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Imagine Science Film Festival’s Science of Cinema
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AG: We accept both shorts and features. I believe we are going to show about 25 to 30 shorts throughout the festival and five feature films. We currently have about 200 short films and 20 feature films, so we have to narrow that down.
MM: What can attendees of the festival expect? To be entertained? To learn?
AG: That is the mission exactly: To be entertained and to learn at the same time. When we watch films, obviously it has to be entertaining and compelling, but there has to be a little bit of learning, too. There has to be the right amount of science, not too much and not too little.
MM: How do you feel about science fiction?
AG: We also accept science fiction, but it has to be based on some credible idea, not like, I don’t know, The Day After Tomorrow. A good film, for example, would be Gattaca. Gattaca would totally be a plausible future, with genetic discrimination. Those types of films are good.
MM: What do niche festivals like this offer moviemakers?
AG: Science intersects with so many things like culture and politics. It is a niche film festival, but it still hits on such global and international issues, and I think it really brings the science community into film; a whole new community.
I think it’s more interesting to have people with different backgrounds making films. It’s funny because when I applied to film schools, I applied to the American Film Institute, but for some reason they didn’t like the fact that I had a science background. At Tisch, I feel that the people accepted come from very different backgrounds. Some of them haven’t even made films before. There are architects and people who have been in the Peace Corps and I always find it interesting.
MM: What are you looking most forward to at the 2009 festival?
AG: We are having the opening night at Tribeca Cinemas and I’m looking really forward to that. We’re not set yet on the film, but it might be the Japanese film that I mentioned, The Clone Returns Home.
We also have the world premiere screening of a film called Quantum Quest. It’s sort of an animated space exploration with the voices of Amanda Peet and Samuel L. Jackson, and it’s directed by Harry Kloor, who’s involved with “Star Trek.” And this movie’s been in the making for, I think, six or seven years, so we’re very excited to have the world premiere. We’re trying to build a panel. The director will be there and we’re trying to get some of the actors who did the voices.
The short films are really fantastic—I’m looking forward to all those screenings. We have films that range from love stories to dramas to thrillers, but they all tap into elements of science. We have this film called Ginger, for example, about this redhead boy who realizes that redheads are becoming extinct, and he goes to these labs and starts asking scientists what it means to be a redhead and he starts flirting with girls—redhead girls—because he wants to make sure his species doesn’t die. It’s fantastic and you learn, too.
We’re also excited about all the sponsors, and growing and becoming one of the main festivals in New York.
MM: What do you expect for ISFF in the future?
AG: It’s good that you mention that because, besides the festival, we’re also starting to develop our production company aspect. The idea would be to produce films that have scientific content. What we foresee is that, through the film festival, we are going to give out these filmmaker funds to filmmakers who we think are especially talented, and we will help them make science feature films.
In terms of the film festival, we expect it to expand. Right now all of our screenings are in the evening and we would like for it to be a full day film festival for 10 days.
We are still trying to get into as many neighborhoods as possible right now. We’ve covered parts of Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, but we still have the Bronx and other areas.
For more information on Imagine Science Film Festival, visit www.imaginesciencefilms.com.
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- Comment by Airjordanpremium on 8/10/09 at 12:17 am
Yes, when uttered in the same breath, the words “science” and “cinema” will more often than not elicit images of light saber swordplay, viscous green creatures and wildly inconceivable viruses.
- Comment by Fire science on 9/13/09 at 11:31 pm
Why aliens always attack USA and Europe and never Africa in science fiction films?
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