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OTHER WORLDS FILM FESTIVAL RELEASES CLOSING FILM AND
FULL SCHEDULE FOR THE 2020 FESTIVAL
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We're happy to announce announces the full 2020 festival schedule with special events, conversations, podcasts and more. Recently named as one of “The World’s Best 50 Genre Fests” by MovieMaker Magazine, the 7th annual festival will feature more than forty films, including features, documentaries, and shorts showcasing the diverse genre of SciFi over six days virtually Dec. 1–6, 2020. Badges for the 2020 festival are available at two levels and are on sale now at otherworldsfilmfest.com/badges. Individual tickets will go on sale Nov. 24.
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DEADLINES & DETAILS
2020
December 1-6:
Other Worlds 2020!!
Virtual via Eventive
How to Buy A Badge →
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This year’s Defender of the Universe Award honors David Twohy celebrating the 20th
Anniversary of the SciFi classic PITCH BLACK. Twohy broke into Hollywood writing CRITTERS 2 and WARLOCK before successes like THE FUGITIVE, TERMINAL VELOCITY, and G.I. JANE.
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Keynote speakers include Rick Griffith, Afrofuturist Graphic Designer and Founder of The
Black Astronaut Research Project (BLARP) and Noël Wells, University of Texas at Austin
(Radio-Television-Film) graduate and Star Trek: Lower Decks voice star (Orion Starfleet Ensign
D’Vana Tendi).
A full schedule for the 2020 Other Worlds Film Festival can be found HERE.
DEFENDER OF THE UNIVERSE SCREENING
PITCH BLACK | USA | 112 min | 20th Anniversary Screening
Dir: David Twohy | Wri: David Twohy, Jim Wheat, Ken Wheat
When a meteor storm strikes down a space transport, the eleven marooned survivors discovertheir barren and hot desert-scape fills with flesh-eating reptiles when engulfed in darkness. Their best chance for survival, a man with surgically enhanced eyes that allow him to see in the dark, Riddick (Vin Diesel), also happens to be an escaped convict. And every twenty-two years, all three suns go down for a month-long eclipse.
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CLOSING NIGHT FILM
TALES OF TOMORROW (CONTOS DO AMANHÃ)
Brazil | 85 min
Director/Screenwriter: Pedro de Lima Marques
In 2165, Michele's kidnapping drops the city-state of Porto 01, the last stronghold of human
civilization, under a state of war. Porto’s discord comes to the attention of a 1999 high school student in a package of downloaded files. When they begin to disappear off his computer and his best friend goes missing, Jefferson finds his and Porto’s fates intertwined.
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EXTRATERRESTRIAL ACTIVITES
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EVENTS:
PreApocalyptic Happy Hour & Keynote
Thursday, December 3 | 6:30 p.m. CST
Come hang out. Reconnect with old friends. Watch some festival trailers all peaking with a Rick Griffith, Afrofuturist Graphic Designer and Founder of Black Astronaut Research Project
(BLARP). *Supernova Pass Access ONLY
AMONG US© Launch Party
Thursday, December 3 | 10:15 p.m. CST
One of your crew has been replaced by a parasitic shapeshifter. Vote the imposter off the ship
before everyone is killed. The online party game everyone can play (and meet each other). Or
just hang out a chat in the Galactic Lounge. *Supernova Pass Access ONLY
Part 2: Unnecessary Sequels
Friday, December 4 | 10:00 p.m. CST
In a world where every movie has a sequel... WE NEED MORE! Fallout Comedy presents the
live gameshow where four funny people pitch their (probably not) great SciFi sequel ideas to
four industry type people (hopefully also funny).
Screenplay Live Reading: TOTAL RECALL, The Dan O’Bannon Version
Saturday, December 5 | 11:00 a.m. CST
In honor of the film’s 30th Anniversary, Diane O’Bannon has scrounged up the original 1983
version, exactly 46 drafts before final, filmed version. A live reading featuring OW Staff, Film
Alumni, and Austin Actors.
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2020: A Brunch Odyssey
Sunday, December 6 | 11:00 a.m. CST
It may be Sunday morning, but we’ve got Saturday Morning Cartoons followed by your chance
to sit at a couple virtual tables and meet this year’s filmmakers. In between, we’ll have our
closing Keynote from Noël Wells, University of Texas at Austin (Radio-Television-Film) graduate
and Star Trek: Lower Decks voice star (Orion Starfleet Ensign D’Vana Tendi).
*Supernova Pass Access ONLY
Soundscape Escape to Other Worlds: A Theremin Live Performance w/ Carolina Eyck
Sunday, December 6 | 2:00 p.m. CST
Invented in 1919 by a Russian physicist, the electronic musical instrument the theremin is
unique in that is played without being touched. In the 1950s, it became forever identified with
Science Fiction by being used in the score of films like The Day the Earth Stood Still and The
Thing from Another World. German-Sorbian musician and composer Carolina Eyck has taken
the instrument to new heights. Join us for a demonstration, history lesson, and private concert unlike any other.
