SHORT BLOCK: Wonder Women of the Future
The future is bright with strong women like the characters in these shorts.
Samantha Moonley's Greatest Feeling | USA | Sci-Fi | Garrett Kennell & David Light | 15 min
A life devoid of feeling and emotion forces Samantha Moonley to embark on a journey to prove that she is not an android. (Student Short)
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Cradle | New Zealand | Sci-Fi | Damon Duncan | 15 min
Eade is a 14 year old girl returning to Earth on the spaceship Cradle. An explosion cripples the spacecraft and injures her father. The ship’s computer takes control and refuses to perform the operation needed to save his life. While trying to outwit the computer Eade discovers the shattering truth of her origin.
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Eden | USA | Sci-Fi | Brodin Plett | 18 min
After a cataclysmic event makes Earth uninhabitable, clones are sent to space to preserve humanity. Once Earth is ready for life again, a clone girl lands on the planet's evolved surface alone. She quickly adapts to the forest wilderness she lives in, but yearns for real human connection in her life. (Student Short)
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Collider | Canada | Sci-Fi | Jamie Alain | 10 min
Collider is a psychological sci-fi love story. Dawn, a brilliant scientist, is devastated after the death of her partner Ann. Dawn has been working in a classified wing of the Large Hadron Collider and has discovered the means to shift between the membranes that separate our realities, and into parallel universes. Dawn realizes that there must be a dimension where Ann is still alive and so injects herself with the nanotechnology to slip through dimensions. But in doing so, Dawn finds herself face to face with various versions of herself, each dealing with their grief in different ways. The extra-dimensional race is on for Dawn to find Ann before her reality is torn apart.
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The Lotus Gun | USA | Sci-Fi | Amanda Milius | 25 min
The year is 2077. In a post-civilization world, where there are no laws or weapons, Nora and her best friend and lover, Daph, live an idyllic life in a rugged landscape. When a stranger arrives and Daph disappears, Nora has to go to extreme measures to get back what is her’s. (Student Film)
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