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The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival Announces Finalists & Program Slate

Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival returns for a second year.

Brooklyn SciFi Movie Competition returns for a second 12 months with a digital festival at brooklynscififilmfest.com

“The various programming of the Brooklyn SciFi Movie Festival represents the unbiased spirit and global mother nature of Brooklyn, and the formal options celebrate and elevate the fantastic genre that is science fiction.” – Michael Brown, BSFFF Founder

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Pageant (BSFFF) right now declared 36 finalists for its 2021 festival.

The finalists were being picked out from 162 picks and will be viewed as for awards in 7 unique classes which includes Most effective Reside Action Short, Ideal Animated Brief, Most effective Comedy SciFi Limited, Finest Scholar Small and Best SciFi Aspect.

The week-extensive digital festival starts on September 20 and runs by September 26. All 162 alternatives, from 18 nations, will be readily available for viewing all through the seven times and viewers can cast their vote for their favorites. A People’s Selection choice will be introduced as component of an awards ceremony on September 25.

Highlighted picks in the animated brief class contain The Desert, an Australian movie directed by Michael Dockery, Tom, a Brazilian movie directed by Felippe Steffens and The Darkish Odyssey a Brooklyn-made film directed by Michael Lavine. Are living Action Limited picks contain No Warranty, a U.K. movie directed by Stuart Black and Nick Mather, H.E.N.R.I., a Canadian movie directed by Katarzyna Kochany and EP, a U.S. movie directed by Pat Campo.

Returning for its 2nd yr, the BSFFF will also function a Greatest in Brooklyn class highlighting movies produced by regional filmmakers, people today who studied filmmaking in Brooklyn and films that ended up shot in the borough.

Nearby films incorporate The Dark Odyssey, filmed in Brooklyn by Michael Lavine and nominated in the Animation Short class, C by Derek Van Gorder, a Brooklyn-based mostly filmmaker and nominated in the Are living Action Quick classification, Depart by Brooklyn-primarily based Mathilde Suissa, Elfenlied by Brooklynite Julian Griggs and Genesis, by Jorgan Duran who at present resides in Manhattan but analyzed movie at CUNY Brooklyn College.

Picks will be judged by a various and attained team of jurors which include award successful artist and filmmaker Peter Bolte, illustrator and author Jay Cooper, writer and journalist Brad Balfour and English filmmaker Mark Neale.&#13

System Timetable

The BSFFF also announced this week its plan plan with new events staying included each day. Pursuing the festival’s opening night time on Monday, September 20 the functions incorporate:

  • Tuesday – An Night of Japanese SciFi Cinema in association with the Jimbocho Motion picture Pageant in Japan and curated by New York Japan CineFest’s Hiroshi Kono.
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  • Wednesday – Grasshopper Film will host a virtual screening of Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin directed by Arwen Curry.
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  • Thursday – Movie Movement will host and stream Lapsis, which debuted at the 2020 SXSW and is directed by Noah Hutton.
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  • Friday – Kino Lorber will host a digital screening of the Man with the Magic Box directed by Bodo Kox
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  • Saturday – Dwell screenings and awards – Wythe Hotel – Williamsburg, Brooklyn

NEW AND RETURNING Attributes&#13

A new addition to this year’s competition plan is the “The Future Appears of Brooklyn,” which is a compilation of SciFi-impressed audio from musicians across the globe. The well-liked The Sixth Borough, a curated, BSFFF-produced series, which provides three superb science fiction small films united by a popular theme just about every day of the pageant, will return for the second calendar year.

BSFFF Founder and Government Director Michael Brown said, “The varied programming signifies the impartial spirit and worldwide nature of Brooklyn, and the formal options rejoice and elevate the great genre that is science fiction.”

The Brooklyn SciFi Movie Competition built a productive debut in 2020, in spite of a complicated calendar year, recognizing and premiering above 100 new, independent science-fiction films developed by filmmakers from 18 nations around the world all-around the entire world.

Submissions and other data can be found here: https://filmfreeway.com/BrooklynSciFiFilmFestival

To be certain you are among the very first to listen to any information associated to the festival, connect with the BSFFF here: https://brooklynscififilmfest.com/

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BSFFF 2020 Highlights

A long time Functioning: 2&#13

Movies Submitted: 220&#13

Films Selected: 100&#13

Nations Represented: 18&#13

U.S. States Represented: 16&#13

Awards &amp Recognition: 12 &#13

Attendance: 10,000+ online&#13

Site Views: 28,000+ on competition site&#13

Registered Attendees: 1,000+ registered for occasions&#13

FilmFreeway Score: 5 out of 5 Stars

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