The Big Quiz Thing: SciFi TRIVIA Party
Sunday, December 6 | 10:00 p.m. CST
Finish the Festival with The Big Quiz Thing. Hosted by America’s premier live quizmaster and
the BQT’s founder, Noah Tarnow, The Big Quiz Thing is way more than a bar quiz: it’s a full
interactive quiz spectacular, with video and audio puzzles, the Lightning Round, the
Buzzertastic Finale, and Smart-Ass Points for wrong, but funny answers. Assemble a team or
play alone.
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CONVERSATIONS:
Mick Strawn, Nightmares in Production Design
Wednesday, December 2 | 6:00 p.m. CST
Behind the Screams author and production designer on A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream
Warriors and of A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master and countless others, Mick
Strawn sits down with Reid Lansford to discuss building Freddy’s nightmare realm.
What Survives a Dan O’Bannon Script
w/ Matt Lohr
Thursday, December 3 | 6:00 p.m. CST
This year marks the 35th Anniversary of The Return of the Living Dead and Lifeforce, 30th
Anniversary of Total Recall, and 25th Anniversary of Screamers. Dan O’Bannon famously
adapted works by Philip K. Dick, H.P. Lovecraft, Colin Wilson, and others, and was rewritten
long after his original scripts sold. So, what makes a script Dan’s? Hear from the man with the
‘with’ credit on Dan O’Bannon’s Guide to Screenplay Structure.
Paradise is One’s Own Place w/ Jamie Broadnax
Friday, December 4 | 6:00 p.m. CST
The founder of Black Girl Nerds Jamie Broadnax lays some ‘Black to the Future’ knowledge
on us about how Pop Culture shapes our perceptions of race. What is the long-term impact of
Black Panther on breaking down stereotypes in genre film? Lovecraft Country? A Black
stormtrooper? Why does SciFi have to be so damn white?
The Female Gaze in Horror
Saturday, December 5 | 6:00 p.m. CST
It’s time to subvert the bros’ favorite genre and Bears Rebecca has gathered some of the most
inspiring female filmmakers working today to tell us how we do it. Jill Gevargizian (The Stylist),
Lola Blanc (The Fatale Collective) and Amelia Moses (Bleed with Me).
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The Shape of Things to Come w/ Steve McLean
Sunday, December 6 | 6:00 p.m. CST
2020 is the 125th Anniversary of H.G. Wells’ original novel The Time Machine and the 60th
Anniversary of the George Pal film. HANKUK University Professor of Foreign Studies Steve
McLean, author of The Early Fiction of H. G. Wells: Fantasies of Science, discusses the work’s
legacy and whether we are on the path to being Eloi or Morlocks.
EXTRAS:
“The Lobby” Meet and Greets
After many live Q&As and Conversations, guests will hang out in a virtual Zoom ‘Lobby’ to meet
attendees. *Supernova Pass Access ONLY
Movie Bears Mid-Morning Movie Babble
Daily Live Interviews with Filmmakers from this year’s program. Check Eventive for specific
details. Co-presented with the Movie Bear Podcast.
PODCAST SERIES:
Podcast Series | Premiere at 4:30pm
No art form is safe from SciFi! We had so much fun last year with one, we decided to create a
whole sidebar.
December 1: Attack of the Robots- OW’s own podcast with Bears Rebecca and Chris Lambert world premieres.
December 2: I Don’t Get It- Two middle-aged white guys (including Triviamaster Noah Tarnow) admit their own unhipness.
December 3: Science V. Fiction- Returning from last year, Weinberg and DeGennaro break down a film’s science,
or lack thereof.
December 4: The Mary Sue- Game Contestants recite self-insert fanfiction with a surprise added trope to appease the judges and win the title.
December 6: One of Us- Geeks of the world, unite!
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MARY SHELLEY AWARD NOMINEES
BARZAKH
Writer/Director: Karina Dandashi
BLEED WITH ME
Writer/Director: Amelia Moses
BLIGHT
Writer/Director: Brittany Clemons
KNOW-IT-ALL
Writer/Star: Katherine LaVictoire
M1DAS
Director: Razan Takash
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Named for the "Frankenstein" author, this award honors female voices working in the genre field, and is awarded each year to an artist (writer, director, or actor) whose film best furthers the involvement and representation of women in genre filmmaking.
2020 JURY: Alyx Picard Davis; Executive Director, deadCenter Film, Sabina Graves; Filmmaker, journalist, ComingSoon.net, Erin Li; Filmmaker, past winner, KEPLER X-47
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2020 SCREENPLAY COMPETITION FINALISTS
FEATURES:
ALIEN BOY by Fawaz Al-Matrouk
AN ENEMY OF ANGELS by Jaz Garewal
HOW I LEARNED TO BLOG LIKE A CHAMP AFTER THE END OF THE WORLD by Nick Carmine
SOUL PASSAGE by Patrick Mediate, Kristin Ilagan
THE WAITING ROOM by Niel Bushnell
SHORTS:
FREYA by Wi-Moto Nyoka
NORVAL MEETS THE OUTER GODS by Dale Nicholls
TAPPERS by Ben Fullman
TheoMORPHIS by Sam Moony
TELEPLAYS:
ALL YOU by Oliver Warden
HER MAJESTY’S WIZARDS by Cat Davis, Scott Peterman
POST-APOCALYPTIA by Arthur Diennet
WINDOW by Audrey Rogers
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