Interview:
Bears Rebecca Fonte,
founder/creative director,
Other Worlds Film Festival
After almost a decade of bringing independent sci-fi cinema to Austin, the Other Worlds Film Festival will come to a close with this year’s ninth and final edition. The film festival kicks Dec. 1 with its launch film Mad Heidi, officially opens on Dec. 2 with the world premiere of the time-travel heist caper The Tomorrow Job, and closes Dec. 4 with techno two-hander Between Before. Austin is represented by Emily Hagins’ horror comedy Sorry About the Demon and Aaron B. Koontz’s horror anthology Scare Package 2: Rad Chad’s Revenge, both produced by the local genre production company Paper Street Pictures and soon to stream on Shudder. Other sci-fi films include Backwards Faces, The Butterfly Queen, Echelon, Polaris, Snatchers, Timescape, and the documentary Beyond Tomorrow. The Underworlds horror selections include Brightwood, Mother, May I?, the bodily integrity anthology Give Me an A, and Dark Nature, which will screen in 35mm. The Wicked Worlds dark thriller selections comprise of Cult Hero, Have Hold Take, and Influencer. The Other Worlds Film Festival will also hold a 40th anniversary screening of animator Don Bluth’s The Secret of Nimh and a retrospective screening of Peter Hyams’ 2010: The Year We Make Contact. There also will be four packages of short films. The Other Worlds Film Festival will host the First Annual and Final “Final Countdown” party, featuring the trivia contest The Big Quiz Thing: Sci-Fi Edition, at 7 p.m. Nov. 30 at the Aristocrat Lounge as well as a launch party at 7 p.m. Dec. 1 at the Aristocrat Lounge, a brunch at 10 a.m. Dec. 4 at Vamonos, and the Other Worlds Holiday Special wrap party at 10 p.m. Dec. 4 at Kick Butt Coffee.
Aired: Nov. 29, 2022. Web sites: https://otherworldsfilmfest.com https://www.facebook.com/OtherWorldsATX |
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