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Jan 29^th, 2014 at 7:10pm

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Here is the full line-up for the FESTIVAL. Discuss.

http://www.bostonsci-fi.com/node/557

5:00 pm • Feb 7
Shorts Program #1
Flesh Computer
Cell Phone of the Future
i Brain
Kevin’s Book
Reboot
Contacts
A Better World
TICKETS

7:00 pm • Feb 7
THE NIGERIAN FREQUENCY
(US) World Premiere. In the near future, companionship is increasingly virtual, with a dark side. Don’t you need a Friendle? Doesn’t everyone?
Plus two great shorts
Amy Kid Zombie Speech Pathologist & Transits
TICKETS

3:00 pm • Feb 8
SHORTS PROGRAM 2
Strange Thing
Shift
The Forever People
Sleep
Desolate Road
The Argonaut
1211
Strings
Step Forward
TICKETS

5:00 pm • Feb 8
DUST OF WAR
(US) NE Premiere. A taciturn cowboy in a post alien invasion apocalypse is the key to realizing a young woman’s, and maybe humanity’s destiny, a destiny to freedom. dir. by Andrew Kightlinger
TICKETS

7:00 pm • Feb 8
L.F.O.
(Sweden) NE Premiere. With great power comes great responsibility. Nerdy neurotic discovers a harmonic controller and gets freaky. dir. by Antonio Tublen
TICKETS

9:00 pm • Feb 8
ANIMOSITY
(US) World Premiere. Married couple buy a remotely located house. Things are not what they seem as she slowly unravels the mystery of the house and herself. dir. by Brendan Steere
TICKETS

3 pm • Feb 9
SOS: SAVE OUR SKINS
(UK/Can) World Premiere.Two losers wake up to find that the human race has disappeared. Party time, right? Well, maybe. dir. by Kent Sobey
TICKETS

5 pm • Feb 9 SHORTS PROGRAM #3
Slam Man
Starving
Ike Interviews God
North Bay
Ascendants
Game Companion
Bar Talk
TICKETS

7 pm • Feb 9 SOLD OUT
INVERSE(US) World Premiere. A man awakens to find what, and even where, things used to be, aren’t. Rules will be broken. D: Matt Duggan

9 pm • Feb 9
INVERSE
(US) World Premiere. A man awakens to find what, and even where, things used to be, aren’t. Rules will be broken. D: Matt Duggan
TICKETS

5 pm • Feb 10
SCIENCE TEAM
(US)World Premiere. Man finds a sessile alien occupying his mother’s room. Oh yeah, he ate her, too. dir. by Drew Bolduc
TICKETS

7 PM • FEB 10
BUNKER 6
(Can) World Premiere. Survivors of the apocalypse struggle inside a bomb shelter while one of them is slowly killing. dir. by Greg Jackson
TICKETS

9 pm • FEB 10
DRAGON DAY
(US) World Premiere. A “Red Dawn” clone. China calls in its IOUs and it’s a brave, bad world. dir. by Jeffrey Travis
TICKETS

5 pm • Feb 11
AFTER EXODUS
(US) World Premiere. A enisled man confronts his guilt when his solitary world is disrupted by people from his past. dir. by Matthew F Perry
TICKETS

7 pm • Feb 11
TRAGEDY OF MACBETH
(US) NE Premiere. More than just strutting and fretting, this one whirs and clanks. The Bard with animated Bots.
Added short: Doug.Dat
TICKETS

9 pm • Feb 11
ECHO DRIVE
(US) World Premiere. A beautiful house, a beautiful wife. You may ask yourself, how did I get here? And what's with that security guard? dir. by Patrick Sims
TICKETS

7 pm • FEB 12
POINT B
(US) World Premiere. A student clean energy device has other unexpected uses, but there are those with dark purposes looking to cash not realizing what's at stake. dir. by Conor Long
TICKETS

9 pm • FEB 12
LOS ULTIMOS DIAS
(Spain) Premiere. A plague inducing intense agoraphobia has swept the globe bringing everything to a stand still Two men set out on a quest. One seeks to find his love. His companion is a ruthless HR axe man whose motives are vague. Oh, the catch, they can’t go outside..
“A well-made and very entertaining film. ~ Hispanic Film Blog
TICKETS

5 pm • Feb 13
SHORTS PROGRAM #4
Retire for the Evening
Reset
Five Points
Sad Monster
Time Travelers
Recursion
Black Sugar
TICKETS

