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THE
FULL SCHEDULE OF EVENTS:
The festival launches with a free-admission night on Thursday, January
15, 2015 at The Cervantes Institute with a special program of Spanish and South
American science fiction shorts beginning at 7pm. The exciting schedule
includes Martín Rosete's Voice Over (2011, Spain), Michel
Goossens' Exit (2013, Spain/Netherlands), MacGregor and Bruno
Zacarías' Similo (2014, Spain), Daniel Romero's No Mires Ahí (2014,
Spain), Fernandez Sanchez's Sujeto Darwin (2014, Spain),
Antonio Souto Fraguas' Renacimiento (2013, Spain), Thierry
Lorenzi's On/Off (2013, France), Didier Philippe's Seule (2014,
France), Lee Citron's Martian American (2014,
USA/Mexico) and Federico Telerman's Albino (2014,
Argentina).
The mayhem comes full force on Friday, January 16,
2015 at Tribeca Cinemas with the frighteningly entertaining and award-winning Nightmare
Code (2014) at 7pm in Theater One. The star- studded film
features Andrew J. West, widely known to audiences as Gareth on AMC's mega-hit The
Walking Dead, Mei Melançon (X Men: The Last Stand,
The L Word) and Googy Gress (Apollo 13,
Parenthood) and follows the gripping account of a start-up
programmer who battles a mysterious software code that takes on a life of its
own following the murderous rampage of his predecessor. The feature film is
directed and produced by Mark Netter, written by Netter and M.J. Rotondi and
executive produced by Craig Allen and Avi Bachar. A Q&A session with Netter
is scheduled to follow. Having premiered to critical success across the board,
Jacob Akira Okada's documentary short Painting the Way to the Moon (2013)
will have its exclusive NYC premiere at Theater One at 9pm. Produced by Adam
Morrow and Carylanna Taylor, the film follows Princeton mathematician and
artist Ed Belbruno, who discovered a new form of space travel. His
"eureka" moment while working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
(JPL) in the 1980s came to him while painting. The groundbreaking conjecture
that satellites could use the mathematics of the chaos theory rather than
rocket fuel to orbit around the moon and send experiments into space was
initially rejected by NASA and he was soon fired. However, his work eventually
found a home at the agency. The film examines how "art and science share a
common process and explores how creative thinking is not only for
artists," according to the official film synopsis. A Q&A session with
Belbruno is scheduled to follow.
A
block of international science fiction short films begins at 7:30pm in Theater
Two. A highlight of the evening is Room 731 (2014, USA) which stars
Tim Kang, best known as Kimball Cho on CBS' smash-hit The Mentalist. The film directed by
Young Min Kim and written by Kim and Christie Cushing is a supernatural mystery
along the bloodlines of The Grudge and Saw and follows an amnesiac girl who awakens
in a jail-like room and is haunted by dangerous spirits. Also starring Yoojung
Kim and Nikki SooHoo, the film sheds light on the traumas of the WWII-era
Japanese concentration camp known as "Unit 731." Industry
professionals including Eddie Yang (co-founder, Alliance Studio), SFX makeup
artist Diana Choi (The Dark Knight), Vanessa Mi Kyung Lee (The Hunger Games), editor Jimmy Gadd (The
Mentalist)
and executive producers Anna Liza Recto and Michael Kaleda (Bold MP) have
rallied behind the project. The evening continues with Thomas Charles' Désaffection
(2013,
France), Mat Owen's Turn On (2013, UK), Winnie Cheung's Dear Lucas (2014, USA), Laura
Maxfield's A Girl, A Cat, A Bomb (2014, USA), [followed by Room 731 in sequence], Faroukh
Virani's Vimana (2014,
USA/India), Aldo Romero's Silent Threat (2014, USA), Erin Li's Kepler X-47 (2014, USA) and Vanessa
Gould's The Atom Bomb (2013, USA). And just when you thought the screams had died
down, three filmmakers barricade themselves in a haunted house where no one has
survived past 21 Days (2014) at 9:30pm in Theater Two. The spine-chilling and
multiple award-winning feature film written and directed by Kathleen Behun
stars Whitney Rose Pynn (co-star of NBC's upcoming David Duchovny series Aquarius), Max Hambleton and
Mickey River. A Q&A session with Behun is scheduled to follow.
