THE NEW YORK SCIENCE FICTION FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FOURTH ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS
Red Earth Wins Best Sci-Fi Feature
NY Premiere of The Coldness Takes Home Best Supernatural Feature
The New York Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the the award winners for its fourth annual event, which presented a lineup of films, discussions, virtual reality, and screenplay and graphic novel competitions. Screenings were held on Saturday, September 14, 2024 at Stuart City Cinema in Brooklyn. For more information, visit https://www.newyorksci-fifest.com.
Congratulations to the award winners of The 2024 The New York Science Fiction Film Festival:
Best Science Fiction Feature
Red Earth (2022)
Director: Georg Adrian Koszulinski
66 minutes, USA
Red Earth imagines a world in the late Anthropocene, where large parts of Earth have become inhospitable to life. The story follows three generations of Martians, from the first colonists to the first expedition to return to an Earth decimated by interplanetary war.
Best Supernatural Feature
The Coldness (2024) — NY PREMIERE
Director: Gustavo Sampaio
75 minutes, USA
Nick Polito, a retired Jersey City homicide detective with a haunted past, comes to Los Angeles in search of answers to a recent gruesome death that is shockingly like a case that has been an obsession for him since 1999. Determined to find out what happened, Nick connects with his former partner and encounters a cast of characters that lead him steadily down a disturbing path into lethal occult darkness.
Best Science Fiction Short in a Dramatic Setting
LifeQuest (2023)
Director: Richard Lounello
25 minutes, USA
A young physicist lives out his life in search of his greatest scientific discovery and finds one extraordinary truth.
Best Conspiracy Science Fiction Short
The BiodiverCity (2024)
Director: Masataka Ishizaki
11 minutes, USA
In 2035, people live in one big area due to the biodiversity program in which humanity must stay away from nature for the environmental treatment. Nora thinks about Tree because she never saw it. So she decides to go outside to see it with Eric.
Best Short Documentary
You, Forever (2024)
Director: Brenda Kovrig
14 minutes, Canada
A short hybrid film that incorporates documentary and dark comedy fantasy fiction. Robert Ettinger, ‘the father of cryonics,’ speaks of his life’s work while his ‘patients’ experience an unnatural existence in suspended animation.
Best Animation Short
Sileo (2023)
Director: Demeter Lorant
8 minutes, Hungary
A robot after working for years in a factory and being repaired and replaced bit by bit realizes that he doesn’t want to loose his identity and sets out to find his creator.
Best Horror Short
Dear Elf on the Shelf (2024)
Director: Tor Martin Norvik
2 minutes, Norway
A captivating tale of a young girl’s emotional journey, intertwining reality with the magical lore of the Elf on the Shelf. As the holiday season envelops her home in joy and cheer, nine-year-old Emily encounters her family’s Elf on the Shelf in an unexpected light, sparking a series of mysterious events.
Best Dark Fantasy Short
ADA (2023)
Director: Anaïs Vachez
16 minutes, France
Ada, an eight-year-old girl, witnesses the ongoing tensions between her parents. One evening, a particularly heated argument breaks out.
Best Trailer
Wisper (2018; Trailer)
Director: Russ Emanuel
1 minute, USA
In June 2016, a loving family was found shot to death at their suburban home in Northern New Jersey.
Best Music Video
The Panharmonion Chronicles: Times of London (2022)
Director: Henry Chebaane
3 minutes, UK
The video was written and shot as a short film teaser, introducing the creator of the story as a character inside his own fictional universe, which happens to exist also in our own reality. Here, the author-protagonist appears as a time-travel engineer who got lost into the dreamlike world of his own creation.
Best Virtual Reality
Asteroid Quest
Director: Bertrand Jack Daniel Loyer
France
Best Feature Sci-Fi Screenplay
Alpha Chase
Writer: Chuck Gordon
United States
Best Feature Supernatural Screenplay
Restoration
Writer: Don Stroud, Winter Mead
United States
Best Graphic Novel
Halloween Girl Book One: Promises to Keep
Writer: Richard T. Wilson
United States
Best World Building Sci-Fi Screenplay
Inversion
Writer: Suzy Stein, Fernando Perez
United States
Best Sci-Fi Short Screenplay
I/O (Input-Output)
Writer: Molly J Vernon
United States
Best Supernatural Short Screenplay
Sight Specific
Writer: Peter Hardy
United States
About The New York Science Fiction Film Festival:
Founded in 2017, The New York Science Fiction Film Festival celebrates freedom of expression and the unique approaches of independent filmmakers as a merit to the science fiction, horror, supernatural, and fantasy genres. By honoring a groundbreaking past and looking ahead to an unprecedented future, the festival is committed to encompassing the brilliance of film.
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