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Founder’s Log: Stardate 2015 Year Two at Other Worlds Austin, and, like some sort of exponentially expanding zombie virus, the festival has grown faster than I could have predicted. Even if I had some sort of patented prophetic periscope stolen from a steampunk submarine on its way to search the murky depths for Ry’leh, this would be a surprise. Throughout the year we brought six unique SciFi films to Austin (CALL GIRL OF CTHULHU, THE QUIET HOUR, THE MIDNIGHT SWIM, LISTENING, NIGHTMARE CODE, AND UNCANNY), as well as added a Screenwriting Competition, increased outreach with other genre festivals across the country, and picked up a Best of Austin Award from the Austin Chronicle – Best Visions of the Future. I am also very proud to introduce the inaugural Mary Shelley Award, a groundbreaking prize sponsored by Canine Productions of Seattle. Even before announcing the award, I realized we were going to have a special program this year, with strong female protagonists in many of the films (POLDER, NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEB, CURTAIN), the female co-written and largely female ensemble of OTHER HALVES, and the female written and directed EMBERS, not to mention the gender-charged NO MEN BEYOND THIS POINT. There are even more films written and directed by women in our shorts programs, or placing female characters front and center. Or female robots. What else can you find in our program? Paranoia. Aliens. Bowler hats. LoFi Video Games. HiFi Video Games. Goggles. Zombies. Nazis. Pocket watches (did I mention there is a Steampunk documentary?) Don’t miss out on seeing at least one of the amazing shorts programs. And thank you for glimpsing over the horizon with us.

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Boy 7 (US Premiere) Dystopian Societies Özgür Yildirim | Germany | 110 min Dec 3rd, 7:42 (Alpha), 8:00 (Beta) Writers: Philip Delmaar, Marco van Geffen, and Özgür Yildirim based on the novel by Mirjam Mous Cast: David Kross, Emilia Schüle, Ben Münchow, Jens Harzer, Jörg Hartmann, Liv Lisa Fries Sam wakes up in the middle of the tracks of a subway tunnel. He can’t remember his name or how he got there. When he sees himself on a wanted picture, he realizes that his life is in extreme danger and his pursuers are hot on his heels. Unexpectedly, he finds a diary written in his own handwriting, and it seems to be the key to everything. When a young woman appears, who has the same burn as him on her left hand, a dangerous journey into the past begins. BOY 7 is a SciFi RUN LOLA RUN, an adrenaline dash through a dystopian society where juvenile delinquents are recruited by the government for their particular ‘skills.’ An adaptation of a best-selling young adult novel that made its World Premiere at Fantasia in Montreal. Özgür Yildirim was born in Hamburg in 1979. By the age of 14 he had already published his first novel, a horror story entitled “Grey Nights” (1993). The German-Turkish filmmaker completed his directorial studies at the Hamburg Media School. In 2009, his debut feature CHIKO a gangster drama, was nominated for four German Film Awards.

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No Men Beyond This Point (Texas Premiere)

No Men Beyond This Point screens with:

Alternate History

Roadside Assistance

Mark Sawers | Canada | 80 min

Bears Fonté | USA | 7 min

Dec 4th, 8:15 (Alpha), 7:45 (Beta)

Writer: Bears Fonté

Cast: Patrick Gilmore, Kristine Cofsky, Tara Pratt, Cameron McDonald, Rekha Sharma, Morgan Taylor Campbell

A mysterious woman stranded by the side of the road hitches a ride with a passing stranger – neither of them is who they seem.

An alternate history deadpan mockumentary following 37-year-old Andrew Myers, the youngest man still alive. With women able to reproduce without men since 1953, they’ve stopped giving birth to male babies entirely. Working as a housekeeper for a family of women, Andrew finds himself at the center of a battle to prevent men from going extinct. Men have gathered onto reservations, and the idea of a romantic relationship with one would be laughable. This brilliant, politically-charged film that just made its North American premiere at TIFF asks: what would the world be like if women were in charge? Mark Sawers graduated from the University of British Columbia in 1989 and has since been active as a screenwriter and filmmaker. He has developed various shorts, television series and fiction films. In Cannes, he won the Canal+ Award for Best Short Film for SHOES OFF! (1998). He also directed segments on The Kids In the Hall.