The festival continues on Saturday, January 17, 2015 at The Producer's
Club with a special panel made up of the directors and producers whose films
are official selections. From 12-1:30pm, Perils and Profits: Independent
Filmmaking In The 21st Century will delve deeply into
the challenges faced by independent filmmakers as they navigate the exciting
and turbulent waters of today's industry. The distinguished guests include
producer and writer Mark Netter in his directorial debut with Nightmare Code
(2014) starring Andrew J. West (AMC's The Walking
Dead) who will discuss how to assemble a winning
production team and how to bring out the best in them. His film was shot over
seven weekends in summer 2014 with a production budget of just $80,000. Its
two-years in post-production were spent building the intricately choreographed
"surveillance quad" structure in more than half the film, raising
funds through Indiegogo and creating over 600 individual visual effects. Kathleen
Behun, in her feature film debut as director and co-producer of 21 Days (2014)
starring Whitney Rose Pynn (NBC's Aquarius) will relay the
importance of narrative and how to shoot a great film on a shoe-string budget.
Members of Paranormal Societies and Paranormal Pursuit will be in attendance.
Behun is a multiple award-winning director, producer and writer of short films
and has had several feature spec scripts optioned by major Hollywood companies
including Winkler Films. Stephanie Bell, the producer of Matt Duggan's Inverse
(2014) will cover creative methods of self-distribution.
Bell is veteran of the industry with a vast knowledge and numerous Hollywood
films to her credit.
The
fun really begins with three blocks of short films. First up is "Wonders,
Curiosities and Oddities" at 1:30pm with Zac Grant and Jason Markowitz's The
Dahl House (2014),
Peter LaSala and Christopher Ventura's Except for Us (2014), Dustin Lee's The
Astronomer (2015),
Michel Goossens' Ego (2014), Edmond Deraedt and Kristin Arnesen's Reliquary (2014) and Keaton
Smith's The Story of Christopher Jenkins (2014). Next up are Philip K.
Dick-inspired films of "Paranoia, Conspiracy and Dystopia" at 3pm
including John Butler's The Terminal Node (2014), Stephen Parkhurst's Frontier (2014), Scott Danzig's Sky
Paradise (2013),
Alessandro Bricoli's Ignorenatus Alius (2014), Gavin Williams' Sleepworking (2013), Anthony Willis' Escapement
(2014),
Etienne Gravrand's The Fischer Case (2014), Joachim Huveneers' I Wish My Life (2014), Ayoub Qanir's Artificio
Conceal (2014)
and William Hart and Ciaran Birks' Serpent Dreams (2014). After the block,
audience members will have the opportunity to vote for the "Best PKD
Short." "The Return of the Flesh" closes out the lineup at 5pm
with Andy Green's Vomica (2014), Lauren Morrison's Viscera (2014) and Kristen
Swinkels' Nigredo (2013).
Get ready for a huge world premiere in the face of kidnapping, torture,
time travel, mind control, extraterrestrial contact and even murder which was
said to have been committed in the quaint hamlet of Montauk, Long Island.
Discover the shocking details in Christopher P. Garetano's Montauk
Chronicles (2014) from 5-7pm. Equipped with all new footage to
create an entirely new film from its previous release, the documentary film
follows the story of three men who claim they were brainwashed by a clandestine
organization and forced against their will to take part in secret experiments
beneath the surface of the Camp Hero Air Force base in Montauk. Survivors
Alfred Bielek, Stewart Swerdlow and Preston Nichols tell their tales of the
infamous location where criminal experiments of nearly 100,000 people took
place over the course of 10 ghastly years. A very special and full Q&A will
take place afterwards with Garetano, Nichols, Huffington Post reporter
Lee Speigel, researcher Paul P. Nathan Fagan, film survivor James Bruce,
psychic Qumran Taj and Erik Swanson, Michael D. Roszhart, Chris Margaritis,
Paul Ehlers and Rob Garetano. Swerdlow will be answering questions via Skype
from his Expansions seminar in Michigan.
Following
in its own trail of macabre later that evening is Chris Alexander's feature Queen
of Blood (2014)
from 6-7:30pm. With numerous rave reviews, the film is a follow-up to the 2012
PKD Festival "Best Horror Supernatural Feature" Blood For Irina (2012). Hold onto your
seats as vampire Irina, exceptionally portrayed by Shauna Henry, is reborn as a
"vampiric plague" and must escape the danger of a vampire slayer as
she lays waste on those around her to claim her unborn child. The film also
stars Nivek Ogre, Carrie Gemmell and David Goodfellow in what is a modern
masterpiece set to a haunting score and vivid scenery. Alexander, the
editor-in-chief of internationally superb film magazine FANGORIA will be on hand to
introduce his film alongside Carrie Gemmell. The film previously screened to
immense success at the International Horror Sci-Fi Film Festival in Phoenix,
The Italian Horror Fest in Nettuno, Rome, Italy, The Montreal Horrorfest, The
Oaxaca FilmFest in Mexico, La Samain du Cinema Fantastique in the South of
France, the South African Horror Fest in Cape Town and Blood In The Snow
Canadian Film Festival in Toronto.
