ravage the world. Today she goes outside.
Una Mujer Sin Precio 1961
SciFi Shorts 2 - Tomorrow’s Hearts Broken Today 92 min
Dec 4th, 12:20 (Alpha)
Stripes (Texas Premiere) Tibo Pinsard | France | 4 min Writer: Tibo Pinsard
Another first date gets hijacked by two people unable to get past their own masks.
Memoir
Alexander Jeffery | USA | 17 min Writer: Paul Petersen
Dr. Theodore Maine is on the cusp of losing his job at Janus Labs where he is developing research for Alzheimer’s treatment, until a mysterious child arrives to change his future forever.
RAE (Texas Premiere)
Aaron Rovner | USA | 13 min Writer: Aaron Rovner
When an office robot gives a co-worker a friendly gift, the fragile balance between the employees in the office is pushed to a tipping point.
Una Mujer Sin Precio 1961 [A Priceless Woman] (Texas Premiere) Juan F. Moctezuma II | Mexico | 15 min Writer: Juan F. Moctezuma II
When a perfectionist scientist loses his wife to a car accident, he builds a robotic version to replace her, in this newly restored classic from the missing genre trailblazer, presented by documentarian Alaric Rocha.
The Lost City of Tomorrow Auden Bui | USA | 16 min Writer: Auden Bui
Sent to shut down a floating film archive orbiting high above Earth, a bureaucrat meets an android caretaker whose love of film makes him almost more human than his counterpart.
Beautiful Dreamer
David Gaddie | USA | 26 min
Writers: David Gaddie, Steven Kelleher, & Ken Liu Facing a terminal disease, a mother uses space travel and relativity to stretch her last two years over the lifetime of her baby daughter, building a relationship despite the longing and estrangement that mark seeing each other only once every seven years.
John the Carpenter
Under Worlds Shorts 96 min
Dec 3rd, 11:30 (Alpha)
Blight (US Premiere)
Nasty
Writer: Matthew Roche
Writer: Anthony Fletcher
Briane Deane | Ireland | 15 min
Prano Bailey-Bond | UK | 15 min
A young priest travels to an isolated island community to face a dark supernatural force that has consumed a young woman.
Exploring the mysterious disappearance of his father, twelve-year old Doug is drawn into the lurid world of VHS horror ‘nasties,’ in Margaret Thatcher era UK.
Girl #2 (Texas Premiere)
Yo No He Sido (It Wasn’t Me) (Texas Premiere)
David Jeffery | USA | 9 min Writer: Kari Wahlgren
Even with a deranged killer running rampant inside the house, the girls still vie for leadership in the sorority.
Quenottes [Pearlies] (Texas Premiere) Pascal Thiebaux, Gil Pinheiro | France/ Luxembourg | 13 min Writer: Pascal Thiebaux
In many cultures, the tooth fairy that brings you a coin in exchange for the tooth under your pillow is a benevolent little mouse. But what if the teeth he collects are dental trophies, to be guarded at all costs?
Thump
Whit Spurgeon | USA | 4 min Writer: Stephen Newman
In the middle of the night, things should be quiet. Sometimes things go thump.
Ángel Ripalda | Spain | 12 min Writer: Santiago Manuel Taboada
Troubled at school, ten-year-old David complains he is not the one to be blamed for his mischief. His father hires a specialist to discover the truth.
John the Carpenter
Matt Braunsdorf | USA | 13 min Writer: Matt Braunsdorf
After a car accident throws his sister Anna into conflict with a terrifying monster, John constructs a trap to revenge his sister’s sacrifice.
Allhallowtide (Texas Premiere) Tia Salisbury | UK | 9 min Writer: Tia Salisbury
Dan has no time for housemate Molly today, which is just one more annoyance added to her being mute and dead for 180 years.
OWA features
Battledream Chronicle (Dec 3rd, Beta, 11:45am)
Battledream Chronicle (Texas Premiere)
Curtain (Dec 3rd, Beta, 10:15pm) Dystopian Societies
Alain Bidard | Martinique | 108 min Dec 3rd, 11:45 (Beta)
Writer: Alain Bidard Cast: Jacques Olivier Ensfelder, Yna BoulangĂŠ, & Steffy Glissant After the empire of Mortemonde reduces the populations of almost all the nations of the Earth to slavery, they force each slave to collect 1000XP every month in Battledream, a video game where they can die for real. Only the successful are granted the right to live until the next month. But Syanna, a young slave from Martinique, the last free nation on the planet, refuses to keep living under these condition.
