Interview:
Bears Rebecca Fonte,
founder/creative director,
Other Worlds Film Festival
The hybrid Other Worlds Film Festival will take place Dec. 2-5 at the Galaxy Theatres Austin and online Dec. 6-12. The in-person film festival opens Dec. 2 with the time-traveling saga Madelines directed by Jason R. Miller and cowritten with Brea Grant. In-person screenings close Dec. 5 with writer/director Dom Cutrupi’s social media sci-fi thriller Residents of Arcadia. The augmented-reality cautionary tale Sight Extended and the smart-house chiller Dark Cloud serve as the film festival’s Centerpiece Films. Other Worlds will bestow its annual "Defender of the Universe" award to director Randal Kleiser (Grease, The Blue Lagoon, Big Top Pee-wee, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid) and will hold a 35th anniversary screening of his 1986 Disney adventure Flight of the Navigator. Austin is represented by Dana Cowden’s space opera Nova and Zachary Endres’s allegorical supernatural drama Homebody: The Haunt of Guy Withers. Other sci-fi and genre selections include the documentary Tune Into the Future, about pioneer sci-fi fiction publisher Hugo Gernsback, and the narrative featuresThe Alternate, Blank, Boy #5, Kratt, Red Snow, Ultrasound, and When I Consume You. Minor Premise, which streamed during last year’s virtual Other World Film Festival, will return this year for an in-person screening with writer/director Eric Schultz in attendance. The majority of features and shorts screened at the Galaxy Theatres Austin—in addition to Other Worlds Film Festival selections from past years—will be available to stream Dec. 6-12.
Aired: Nov. 25, 2021. Web sites: https://otherworldsfilmfest.com https://www.facebook.com/OtherWorldsATX |
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