“The thing about the end of the world was this: either everything mattered, or nothing did.”
- Farah Naz Rishi
Newsletter 21.8 Returning in-person December 2-5, 2021
August 25: In-Person Orbiter Screening HELL IS EMPTY
Other Worlds is excited to announce the first in-person feature of the 2021 Orbiter Year-Round Series: HELL IS EMPTY. This special screening will take place on Wednesday, August 25 (7:30pm) at Galaxy Highland 10 Theatre. Writer/Director Jo Shaffer will be in attendance for a Q&A after the film!
A self-styled messiah initiates a teenage runaway into his cult of sister-wives. Her rebellious nature upends the community, triggering a bloody uprising against the patriarch.
"Hell is Empty kicks off our Orbiter series with shades of the Under Worlds." says Dan Repp, Senior Programmer and Event Director. "Jo Shaffer brings a fresh voice to the horrors of a patriarchal community. Fiction brushes against our reality with a male character that uses religion to manipulate women."
2021 DEADLINES & DETAILS
FILM & SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS Jul 31: Midsummer Deadline Aug 31: Late Deadline Sept 20: (FILM ONLY) Extended Deadline
EVENT DATES Aug 25: Orbiter:HELL IS EMPTY Dec 2-5: Other Worlds 2021
(in-person) Dec 6-12: Other Worlds 2021
(virtual add-on)
This Orbiter Screening will be co-presented by aGLIFF (The All Genders, Lifestyles, and Identities Film Festival) which takes place at the Galaxy as well, August 26th-September 6th. See aGLIFF.org for more info.
Be sure to grab tickets HERE. We can't wait to see you in person!
COME TRUE: An Other Worlds Review
by Jordan Brown
Canada has been churning out some truly fascinating SciFi and Horror content over the past decade. See Brandon Cronenberg’s ANTIVIRAL and POSSESSOR (nepotism perhaps, but I give it a pass since he’s actually talented), or Jeff Barnaby’s BLOOD QUANTUM (socially conscious and boasts perhaps the last clever twist on the zombie trope which, like its subject, refuses to die off). Here at Other Worlds, we proudly count Tricia Lee (BLOOD HUNTERS) and the Black Fawn Distribution team (I’LL TAKE YOUR DEAD, THE HERETICS) among our alumni from the Great White North. Today I’m here to tell you that the 2020 film COME TRUE, though not without its faults, deserves its place among this library of recent genre flicks that are worth your attention. READ MORE...
Fears, Anxieties, and the Depression
by Brett Ryan Bonowicz
Science fiction can rather nakedly show us who we are as a society. We send a message to the future with our stories and our films, coded through genre, to say what our fears for the future were in the moment we lived in.
We can see it in the films of the 1950s “Atomic Age” where THEM and GODZILLA were the products of nuclear testing. Numerous B-films of the 1960s gave us nuclear articulated villains, atomic inspired nightmares, and dystopian hellscapes. READ MORE...
Heads up! July 31st is our Midsummer Deadline for submissions.
Be sure to get your project in soon! Accepting Films and Scripts.
See our FilmFreeway page HERE!
Did you know?
Other Worlds Film Festival became
an official non-profit organization in 2020!