Battledream Chronicle screens with:
Making Friends (Texas Premiere)
Kyle C. Mumford | USA | 7 min Writer: Kyle C. Mumford
A lonely old man needing a challenger in a game of chess, builds himself a robotic friend.
Blood Hunters (Dec 3rd, Alpha, 2:15pm)
Blood Hunters (Texas Premiere)
Technology with Unexpected Consequences Tricia Lee | Canada | 90 min Dec 3rd, 2:15 (Alpha)
Writer: Corey Brown Cast: Lara Gilchrist, Benjamin Arthur, Torri Higginson, & Julian Richings A single mother wakes up in a medical facility, mysteriously nine months pregnant, and finding everyone dead. As she struggles to escape she discovers the facility’s secret, the government has tampered with boundaries no mortal should cross. When they return, they are not alone.
Dark Star (1974) Space Travel
John Carpenter | USA | 83 min Dec 3rd, 4:50 (Alpha)
Writers: John Carpenter, Dan O’Bannon Cast: Dan O’Bannon, Dre Pahich, & Brian Narelle On a 20-year mission destroying planets to clear a path for navigation routes, the crew of the Dark Star struggles to persuade a self-aware bomb it is time to detonate. Even the dead captain, stored in deep freeze, has little to offer in the way of advice. Possibly the first ever stoner space comedy, DARK STAR is presented in restored HD with the original space surfer (and inventor of the San Diego Chicken), Brian Narelle, the late O’Bannon’s wife Diane O’Bannon and Matt Lohr, coauthor of Dan O’Bannon’s Guide to Screenplay Structure.
Dark Star screens with:
Special Forces (Texas Premiere)
Phil Bucci | USA | 7 min
Writers: Phil Bucci, Marcus Perry A detective finds himself saddled with two not so super-powered superhero cops to save the city from a villain’s sinister plot.
Dark Star (Dec 3rd, Alpha, 4:50pm)
Domain (Dec 4th, Alpha, 5:15pm)
Domain (World Premiere) Post-Apocalyptic
Domain screens with:
Dec 4th, 5:15 (Alpha)
We Were Not Made For This World (Texas Premiere)
Nathaniel Atcheson | USA | 97 min Writer: Nathaniel Atcheson Cast: Britt Lower, Ryan Merriman, Sonja Sohn, Kevin Sizemore, and Beth Grant After a deadly virus wipes out most of humanity, the survivors wait alone in self-sustaining bunkers while the threat runs its course. Able to communicate through a networked video interface, their fragile social ecosystem is shattered when, one by one, they start mysteriously disappearing from their bunkers.
Colin West McDonald | USA | 4 min Writer: Paul Hornschemeier
A robot searches for his creator in the desert lands outside his city.
Ghost Rockets (Texas Premiere) Documentary
Michael Cavanagh, Kerstin Ăœbelacker | Sweden | 70 min Dec 3rd, 2:45 (Beta)
For years UFO-Sweden has attempted to solve a mystery that has baffled even the government, the Ghost Rockets. In 1946, over 2000 sightings were reported of missile shaped unidentified flying objects over Sweden and neighboring countries. Searching for proof, these life-long hobbyists commiserate and grow old together, bravely facing their continual failure by doubling down their efforts.
Ghost Rockets (Dec 3rd, Beta, 2:45pm)
Island of Lost Souls (Dec 4th, Beta, 3:25pm)
Island of Lost Souls (1932)
Technology with Unexpected Consequences Eric C. Kenton | USA | 70 min Dec 4th, 3:25 (Beta)
Writers: Waldemar Young, Philip Wylie, based on a novel by H.G. Wells Cast: Charles Laughton, Kathleen Burker & Bela Lugosi WORLD PREMIERE OF AN ORIGINAL SCORE by Jay Woelfel with composer in attendance. This Paramount Pictures 1932 black and white classic was the first film adaptation of the H. G. Wells novel The Island of Dr. Moreau, about an obsessed scientist who is secretly conducting surgical experiments on animals on a remote island. In addition to the score, this HD restoration is presented with a new full mix using other period sound FX and dynamics that weren’t possible in the early 1930’s.