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Embers (Texas Premiere) Post-Apocalyptic Claire Carré | USA | 86 min Dec 5th, 7:30 (Alpha), 8:00 (Beta) Writers: Claire Carré, Charles Spano Cast: Jason Ritter, Iva Gocheva, Greta Fernández, Tucker Smallwood, Karl Glusman, Dominique Swain The world has moved on. In the wake of a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories explore life without recollection in a future that has no past. A boy longs for a role model, a young man embraces his rage, a teacher hunts for a cure, a couple clings to each other desperate to preserve their feelings, and a young woman wants nothing more than to forget. Filled with intense performances and breathtaking cinematography, this is the rare science fiction film that excels in its lack of exposition. An atmospheric tone poem in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, EMBERS captures the human condition, stripped away of everything but personality and instinct. Claire Carré is currently developing the science fiction episodic series The Singularity and her second feature, The Shade of the Sea. EMBERS was selected as one of ten narrative projects in the 2014 IFP Independent Filmmaker Lab. When she’s not circumnavigating the globe as a director and editor, she is in upstate New York playing video games, writing, and practicing archery.

shorts

Replika

Shorts Program 1 - In the Shadow of Our Creations 88 min Dec 3rd, 10:00 (Alpha)

Legacy

Artifitial

Josh Mawer | Australia | 14 min

David Pérez Sañudo | Spain | 20 min

Writer: Michael Richardson

Writer: Sergio Granda

To save his father’s brilliant mind, a young man is coerced into time-sharing his consciousness. With two minds in one body, boundaries and relationships start to blur.

Xabier goes for a job interview. But the company CORPSA is ready to make him an offer of more than just a job. And they won’t take no for an answer.

Replika Luc Walpoth | Switzerland | 26 min

Iris Richard Karpala | USA | 11 min Writer: Richard Karpala

Writers: Klaus Pas, Luc Walpoth Forced to terminate her only daughter, a dysfunctional 13-year-old android, a loving mother tries to convince her husband to adopt a human child. But in a materialistic and functional world, safety takes precedence over emotions.

The Pig Child Lucy Campbell | UK | 17 min Writers: Lucy Campbell, Scout Stuart A female scientist working in embryology carries out an illegal surrogacy using her own body, part human and part pig. Discovering that she is carrying a “pig child,” she is torn between her scientific drive and maternalistic urges.

A man uses his smart phone to assist in burying a dead body.

Pact

Shorts Program 2 - The Grind 79 min Dec 4th, 6:00 (Alpha)

Happy Fun Room

Yo Soy Pedro

Greg Pak | USA | 14 min

Jordan Inconstant | France | 11 min

Writer: Greg Pak

Writer: Jordan Inconstant

The host of a once-popular children’s television show clashes with her child co-stars, recalcitrant crew, and unsupportive studio execs, unwilling to acknowledge the changing world.

Two cops encounter a mysterious visitor, so they assume he must be a film actor.

Fragment

Pact Zach Endres | USA | 8 min Writer: Zach Endres

Noah Griffith | USA | 10 min Writer: Noah Griffith An Air Force jet breaks up over the desert. A mysterious radio signal draws the pilot away from the crash site. A discovery is waiting. And it is not of this Earth.

The Taker Maximillian Stenstrom | USA | 15 min Writer: Maximillian Stenstrom A government worker questions his responsibilities – endangering both himself and the world at large.

Viv 1.0 or They Must Have Forgotten Scarlet Moreno | USA | 9 min Writer: Scarlet Moreno One day in the life of ‘the perfect woman.’

Two loners contemplate ending their lives for the sake of an overpopulated Earth.

Aden Gary H. Lee | USA | 11 min Writer: Gary H. Lee A man stays one step ahead of nefarious forces in the race to find a child who may hold the key to mankind’s future.

The Trap

Shorts Program 3 - Back to the Future or The Power of Love 87 min Dec 5th, 5:15 (Alpha)

ON/OFF

Transference

Thierry Lorenzi | France | 13 min

Matthew Ninaber | Canada | 9 min

Writer: Thierry Lorenzi

Writers: Jennifer Lloyd, Matthew Ninaber, Aaron Tomlin

Obsessed with a mysterious voice message, astronaut Meredith must face its paradoxical condition in order to stay connected to her humanity.

A fatherâ€™s last words tell a cryptic tale of what the future may hold for his uniquely gifted children.

The Blood of Love

The Trap

Jeff Meyers | USA | 19 min

Dick Grunert | USA | 6 min

Writer: Jeff Meyers

Writer: Dick Grunert

A young woman goes out on the town each night to deal with the recent death of her husband.

A man invites his friend over one night to show off his latest invention.

Remote Viewing

The Surface

Kristen Anderson-Sauve | Canada | 10 min

Willem Kampenhout | USA | 20 min

Writer: Kristen Anderson-Sauve

Writer: Willem Kampenhout

A group of UFO enthusiasts attempt to lure a UFO to their campsite. Unfortunately, not everyone is there for the same reason.

