Science-Fiction Shorts
Tickets:
Saturday, March 14 – 4:55pm – Room C146
Sunday, March 22 – 12:10pm – Room B222
Anesthesia
A business executive meets his childhood mother in an anesthesia app during open-heart surgery, but is she there to help him?
Narrative • USA • 2025 • 13 Minutes
Director: Jeff Osborne
Writer: John Harden
Producers: Angelo Perrino
Executive Producers: Reagent Productions
Cinematographer: Jeff Osborne
Editor: Jeff Osborne
Composer: Steven Davis & Tori Letzler
Cast: Aaron Staton, Marianne June Noscheze, Arthur Waite, Tim Neff, Susana Woo, Shahrad Fredotti, Lauren DeShane, Jerry Marr
Festivals: San Jose International Short Film Festival
Alumni: Writer John Harden wrote and directed La vie d’un chien (LCFF 2006) and The Story Of Sputnick (LCFF 2009)
Public Contact: Jeff Osborne
Email Address: jeff@reagentproductions.com
Neo Dome
A woman hitchhikes to a utopia on the horizon. When she negotiates a ride we learn: trust no one on the road to the Dome.
Narrative • Action/Thriller/Science-Fiction • USA • 2025 • 15 Minute
Director: Bonnie Discepolo
Writer: Matthew Pfeffer
Producers: Matthew Pfeffer, Anna Camp, Michael Johnson, Valerie Steinberg
Cast: Michael Mosely, Nicholas Kowalzyk, Anthony Discepolo
Festivals: SXW, Cleveland
Alumni: Director Bonnie Discepolo also directed GraceLand (LCFF2020)
Clementine
A Nordic woman from the 1800s appears at the door of a man in modern day Brooklyn, they don’t hit it off.
Narrative • USA • 2025 • 10 Minutes
Director: Mike Doyle
Writer: Charles Warburton
Producers: Tara Kutz
Cinematographer: steven stauffer
Editor: Steven Stauffer
Cast: Charles Warburton, Christiane Seidel
Help Me Tom
The story of a retired robot and the rebirth of the town it loves.
Narrative • China • 2025 • 15 Minutes
Director: Jiahang Yang
Writer: Bo Wang & Philip Gelatt
Producers: Chang Baoling, Xiaoguang Chen, Lili Shen, Hanxia
Executive Producers: Lv Yi
Editor: Jiahang Yang
Composer: Robert Cairns
Festivals: IndyShorts, HollyShorts, Cleveland, Filmquest, Cordillera, Winter Film Festival, Newport Beach
Public Contact: Festival Formula
Email Address: submissions@festivalformula.com
Kamarade
In a soviet space station, Katerina the robot welcomes Yuri, her human comrade and counterpart. Together they will accomplish their space mission to make their nation proud. As soon as he arrives, a routine sets in and a friendship begins to grow. But one day, something shakes Iouri deeply. He changes, pulls away without saying why. Lost and confused, Katerina tries to understand what’s going on, before experienving a very human emotion: loneliness.
Narrative • France • 2025 • 8 Minutes
Director: Garance Valere, Valentin Okoundou, Hubert Chauvaux, Alice Bourget, Louise Laurent, Fleuriane Le Guillou
Writer: Garance Valere
Producers: Philippe Meis (Supinfocom Rubika)
Editor: Hubert Chauvaux
Public Contact: Patrick De Carvalho
Email Address: patrick2carvalho@gmail.com
We Regret To Inform You
Set in a dehumanized society of the near future, technology has replaced nearly all human interaction, isolating people under the guise of ‘optimization.’ In this setting, the government provides ‘last day notification’ services wherein all citizens are contacted with a 24-hour courtesy call warning them of their impending death. Precisely one day before her predetermined passing, Mariam receives such a call from Bob, a real-life operator that is on his first day on the job, informing her of her final day.
Narrative • USA/Greece • 2025 • 13 Minutes
Director: Michelle Bossy
Writer: Zina Wilde
Producers: Michelle Bossy, Zina Wilde, Thalia Mavros & David M. Night Maire
Cinematographer: Jack Schurman
Editor: James Camali
Composer: Rowen Merrill
Cast: Zina Wilde, Kai Lennox
Festivals: East Lansing Film Festival
Public Contact: David M. Night Maire
Email Address: dmnightmaire@gmail.com