Origin (North American Premiere)
Technology with Unexpected Consequences
Andreas Climent, Andre Hedeoft | Sweden | 92 min Dec 4th, 2:50 (Alpha)
Island of Lost Souls screens with:
Creatures of Whitechapel (Texas Premiere) Jonathan Martin | USA | 25 min Writer: Rebecca Martin
Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of London, searching for the perfect victims to help Dr. Frankenstein, her master, bring his Creation to life. A gendercharged twist on a classic tale.
Origin screens with:
María Fernanda in Time (Texas Premiere)
Writers: Andreas Climent, Andre Hedeoft Cast: Emila Hansson, Rikard Björk, Sandra Redlaff, & Rafael Pettersson
Xavier Pijuan | Spain | 9 min
When a bio-tech student is diagnosed with a terminal illness, his peers break moral boundaries to use untested research into cell aging to help him. As he shows signs of strange side effects that enhance his body’s properties, what seemed miraculous turns far more dangerous than they ever imagined.
In a scientific laboratory, an overprotective mother’s accident causes terrible consequences in her son’s spacetime continuum.
Writer: Xavier Pijuan
Origin (Dec 4th, Alpha, 2:50pm)
Somnio (Dec 3rd, Alpha, 10:15am)
Somnio (Texas Premiere) Dystopian Societies
Travis Milloy | USA | 103 min Dec 3rd, 10:15 (Alpha)
Writer: Travis Milloy Cast: Christopher Soren Kelly, Cassandra Clark & Jesse D. Arrow A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart his captors to find a way back to a world that may already be gone. Kept alive by a computerized jailer, his only means of psychological escape is to an imaginary coffee shop where he falls for a barista who may be imprisoned in the same loop or may not be real at all.
Stille Reserven [Hidden Reserves] (North American Premiere) Dystopian Societies
Valentin Hitz | Austria | 96 min Dec 4th, 12:45 (Beta)
Writer: Valentin Hitz Cast: Clemens Schick, Lena Lauzemis, Daniel Olbrychski, & Marion Mitterhammer With powerful companies running the Vienna of the not too distant future, only the privileged elite can afford death insurance. The rest suffer their corpses to be used long after their passing in life-support farms, until their debts are paid. When Insurance agent Vincent Baumann goes undercover to ‘sell’ activist Lisa Sokulowa on his services, he discovers a brewing revolution that may be worth cashing in his own policy.
Stille Reserven (Dec 4th, Beta, 12:45pm)
The Tribe (Dec 3rd, Beta, 5:10pm)
The Tribe (Texas Premiere) Post-Apocalyptic
The Tribe screens with:
Dec 3rd, 5:10 (Beta)
Summers Brothers | USA | 6 min
The Bench (Texas Premiere)
Roxy Shih | USA | 92 min Writer: Ian Paxton Cast: Anne Winters, Jessica Rothe, & Michael Nardelli An isolated family of three young sisters live out their days in a well-stocked ranch after a pandemic has consumed most of the known world. With the youngest suffering from the first stage of illness, a passing stranger offers more than just the outside world, he offers a new outlook on life.
Writers: Summers Brothers
A random encounter on a park bench reminds that there is more than meets the eye to every eye to meet.
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UWA features
The Axe Murders of Villisca (Dec 2nd, Alpha, 9:40pm)
The Axe Murders of Villisca Supernatural Terror
The Axe Murders of Villisca screens with:
Dec 2nd, 9:40 (Alpha)
Catch (US Premiere)
Tony E. Valenzuela | USA | 78 min Writer: Owen Egerton Cast: Robert Adamson, Jarrett Sleeper, Alex Frnka, & Jon Gries Three outcasts break intoBeta, the house where a husband and wife, Curtain (Dec 3rd, 10:15pm) their four children, and two guests were executed. Exploring the museum-like site after hours, they find the evil that came to visit the Moores in Villisca, IA 104 years ago may still cling to the walls inside. Based on a real unsolved murder.
Paul Cooke, Dom Rees-Roberts | UK | 16 min Writers: Paul Cooke, Dom Rees-Roberts
A father tries to protect his daughter when she falls sick with an illness that has no cure.