Liz must go to the one place she dare not go in order to save her sonâ€™s life: the blighted surface of the old world.

Starlight Andrew Salerno | USA | 10 min Writer: Andrew Salerno On board a mission to a distant planet, Officer Emma Fremont discovers that her crew has been asked to leave more than just the Earth behind.

features

Curtain (Dec 3rd, Beta, 10:15pm)

Curtain (Texas Premiere) Parallel Universe/Alternate Reality Jaron Henrie-McCrea | USA | 73 min Dec 3rd, 10:15 (Beta) Writers: Carys Edwards, Jaron Henrie-McCrea Cast: Danni Smith, Tim Lueke, Martin Monahan, Gregory Konow, Lacy Marie Meyer, Rick Zahn Danni leaves nursing for a simpler life. But when her shower curtain keeps disappearing through a mysterious portal in her bathroom, she cannot let the investigation go. Enlisting the help of her Save-the-Whales co-worker, she dives into the unknown in an unsettling horror comedy that will flush the SciFi fan out with equal parts laughter and screams.

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House of Time (Dec 5th, Beta, 5:00pm)

House of Time (US Premiere) Time Travel Jonathan Helpert | France | 86 min Dec 5th, 5:00 (Beta) Writer: Jean Helpert Featuring: Maxime Dambrin, Laura Boujenah, Benjamin Wangermee, Julia Piaton, David Atrakchi Robert d’Eglantine has uncovered secret Nazi scientific research on time travel. He tells his guests he has taken them seventy years back in time, to 1944, during the French Occupation and only few weeks before the landing in Normandy. Although the house and everything inside seem the same, the appearance of a woman in the French Resistance, on the run from her

Nazi captors, make them question if Robert may just be telling the truth. Or is the woman just an actress? Or was she an actress before the occupation and now a revolutionary?

House of Time screens with:

Traveler Simon Brown | USA | 5 min Writer: Simon Brown When Blake’s invention successfully transports his girlfriend across the universe, there’s only one problem – what happens when she returns?

Jackrabbit (Austin Premiere) Post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian Societies Carleton Ranney | USA | 100 min Dec 5th, 2:45 (Alpha) Writers: Destin Douglas, Carleton Ranney Cast: Reed Birney, Josh Caras, Ian Christopher Noel, Joslyn Jensen, Logan Cunningham In the not-too-distant future, two hackers negotiate the dystopian City Six, one of the last vestiges of humanity after ‘The Reset.’ When a friend’s suicide leaves behind a mysterious computer drive, they must work together to decipher his final message. JACKRABBIT, a love letter to vintage gaming and computing, debuted at Tribeca and was a 2014 Austin Film Society Grant Recipient. Director Ranney was actually born and raised in Austin (does such a thing exist?)

Jackrabbit (Dec 5th, Alpha, 2:45pm)

Night of the Living Deb (Dec 5th, Beta, 10:15pm)

Night of the Living Deb (Texas Premiere) Technology with Unexpected Consequences/Post-Apocalyptic Kyle Rankin | USA | 86 min Dec 5th, 10:15 (Beta) Writers: Kyle Rankin, Andy Selsor Cast: Maria Thayer, Ray Wise, Chris Marquette, Michael Cassidy, Syd Wilder Thirty-something single gal Deb holds a terrible track record with men until she wakes up on the Fourth of July in the apartment of the most attractive man she’s ever seen. Unfortunately neither she nor Ryan can explain exactly why they spent the night together. Also there is a zombie apocalypse happening outside. Walk of shame turns to run for your life in this rom-com/zom-com.

Other Halves (Texas Premiere) Technology with Unexpected Consequences Matthew T. Price | USA | 87 min Dec 4th, 10:30 (Alpha) Writers: Kelly Morr, Matthew T. Price Cast: Lauren Lakis, Mercedes Manning, Lianna Liew, Melanie Friedrich, Sam Schweikert, Megan Hui On the night before its launch, a revolutionary dating app may have a few glitches – namely causing the user to lose all self-control and become an amoral, lascivious, violent follower of their most immediate urges. The logical end-product to society’s will to leave more and more decisions to technology, and to predictive logarithms that know us better than we know ourselves, OTHER HALVES would like to introduce you to the future of finding yourself. Hope you like what you see!