7pm • Feb 13
WHO’S CHANGING ~ An Adventure in Time with Fans
(UK) World Premiere. Think you know Dr Who? This doc journeys into the mind of fans & creators.
Added short: Painting the Way to the Moon
TICKETS

9 pm • Feb 13
COHERENCE
(US) E Coast Premiere. “A tour de force of low-budget, self-contained, smart, stylish sci-fi/suspense “ Fangoria
As a comet flashes across the sky, a dinner party slips into a dimensional never land. dir. by James Ward Byrkit
Q&A with star Nicholas Brendon following film
TICKETS

5 pm • Feb 14
SHORTS FOR LOVERS
Match Perfect
Permanence
Another Day
My Date w/Adam
Sorry About Tomorrow
Slumptown
A Better Life
EMIT
TICKETS

7 pm • Feb 14
THE PERFECT 46 (106)
(US) Geneticist creates a website that pairs individuals with their ideal genetic partner for procreative purposes. dir. by Brett Bonowicz
TICKETS

9 pm • Feb 14
SENN
(US) Premiere! In the future, a lowly worker encounters an enigmatic alien intelligence searching for the ideal. A new hope emerges. Senn may fulfill a mysterious purpose, a purpose that may change the very nature of civilization.
dir. by Josh Feldman
TICKETS

3 pm • Feb 15
ARMISTICE
(UK) Prisoner fights grotesque inhuman opponents each and every day starring Joseph Morgan (The Vampire Diaries). dir. by Luke Massey
TICKETS

5 pm • Feb 15
OXV: THE MANUAL
(UK) World Premiere Marie is super-high frequency, Zak is ultra-low. They‘re not supposed to cross paths. Oops. dir. by Darren Paul Fisher
TICKETS

7 pm • Feb 15
SEARCH FOR SIMON
(UK) US Premiere. A charming quirky British comedy about a young man searching for his brother who was abducted by aliens. dir. by Martin Gooch
Meet director Gooch and London Sci-Fi Film Festival director Louis Savy after the screening.

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Reply #1 - Feb 7^th, 2014 at 11:09pm

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Odd comment of FB about tonight's opening night crowd: "The audience sounded like a bunch of fatuous synchophants."

Anybody else attend and make sense of that remark?

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Reply #2 - Feb 8^th, 2014 at 10:04am

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Screenings heavy with friends and family like last night's can often sound like that - it may be a pretty bad movie, but everyone wants to compliment and be supportive, and the questions can be half in-joke that those of us who aren't insiders find... Well, fatuous is harsh, but not entirely off the mark.

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Reply #3 - Feb 8^th, 2014 at 2:28pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Feb 7^th, 2014 at 11:09pm:

Odd comment of FB about tonight's opening night crowd: "The audience sounded like a bunch of fatuous synchophants."

Anybody else attend and make sense of that remark?

I was there, and one did get the sense that more than half the audience were in some way involved with the production of the film. The film is very involving and I liked it, but it didn't feel like a fully formed story.

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Reply #4 - Feb 8^th, 2014 at 10:04pm

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any reports!?

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Reply #5 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 12:41am

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A decent enough day - the short package wasn't bad, Dust of War was kind of a disappointment considering some of the on-screen talent (worth noting: Tony Todd's agent is doing his job well to get his client first billing on this), LFO could have spun its wheels a little less but is one of the better examples we've seen of someone basically making a film in his own house, and Animosity wasn't a bad horror movie.

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Reply #6 - Feb 9^th, 2014 at 12:29pm

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A note from the 'fest - there were technical difficulties with the first shorts program (a bluray -data- as opposed to movie-format disk that couldn't be played on available equipment). Two of the shorts were shown from other sources - iBrain and Flesh Computer. The rest weren't and there may be an additional shorts program announced at some point to do those.

Garen also mentioned that there will be a "sidebar" during the 'thon in one or both of the downstairs cinemas, showing shorts and other things not in the main program

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Reply #7 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 3:37pm

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Per Facebook/Twitter, both the 5pm shorts program and the 7pm screening of Who's Changing have been postponed due to a bit of snow; no word yet on Coherence at 9pm.

Of course, it's not on the website because I don't know why. Or maybe I'm just a dinosaur for thinking that would be the first logical place to look rather than searching for a group's Facebook page.

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Reply #8 - Feb 13^th, 2014 at 3:42pm