Bed of the Dead (Dec 3rd, Beta, 10:30pm)
Bed of the Dead (Texas Premiere) Gothic Noir
Bed of the Dead screens with:
Dec 3rd, 10:30 (Beta)
Sarah Adams, Maggie Rieth Austin | USA | 6 min
Girl Ghost Getters
Jeff Maher | Canada | 85 min Writers: Jeff Maher, Cody Calahan Cast: Colin Price, Alyssa King, Gwen Cumyn, & Dennis Andres Four twentysomethings find themselves stuck on a haunted antique bed where leaving means suffering a gruesome demise. Plagued with frightening hallucinations, they must figure out the bed’s secrets before they are ultimately picked off one by one. The next day, a detective tries to unravel their deaths, but a phone call from one of the victims from the night before makes him think he can prevent it all.
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne
Writers: Sarah Adams, Maggie Rieth Austin Maggie and Sarah host a supernatural encounters vlog, but their need to film the perfect show blurs their perception between the paranormal and… well, normal.
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne screens with:
Found Footage/Slasher
Adrian Țofei | Romania | 87 min Dec 4th, 5:20 (Beta)
Writer: Adrian Țofei Cast: Adrian Țofei, Sonia Teodoriu, Florentina Hariton & Alexandra Stroe Obsessed with making a movie with Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway, a young director in Romania goes to shocking extremes with three local actresses to shoot scenes from the proposed movie to send to Anne as proof of his filmmaking and acting skills.
It Grows Dark (World Premiere)
Benjamin Capps | USA | 10 min Writer: Benjamin Capps
A demented, cyclopean teddy bear drawn on the scrap of paper leads Deke to a Tele-C booth where a voice on the other line gives him a message from Hell itself.
Be My Cat: A Film for Anne (Dec 4th, Beta, 5:20pm)
mary shelley award As part of its continuing effort to discover and celebrate female voices working in the genre field, we are proud to present the second annual Mary Shelley Award, awarded to the best film that furthers the involvement and representation of women in the SciFi genre. This award is sponsored by Canine Productions, producers of award winning indie shorts, music videos and documentaries. The Mary Shelley Award is named for the author of “Frankenstein.” the original SciFi novel – a work that examines the human condition and the positive and dangerous possibilities of science. The award will grant $500 to one film, either a short or a feature, already selected to play Other Worlds Austin in 2016. To qualify, the films must either: • Be written and/or directed by a female, or • Feature complex female protagonists driving the narrative and leading the action. This year’s finalists are: Tricia Lee – director/producer, BLOOD HUNTERS Erin Li – co-writer/director, KEPLER X-47 Rebecca Martin – writer/producer, CREATURES OF WHITECHAPEL Tia Salisbury – writer/director, ALLHALLOWTIDE Roxy Shih – director, THE TRIBE This year’s jury is: Anne Chaisson – Executive Director, Hamptons International Film Festival Alysia Reiner – Producer/Founder, Broad Street Picture (EQUITY - Sundance Jury award winner), actress (ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK, SIDEWAYS, EQUITY) Sarah Adina Smith – writer/director, BUSTER’S MAL HEART, THE MIDNIGHT SWIM
Dan O’Bannon AwarD The Other Worlds Austin Dan O’Bannon Filmmaker Award, a $1,500 grant for the production or post-production of a short film, is gifted to a filmmaker whose proposed short film follows our mission statement’s explanation of a phenomenal SciFi film: a great story that isn’t afraid to push the boundaries of the audience, thrilling them both visually and intellectually. Statement from Diane O’Bannon (Dan’s widow): “When Dan O’Bannon and John Carpenter made DARK STAR they were ambitious students at USC. They both loved old horror and science fiction films which in the 1970s were despised as B movies. They were fired up to make what they wanted to see. It was personal. When USC Cinema Department told them their film would never be seen ‘on the circuit’ because it went 10 minutes over the time limit, they snatched the film away from the school and spent the next five years scraping up the money and doing the work to complete it. As we now know, this little film did lead to big things for both of them, but in ways they could not predict, in ways they never expected, and it took years for that future success to manifest itself. The steps that led these young men to success were ambition, a desire to make films they wanted to see, a wise and reasonable disregard for the ‘rules’ and perseverance beyond imagining. Dan’s advice to you would be: simply do it. Bring your vision into the world with energy. Your actions will bring results, even if they are not the kind you are hoping for or expecting.”