Other Halves (Dec 4th, Alpha, 10:30pm)

Polder (Dec 5th, Alpha, 10:00pm)

Polder (Texas Premiere) Technology with Unexpected Consequences Julian M. Grünthal, Samuel Schwarz | Switzerland | 95 min Dec 5th, 10:00 (Alpha) Writer: Samuel Schwarz Cast: Christoph Bach, Nikolai Bosshardt, Nina Fog, Philippe Graber, Friederike Kempter Gaming company NEUROO-X is set to release a new gadget, the Red Book, which promises to scan the most secret longings of gamers and transform them into fantastic adventures. When Marcus, its Chief Development Manager, mysteriously dies before its completion, his lover Ryuko searches inside the game for clues. The deeper she enters the digital world, the more she rewrites NEUROO-X’s programmed narrative, disappearing into a parallel world of demons, witches, knights, and terrorists.

Projet-M [Project M] (Austin Premiere) Space Travel Eric Piccoli | Canada | 98 min Dec 4th, 10:15 (Beta) Writers: Julien Deschamps Jolin, Eric Piccoli, Mario J. Ramos Cast: Jean-Nicolas Verreault, Julie Perreault, Julien Deschamps Jolin, Nadia Essadiqi, Pierre Verville Orbiting the Earth aboard a space station for 1,000 days to prepare for a mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, four astronauts face unforeseen crises when a war breaks out on Earth below. Arguing whether to break off their mission, or what to do about the loss of communication from headquarters, or what to do about the other satellites orbiting the Earth, the team finds themselves more alone than they could have prepared for.

Projet-M [Project M] (Dec 4th, Beta, 10:15pm)

Reconnoiter (Dec 4th, Beta, 5:30pm)

Reconnoiter (Texas Premiere) Space Travel Neil Rowe | USA | 80 min Dec 4th, 5:30 (Beta) Writer: Neil Rowe Cast: Ian Rowe Scientists have perfected a way to send a vessel across the galaxy quickly, teleporting a spaceship essentially to the nearest habitable planet. When the mission goes awry and the pilot crashes on the planet, he finds a world mysteriously devoid of life… but filled with dangerous robots ready to eliminate the alien interloper. Can he survive long enough to get a message back home?

T.I.M. The Incredible Machine (Texas Premiere) Technology with Unexpected Consequences Rolf van Eijk | Netherlands | 82 min Dec 5th, 12:30 (Alpha) Writer: Bastiaan Tichler Cast: Dyon Wilkens, Bas Keijzer, Claudia Kanne, Ernst Löw, Tim de Zwart Eleven-year-old Tibor has only one friend: his ancient house robot T.I.M. When his dad decides to replace the robot, Tibor saves his buddy from demolition. A hiccup in the robot’s memory log reveals he may have once been owned by the mythical robot inventor Hector Sammler, and this could be the key to having T.I.M. repaired. Robot and boy set off on a quest – a road trip into the past.

T.I.M. The Incredible Machine (Dec 5th, Alpha, 12:30pm)

Vintage Tomorrows (Dec 5th, Beta, 12:30pm)

Vintage Tomorrows (Texas Premiere) Documentary Byrd McDonald | USA | 67 min Dec 5th, 12:30 (Beta) Featuring: William Gibson, Bruce Sterling, Cherie Priest, Cory Doctorow, Claire Hummel, and musical acts Abney Park and Unwoman Can an imagined version of the past teach us anything about the future? Examining the explosive growth of Steampunk, its origins, its cultural significance, and some of the makers and thinkers behind it, VINTAGE TOMORROWS shines a directional lantern on the playful visions of yesteryear, through the goggles of a future unrealized. Bowler hats and monocles optional.

NBSZ TIFMMFZ BXBSE As part as its continuing effort to discover and celebrate female voices working in the genre field, we are proud to announce a new award for this year’s festival – the 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 2015. 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: Claire Carré – writer/director, EMBERS Nina Fog – actress, POLDER Lucy Campbell – writer/director, THE PIG CHILD Scarlett Moreno – writer/director/actress, VIV 1.0 or THEY MUST HAVE FORGOTTEN Carole Brana – actress, REPLIKA and ON/OFF This year’s jury is: Marjorie Baumgarten – Film Critic and Senior Editor at the Austin Chronicle, and member of the Association of Women Film Journalists Kristy Breneman – Creative Director and Programmer for the Atlanta Film Festival, one of the largest and longest-running festivals in the country Mynette Louie – Independent Spirit Award-Winning Producer and President at Gamechanger Films, the first for-profit film fund dedicated exclusively to financing narrative features directed by women

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TDIFEVMF Thursday, December 3rd ALPHA Theater

BETA Theater Start

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Boy 7 (110 min)

7:42

Boy 7 (110 min)

8:00

Shorts 1 (88 min)

10:00

Curtain (73 min)

10:15

Friday, December 4th ALPHA Theater

BETA Theater Start

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Shorts 2 (79 min)