Congratulations to all the films in the 2010 festival!

SFFSFF 2010 WINNERS

Grand Prize: The Control Master

Audience Favorite: Charlie Thistle

Second Place: Alma

Third Place: Charlie Thistle

Douglas Trumbull Award for Best Special Effects: Hangar No. 5

SFFSFF 2010 Films >>

EMP|SFM in partnership with SIFF presented the 5th annual Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival on Saturday, January 30, 2010 at the Seattle Cinerama Theater. The festival brings together industry professionals in filmmaking and the genres of science fiction and fantasy to encourage and support new, creative additions to science fiction and fantasy cinema arts.

ALMA
Country: Spain, USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 5.5 minutes
Director: Rodrigo Blaas



Alma, a little girl, skips through the snow covered streets of a small town. Her attention is caught by a strange doll in an antique toy shop window. Fascinated, Alma decides to enter...

BEAST OF BURDEN
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 13 minutes
Director: Sam Carter



Wally is having a tough time. He's broke, he's depressed, and he just found out that he's been fired from his job. Oh, and he's a giant lizard monster. It's up to Wally's friend, a rock-a-billy vampire, and the rest of his motley crew of ghouls to rally around their friend and try to bring him out of his slump.

CHARLIE THISTLE
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Running Time: 15 minutes
Director: Bragi Schut Jr.



Charlie Thistle dreams of a better world, a world in color, a world in which trees grow indoors and sidewalks are made of grass. Alas, Charlie works at the Department of Normality, where change is frowned upon. But there comes a time when every man must stand up for what he believes... and that day is coming for Charlie Thistle!

DIE SCHNEIDER KRANKHEIT
Country: Spain
Year: 2008
Running Time: 10 minutes
Director: Javier Chillon



The fifties, a Russian space shuttle crashes in Germany. The passenger: an astronaut chimp who spreads a deadly virus...

EXTRA�ORDINARY
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 13.5 minutes
Director: Ian Christian Blanche



What if your best friend had superpowers? Dylan and Alex have been inseparable for as long as they can remember. When an accident reveals Alex's incredible secret, their friendship is put to the test.

S.S. HUMANITY
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 17 minutes
Director: Matthew Ladensack



In the year 2210 humankind is faced with one option for survival: moving to outer space. The most precious of Earth's natural resources have been depleted; the planet has been ripped apart by war and natural disasters. Survival of the fittest has transformed into survival of the luckiest when a family gets last minute tickets to board the Space Station: Humanity.

SHUTTLE T-42
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 2.5 minutes
Director: Joon Hyung Kim



Shuttle T-42 crash lands on an unknown planet leaving young Jay and his mother stranded.

THE CONTROL MASTER
Country: UK
Year: 2008
Running Time: 6.5 minutes
Director: Run Wrake



Halftone City, USA. A peaceful metropolis of family values and space-age dreams. Mild-mannered blonde Dorothy Gayne secretly protects its citizens from harm. But dangerous new technologies abound. What happens when a powerful device falls into the hands of scientist-turned-villain Doctor Moire? Who will rescue Halftone City from this oversized creep?

THE KIRKIE
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Running Time: 13.5 minutes
Director: James Krieg



Jeff, a self-hating Star Trek nerd, is bumming out his sci-fi geek buddies with his visions of a life beyond fandom. But when their car breaks down on the way to San Diego's famous Comic Con, he is forced to find a payphone in a local bar. There he meets the girl of his dreams... and her knuckle-dragging date! But thanks to countless hours of epic Trek battles, Jeff knows how to handle himself in a fight. Or does he?

TO THE MOON
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Running Time: 9 minutes
Director: Jacob Ospa



A 19th century Englishman goes on a balloon voyage to the moon, and gets more than he bargained for...

AFTERGLOW
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 11 minutes
Director: Andres Anglade



In the aftermath of a failed alien invasion, two men from the newly formed militia are challenged with determining if the threat died with the invasion or if it lies manifest in a once familiar territory.

ARTHUR'S LORE
Country: UK
Year: 2008
Running Time: 13.5 minutes
Director: Vincent Lund & Matthew Cooke



Hurling the legend of King Arthur into the present day, 'Arthur's Lore' is a fantasy action adventure combining old myth with contemporary humour and our love for all things spooky!

BURDEN
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 10 minutes
Director: Michael David Lynch



Ordered to evacuate Earth on the eve of an Alien invasion, a lone "Hero" named Calik must decide between his sworn duty to flee, or defy his instructions, and battle the imminent threat and attempt to save our world.

CC 2010
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 11 minutes
Director: Travis Senger
Local Film!


Long after her parents have ceased, the remnants of the 1962 Seattle World's Fair still exist for CC Raven. Her life-long mission has been to scatter her parent's ashes inside the Pacific Science Center. After a mysterious crash on her motorcycle, she encounters "Sputnik", an angelic milkman who quickly becomes her sidekick. Together, the two navigate the Pacific Science Center and CC begins a surreal reunion with her long-lost parents somewhere within the cosmic ether.

ELDER SIGN
Country: Canada
Year: 2009
Running Time: 2 minutes
Director: Joseph Nanni



A hilarious commercial spoof from the people that brought you Casting Call of Cthulhu. If you suffer from an overwhelming sense of dread brought on by the realization of your own insignificance in the universe, then you need Elder Sign - H.P. Lovecraft's aeons old remedy for cosmic dread.

HANDS OFF!
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 7 minutes
Director: Patrick Bosworth



When John is visited by an Angel, he learns a disturbing truth about how he spends his time on the internet.

HANGAR NO. 5
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Running Time: 11 minutes
Director: Nathan Matsuda



Two treasure hunting teens activate a cold war weapons system and must fight for survival.

NANOSPORIN AI
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 5 minutes
Director: Stephen Hal Fishman



After arriving at his remote research station, a scientist performs experiments with the Nanosporin AI serum, first on grapes, then on himself, causing the host some discomfort as well as some rather intense hallucinations. The experiment culminates in the host becoming a 'living work of art' and then expiring.

SINGULARITY
Country: USA
Year: 2009
Running Time: 6 minutes
Director: Stephen Griffin



In the year 2029, an ailing scientist transfers his most important memory into an android, in an attempt to merge their consciousnesses.

THIRD DAYS CHILD
Country: USA
Year: 2008
Running Time: 9.5 minutes
Director: SJ Chiro
Local Film!


Danger lurks in the Blank Days System, incorporated to relieve stress on natural resources in an oppressive future. Will the Third Day Child be reached by the rebels?