Other Worlds Austin is proud to present the inaugural Dan O’Bannon Filmmaker Award to the team behind THE GOLDEN RECORD PROJECT, Christopher Sibley, Writer/Director, Andrew Van Wyk, Writer/ Producer, Sean Faulk, Writer, and Michael Stine, Director of Photography. Inspired by the true story behind NASA’s Voyager Interstellar Mission, Sibley’s film follows famed astronomer Carl Sagan and author Ann Druyan as they lead a team challenged with encapsulating ‘what it means to be human’ onto a Golden Record that, billions of years later, becomes integral to the survival of a descendant of humanity: an AI astronaut. This year’s jury was: Jim Brunzell, Festival Programmer Meredith Johns, SFX Artist and Production House Executive Jean Ann Lauer, Fest Programmer/Director Andrew Matthews, Filmmaker Mike Saulters, Journalist Tishuan Scott, Actor Christine Thompson, Journalist
OWA staff list STAFF Bears Fonté Founder & Artistic Director Don Elfant Director of Marketing & Development Jordan Brown Associate Artistic Director Debbie Cerda Programmer & Hospitality Director Courtney Hazlett Programmer & Director of Operations Reid Lansford Programmer & Registration Director Mark Martinez Programmer & Social Media Director Tessa Morrison Programmer & Outreach Director Dan Repp Senior Programmer & Events Director Margaux Ryndak Sponsorship Director Michael Thielvoldt Programmer & Tour Director
INTERNS Taylor Covington, Summer/Fall 2016 Claire King, Fall 2016 SCREENING TEAM Brett Ryan Bonowicz Claire Carré Curt Chatham Bryan Costanich Eric Harrelson Randi Ludwig Mya Meza Robyn Paxman Kevin Podszebka Joanny Rivera Jody Slagle Charles Spano SCREENPLAY COMPETITION READERS Claire Gordon Kim Morgan Katie Murphy Julio Olivera Eddie Strait Ash Williams Lindsay Young
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Get your swag in The flix lobby!
schedule thursday, December 1st 7:42pm: Battle Beyond the Stars (105 min) Flix Brewhouse Alpha Theater (Supernova and Super Massive Black Hole Badges Only)
friday, December 2nd ALPHA Theater
BETA Theater
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OMG I’m a Robot?! (110m)
7:00
8:45
UWA: The Axe Murders of Villisca (102m)
9:40
11:22
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OMG I’m a Robot?! (110m)
7:30
9:15
SciFi Shorts: How to Recognize a Monster (92m)
10:10
11:50
saturday, December 3rd ALPHA Theater
BETA Theater
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UWA: UnderWorld Shorts (96m)
11:30
1:14
Blood Hunters (90m)
2:15
3:53
Battledream Chronicle (108m)
11:45
1:48
Ghost Rockets (72m)
2:45
Dark Star (83m)
4:50
4:05
6:31
The Tribe (92m)
5:10
6:56
UWA: We Go On (90m)
7:40
9:18
Virtual Revolution (92m)
7:50
9:30
Somnio (104m)
10:15
12:07
UWA: Bed of the Dead (85m)
10:30
12:09
sunday, December 4th 10:30am .......In space, no one can hear you type: A Screenwriting Workshop with Matt Lohr Austin School of Film - 2200 Tillery St, Austin, TX 78723
ALPHA Theater
BETA Theater
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SciFi Shorts: Tomorrow's Hearts Broken Today (92m)
12:20
2:00
Stille Reserven (96m)
12:45
2:29
Origin (92m)
2:50
Domain (97m)
5:15
4:39
Island of Lost Souls (70m)
3:25
5:09
7:09
UWA: Be My Cat: A Film For Anne (87m)
5:20
7:04
The Unseen (97m)
8:10
9:55
The Unseen (97m)
7:40
9:25
10:00pm: Closing Night Party Skinny Bob’s Billiards & Sports Bar - 300 Hesters Crossing Rd, Round Rock, TX 78681 Badge line policy: Be in line at least 15 minutes before the earliest time of either the Alpha or Beta screening of a particular time block. You are then guaranteed a seat at one of those screenings. If there is a particular screening of the two choices in that time block that you want to see, we suggest arriving earlier. If you arrive after 15 minutes before the screening you will have to go to the end of the General Admission line. UWA Screenings are open to all badgeholders. Black Hole and Super Massive Black Hole badgeholders have first priority. All films are unrated. Parental guidance is advised. Commemorate your festival experience! Shirts, hats and signed prints of the official Other Worlds Austin poster are available in the lobby.