FANTASY/SCI-FI Shorts Festival - July 8/9 event
New Releases
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Independent, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Short Films
See the Full Lineup of Films:
CLAIRE, 25min., USA
Directed by Paul Ambe Ngang
Committed to getting his crush to love him, Mark uses an AI to snoop into her private life; but when the AI unexpectedly develops love for him and spite for her, he must choose the AI or lose everything.
https://www.instagram.com/claireshortfilm/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-claire
FAREWELL, 11min., USA
Directed by Jiayu Liu
One day, Quintin, a funeral agent is visited by Claire in order to deal with her own funeral. During the meeting, a man, Jeffrey, breaks in. Jeffrey doesn’t allow Claire to die. Now Quintin realizes that Claire is a robot, he’s about to call the police because it seems like now Claire has her own mentality. But Jeffrey stops him. Actually, Claire should have been destroyed 20 years ago, but Jeffrey doesn’t want Claire to leave his life so he keeps changing components and updating for her. Claire says she wants to die for being a complete human, but the truth is that she wants to release Jeffrey to let him have a normal life. Meanwhile, Jeffrey finally understands that love is respect and accepts Claire’s request. In the end, Quintin goes back home. He sees his robot and doesn’t think of her as a machine.
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Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-farewell
SYNTHETIC HOPE, 16min., USA
Directed by Chris Hinton
Faced with certain death a young girl unleashes a mysterious AI to help her escape.
https://www.instagram.com/synthetic_hope
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https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-synthetic-hope
THE STAR, 3min., UK
Directed by Alex Brady
The light of a distant star brings revelations to the Earth from the depths of space
https://www.instagram.com/alexjaybrady/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-the-star
OAZA Vol.1, 2min., China
Directed by Rui Huang
https://instagram.com/ruihuang_art
https://twitter.com/ruihuang_art
https://www.instagram.com/withfoundation/
Watch the Audience Feedback Video:
https://www.wildsound.ca/videos/audience-feedback-oaza
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