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Get Ready for the Next
Red Pill Adventure
September 29th, 2023

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Selected Films

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ARK

Aftermath

Answers

Antumbra

Black Hole

Carrier

Clarence of Tomorrow

Cognition

Cold Launch

Disembodies

Dream Child

EJE (Blood)

Faces

Heartland

I Miss Us

It's Not Safe Outside

Jettison

Kaiju Decode

Kairos, Qualitative Time

Mars Zone

Maya

Miniature Landscapes - In Space

Mountain Climber

Navel Gazers

Order & Chaos

Pick Me Up

Polvotron 500

Remembrance

Remnant

Rewind

Rock Em Sock Em

SHE

Spaceship

Strange Lover: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Quarantine

Strong

Study Above

Tales for Tomorrow

The Alternate

The Dark Odyssey

The Gazer

The Kevorkian Effect

The Last Touch

The Marker

The Mystic of Us

The Six

The Stamp Collector

To Carry Underneath

Toys

Transfert

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Welcome to Forever

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2023 Venue

When:
Sept 29 - Oct 1, 2023
Where:
Town Center at Peachtree Corners
Questions:
See our FAQ Page
Tickets:
$20 Buy here

Attention Filmmakers!!!

This year were accepting short sci-fi films for our annual festival competition and our newly added 48-hour Sci-Tech Film Challenge. Read more below.

Take on the 48 Hour Sci-Tech Film Challenge!

The 48 Hour Sci-tech Film Challenge is a test of you and your team's ability to make a movie in only 48 hours.

more info

Accepting Film Submissions Now!

We accept Sci-Fi Film Festival entries on FilmFreeway, The world's #1 way to enter film festivals and screenplay contests. All rules and information can be found on our FilmFreeway page.

Festival Highlights

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Judges

Meet this year's film competition judges!

Chris LeDoux

Crafty Apes Founder | Senior VFX Supervisor

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Chris LeDoux

Alaskan born and bred, Chris earned bachelor’s degrees in both psychology and sociology, but his fascination with cinema and filmmaking instead led him to the world of visual effects. Now a veteran of the film industry, Chris’s impressive résumé includes compositing and VFX supervision on numerous films and TV shows, including 12 Years A Slave, Doctor Strange, The Greatest Showman, and Better Call Saul, among others. A gifted storyteller, Chris has also directed many music videos and led visual effects teams for U2, Chris Cornell, New Kids on the Block, and Paramore, just to name a few.

Emily Dean

Storyboard Artist | Director

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Emily Dean

Director of an upcoming episode of Netflix's Love, Death + Robots. Emily Dean is a creator, filmmaker, and artist from Australia living in LA. An Asian-Australian American Dean started drawing at age 3, making films at age 12, and working professionally as a storyboard artist for TV commercials at age 15. Her credits as a story artist include THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE, sci fi thriller HOTEL ARTEMIS, and the Academy Award winning animated short HAIR LOVE. Emily currently has a number of feature and streaming projects currently in development and is also working on an original graphic novel. For more info visit emilydean.net

Federico Furzan

Rotten Tomatoes Certified Film Critic

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Federico Furzan

Born on Earth (I think). Fundamentalist of Spielberg's take on aliens, both nice and evil, and seeker of fantastic stories in the hidden levels of indie cinema. Favorite film: Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Jesse Atlas

Writer | Director

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Jesse Atlas

Jesse Atlas is a writer and director known for crafting high-concept, character-driven genre thrillers. His latest mind-bending sci-fi short, “Let Them Die Like Lovers,” was a festival favorite at Tribeca Film Festival, Atlanta Sci-fi Film Festival and Urbanworld Film Festival 2018. It was recently adapted into a feature, marking Jesse’s feature directorial debut, DIE LIKE LOVERS, starring: Bruce Willis, Dominic Purcell, Nomzamo Mbatha, Andy Allo, and Mustafa Shakir. The film will be released theatrically in Spring 2022!

Industry Panels

Candid discussions with industry panels. Read more about this years panelists and watch the discussions online here: Industry Panels

Women in Sci-Fi

Music in Sci-Fi Done Right

Afrofuturism for Screenwriters

A Conversation with Panavision

Dune: A Scholarly Panel

Cinematography & Unit Photography