But the night is far from over with the screening of the award-winning
feature film The Perfect 46 (2014) starring Whit
Hertford, Don McManus and James M. Connor at 7:30pm. Written and directed by
Brett Ryan Bonowicz, the film follows the story of a geneticist who develops a
website to pair individuals of a pure genetic match in order to create the
"perfect child." Ending the night is the feature There (2014)
at 9:30pm, a high-octane thriller about a socially displaced war veteran who
" justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien
invasion." Written and directed by prolific underground filmmaker James
Fotopoulos, the film stars Xander O'Connor, Brenda Bakke and Sarah Brooks. The
evening closes with Suicide or Lulu and Me In A World Made For Two (2014)
in a midnight screening from 11:30pm-1:30am. Written, directed and starring
Christian Carroll, the film follows an inventor who develops a camera to
preserve a loving moment between himself and his lover in order to achieve
never-ending happiness. The film stars Adeline Thery, Brian Shoop, Mathieu
Lagarrigue and Quentin Brussieux and has screened at the Sci-Fi-London Film
Festival, the Arizona Underground Film Festival and recently premiered on VOD
in the UK.
The
festival ends on Sunday, January 18, 2015 but not before the twists and turns
of Inverse (2014)
at 4pm in Tribeca Cinemas' Theater One. Written and directed by Matt Duggan,
the feature film stars Josh Wingate (World War Z), Luisa Beck, W.C.
Boelter and John Burish in this story of eternal ruination and forbidden
desire. Experience captivating shocks as a man awakens from what he perceived
as death but is in fact a parallel universe all the while he falls in love with
his doppelgänger's wife and mankind is threatened with total destruction. A
Q&A session with Duggan is scheduled to follow. When all is dead and done,
the highly anticipated awards ceremony brings the festival to a satisfying
close.
The
Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival has thrilled its attendees with
entertaining and visually captivating themes which have made the event a
favorable and continued success. For full schedule and ticketing information
please visit www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com. The festival will take place
on January 15, 2015 at The Cervantes Institute (day is free admission) at 211
East 49th Street, New York, NY 10017 (visit nyork.cervantes.es/en/default.shtm or
call 212-308-7720), January 16 and 18, 2015 at Tribeca Cinemas at 54 Varick
Street, New York, NY 10013 [at Laight Street, one block below Canal Street]
(visit www.tribecacinemas.com or call 212-941-2001) and January 17, 2015 at The
Producer's Club at 358 W 44th Street, New York, NY 10036 (visit www.producersclub.com
or call 212-315-4743). And always be sure to visit the festival's Twitter page
at twitter.com/PhilipKDickFest (tweet the hashtag #PKDFestNYC) and the Facebook
page at www.facebook.com/ThePhilipKDickFilmFestival.
About
The Philip K. Dick Science Fiction Film Festival:
The
Philip K. Dick International Film Festival of Science, Science Fiction,
Fantastic Film and the Supernatural is New York City's first festival of its
kind and is organized by individuals and filmmakers who understand the
difficulties and challenges of telling a unique story in a corporate
environment. With extremely successful 2012-2013 festivals, a 2013
international event in Lille, France and endless screening events the festival
is only beginning its vision of honoring the legacy of the great Philip K.
Dick. From guest speakers and writers who best represent the goals of the
festival, original voices and enhanced visions in works submitted, this is a
festival created by filmmakers for filmmakers.
About
Philip K. Dick:
"Reality
is whatever refuses to go away when I stop believing in it." - Philip K. Dick
Philip
K. Dick (1928-1982) was one of the 20th century's most profound novelists and
writers within the science fiction community. His exploration, analysis and
beliefs led to the publishings of 44 novels and 121 short stories. Dick's
enormous library of works led to several film developments including Blade
Runner (1982),
Total Recall (1990),
Minority Report (2002),
Paycheck (2003)
A Scanner Darkly (2006),
Radio Free Albemuth (2010), The Adjustment Bureau (2011) andTotal
Recall (2012).
Dick's enormously effective views comprised of fictional universes, virtual
realities and human mutation foresaw an exaggerated version of the current
state of government and contemporary life. Though he is gone in the physical
form his philosophies live on in the techniques applied to modern stories and
films and generate large displays of appreciation and understanding.
Festival
Websites/Social Media
Official
Website: www.thephilipkdickfilmfestival.com
Twitter:
www.twitter.com/PhilipKDickFest
Twitter
Hashtag: #PKDFestNYC
International
Website: www.philipkdickfilmfestival-europe.com
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