“Queers can't destroy science fiction. No one can destroy the future. But we can, through malice or complacency or inattention, limit the future."
-Sigrid Ellis
aGLIFF edition
PRISM 34 is here through Labor Day!
One of our favorite local festivals is happening now: PRISM, aGLIFF's 34th annual marquee LGBTQIA+ film festival is being held virtually with select in-person events until September 6.
As a proud community sponsor, Other Worlds is pleased to offer $2 off any ticket with the code ParsecPride.
Two films we recommend? Finnish dark comedy NIMBY and Australian drama THE GREENHOUSE. Learn more about both films below!
2021 DEADLINES & DETAILS
FILM & SCRIPT SUBMISSIONS Aug 31: Late Deadline Sept 20: (FILM ONLY) Extended Deadline
EVENT DATES Dec 2-5: Other Worlds 2021
(in-person) Dec 6-12: Other Worlds 2021
(virtual add-on)
NIMBY
Mervi and her girlfriend Kata leave the safety of liberal hipster Helsinki for rural Finland to come out to Mervi’s parents. After a year living together, Kata is surprised to find out Mervi once was straight and dated a neo-Nazi. The ex-boyfriend can’t accept that Mervi is with a person both the wrong color and gender. The real threat appears when Kata's parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead boss finds out that a black Muslim celebrity politician has come to town. Oh, and also Mervi’s parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. As the bigoted town lays siege to their house, the two families band together to fight for their lives. TICKETS HERE
Mon, Aug 30th, 11:00 AM @ VIRTUAL [Available now - Sept 6, 11:59 PM, 2021] Sun, Sep 5th, 11:30 AM @ Galaxy Theatre Screen 6
THE GREENHOUSE
Still grieving the death of her mother Lillian, Beth discovers a portal to the past in the forest surrounding her family property. On the cusp of her widowed mother Ruth’s sixtieth birthday and the homecoming of her dysfunctional siblings, Beth is swept away by visions of their adolescence and re-lives the moments that defined her. Despite Ruth’s warnings, and as real-world tenasions grow between the siblings, Beth becomes mesmerized by the past; but the past is not the paradise she believed it to be. TICKETS HERE
Reminder: today is our Late Deadline for submissions for Other Worlds 2021 (and final chance to send us your screenplay!) See our FilmFreeway page HERE
DID YOU KNOW?
Other Worlds Film Festival became
an official non-profit organization in 2020!
