REM Goes To Scifi London

25·04·2014

The science fiction short film REM, directed by Joseba Alfaro, has been nominated for competing at this year's Scifi London (United Kingdom).

Since yesterday, Thursday 24th April, REM, the short film directed by Joseba Alfaro, is competing at the Scifi London 14 - The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film (London, England, United Kingdom).

REM by Joseba Alfaro is contending in the "Blink On the Eye" category, focused on short films. REM is going to be shown as part of the "Shorts Programme 6". This short films programme is going to be exhibited twice. The first screening is scheduled just today, Friday 25th April, at 15:15 hours. The short film is going to be shown again on Sunday 4th May at 17:00 hours. Both shows are going to take place at the Stratford Picturehouse of London.

Adding REM by Joseba Alfaro, the number of shorts selected at the Scifi London 14 reaches 56 works.

The 56 selected shorts are: 7300 Days Later by Luca Bertoluzzi (United Kingdom), The Last Wildflower by Jonathan Hal Reynolds (USA), Hirsch by Chad Barton & Patrick Churvis (USA), Monotony by Joanne Postlewaite (United Kingdom), The Device by Conrad Lihilihi (USA), Theme Song Rebel by Luke Patton (USA), Recoil by Evan Matthews (USA), Bless You by Philip Watts (Australia), Mouse-X by Justin Tagg (United Kingdom), Over the Moon by James Cunningham (New Zealand), Eve by Eric Gandois (France), Bunker by Ned Ehrbar (USA), Project Kronos by Hasraf Dulull (United Kingdom), I.R.I.S by Hasraf Dulull (United Kingdom), Abe by Rob McLellan (United Kingdom), Europa by Bruce Hutchinson (USA), New by John Harden (USA), A Perfect Soldier by Chamoun Issa (United Kingdom), Match Perfect by Matthew T. Burns (USA), Eden 2045 by James Lawler (USA), Flesh Computer by Ethan Shaftel (USA), Our Futures Ltd by Lukas Schrank & George Thomson (United Kingdom / Greece), Angels and Ghosts by Sara Kenney (United Kingdom), The Tea Chronicles by Charlie McDonnell & Khyan Mansley (United Kingdom), Vimana by Faroukh Virani (USA), Blackbird by Rob Petit (United Kingdom), The Very Big Problem by David Franklin (United Kingdom), The Landing by Josh Tanner (Australia), Anamesis by Benjamin Goodger (United Kingdom), My Date with Adam by Dennis Schebetta (USA), Nova by John Albanis (Canada), Cooking with Venus by Glen Vivaris & Shaun Vivaris (USA), A Stitch in Time (for $9.99) by Mu Sun (USA), Borrowed Time by Paul Lettieri (USA), The Developer by Robert Odegnal (Hungary), Mona by Alexis Barbosa (France), Cargols! by Geoffrey Cowper (Spain), Otto Floss: Freelance Watcher by Gevi Dimitrakopoulou & Arturo Bandinelli (United Kingdom), Ruby's Skin by Claire Tailyour (United Kingdom), M.O. by Jakub Kouril (Czech Republic), Echo by Jon Silverberg (Canada), The Trial by Mark Player & Phil Arnold (United Kingdom), Zero by William Wall (USA), Renaissance by Joan Manuel Urquiaga Valdes (Sweden), Shift by James Croke (Australia), H270 by José Luis Aristoy & José Miguel Martínez (Spain), REM by Joseba Alfaro (Spain), Lifeboats by Kit McDee (Australia), Kill Shelter by Paul Nicoletos (USA), Bait by Jared Young & Raymond Carr (USA), Rabbit and Dear by Péter Vácz (Hungary), Cough by Jason Kempnich (Australia), Albino by Federico Telerman (Argentina), A Better Life by Conor Holt (USA), Load by Pable deNaravvo (USA), and Juegos de la mente by Hugo Félix Mercado (Mexico).

The country which has won more nominations is the United States, which has sent 21 short films to Scifi London 14. The host country of this film competition, United Kingdom, is the second country by number of selected short films; just 15 finalists are British along with one co-production with Greece. Australia, with 5 shorts, is the next country by number of selections. They are followed by Spain (3 nominations, one of them is REM by Joseba Alfaro), Canada (2), France (2), Hungary (2), Argentina (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (1), Czech Republic (1), Sweden (1), and Greece (1, en co-production).

The Scifi London 14 will be closed coming 4th May.

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