Other Worlds Austin SciFi Film Festival has announced its final wave of programming for Austin’s first and only SciFi film festival (Dec 7-10) at Flix Brewhouse. The slate includes the Texas premiere of Closing Night Film CURVATURE  the North American premieres of TUFTLAND and RESTORATION; the US Premiere of DEFECTIVE; and the special retro screening of the 1979 Disney classic THE BLACK HOLE, with Defender of the Universe Awardee director Gary Nelson.

In addition, Other Worlds Austin will present three fantastic shorts programs, one entirely dedicated to the horror sidebar, Under Worlds Austin.  “Every year we welcome submissions from all over the galaxy, and every year we seem to have harder choices,” says Bears Fonté, OWA Founder and Artistic Director. “Our Under Worlds program is especially strong for year two, including the Finnish brooding horror TUFTLAND—sort of a ROSEMARY’S BABY meets MARTHA MARCY MAE MARLENE. I met writer/director Roope 

Olenius a few years ago when I programmed BUNNY THE KILLER THING at SF Indiefest, and he reached out to me with his directorial debut.” “HOSTILE and FLORA are both crossover Horror/SciFi films that will please fans of both genres,” says Jordan Brown, Associate Artistic Director, “and I love FLORA’s 1929 setting, and botanical backdrop. RESTORATION is another North American Premiere and plays like an Australian episode of BLACK MIRROR.”

Also at the festival this year, OWA will venture into midnight madness territory with the World Premiere of PURPLE FURY. “As for PURPLE FURY,” Fonté demurs, “I can neither confirm nor deny that it features the talents of George Miller, Deep Purple, Prince and Stone Temple Pilots. Roger Waters claimed they never actively tried to sync Dark Side of the Moon with Wizard of Oz, and I’m pretty sure no one ever intended this pairing either.”

 

Other Worlds Austin has previously announced a special retro screening of the SciFi cult classic EVENT HORIZON, with screenwriter Philip Eisner and the Texas premiere of Opening Night Film BEYOND SKYLINE. Badges for the festival start at $60 and can be purchased here. Prices go up November 1st. Check out a teaser clip from Closing Night Film CURVATURE below.

 

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Curvature (2017)  "Phone Call" clip