Science Fiction

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Jennifer Thym is a Hong Kong filmmaker with a genre-bending web series she defines as ‘magical realism’. Lumina features a female lead in a strangely sci-fi modern world where mirrors lead to romance and corporate greed, and a supernatural force called The Mirrorati that are to be feared. Thym developed her web series with some immersive storylines, deep back stories, and a long-term plan that could include a feature film, graphic novelizations, and a MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game.)

“In TV terms, I think it's closest to Lost,” says Thym about Lumina's genre, “a serial thriller interwoven with fantastical elements and real world conspiracies...”

Jennifer Thym's original Hong Kong fantasy web series Lumina jumps from the little screen to the big screen at this past weekend’s Clockenflap Music & Multi-Media Arts Festival held at Hong Kong’s Cyberport. An estimated 3,500 festival attendees had the opportunity to view the Saturday and Sunday screenings of the first Lumina webisode, which to date has been available exclusively online.

“It’s an honor to be invited to the Clockenflap festival and to be part of this exciting time in Hong Kong indie cinema,” says Lumina writer/director Jennifer Thym. “We’re excited about expanding our audience worldwide.”

With over 30,000 views online from word of mouth and grassroots marketing, Lumina's viewership is growing strong, especially with the young female set. In the last month, 30% of all Lumina viewers on YouTube were females between the ages of 13 and 17; the next largest demographic (15%) were males between the ages of 25 and 34...

Directed and written by Jennifer Thym
Featuring Juju Chan, Michael Chan, Jacob Ziacan, Shell Z. Zhu, Vince Matthew Chung
www.luminaseries.com
Review by Jessica Baxter

Written, directed and produced by Jennifer Thym, Lumina is a nine-part web series set in a complex universe of rival realms that are secretly politicizing unbeknownst to the people of modern day Hong Kong. Lumina is a beautiful young girl who is inadvertently drawn into a world she doesn’t understand. Recently broken-hearted, she has immersed herself in work and become the star employee at some sort of think tank. It’s not until she meets the man in the mirror that she realized just how lonely she’s been...

Remember when we told you about Jennifer Thym's Hong Kong fantasy/sci-fi thriller web series Lumina? Well, the series, written and directed by Thym, has just been signed by American Web TV Channel KoldCast.

“This past week has been amazing,” says Lumina writer and director Jennifer Thym. “... I'm so excited that Lumina is now on their slate - it's a big step for a new Hong Kong production like ours!"

Marti Resteghini, VP, Network Programming at KoldCast TV, says that KoldCast has been looking for a special series with which to launch its new International channel. “Lumina is a thrilling fairytale about love, longing and greed...

The director of short sci-fi flick Alien Rose, Virginia Toddy Burton, has a new film making the rounds called The Aviatrix, and now you can check out the film in its entirety online! A dazzling display of special effects, animation, and reality, its an action-adventure fantasy intergalactic comedy romance featuring a superheroine battling cancer.

Anne is lonely. She lives with her mother, has no friends, and is fighting cancer. Her escape from reality exists in the form of The Aviatrix, an intergalactic superhero alter ego who rockets through space to fight the powers of evil on distant planets. Watch the complete film...

Virtual Dating, Katia Olivier's short 2009 sci-fi film, has been added to the 2009 Fantastic Fest film lineup!

Fed up with the dating scene, a young woman purchases a robotic mate and discovers that technology may not be the answer.

The Belgian film is in French with subtitles. Watch the trailer...

QuietEarth reports that a new Spanish sci-fi movie by Ruben Arnaiz called 2038: El Futuro De Ellas is in production and features an all-female future wherin assasins and spies attempt to overthrow governments.

In a future where women rule the world, the world's most dangerous assassin, Michaela Tomasi, is hired by a mysterious organization to assassinate the president of the European Government. The police officer Lara Cabel, along with his partner Mila Briere, are selected for the dangerous task of arresting Michaela. But nothing is as it seems because the political conspiracy to undermine the President has a range that reaches to the depths of the Government. Watch the trailer...

Science fiction has always been a wonderful genre to explore the human spirit; both the kinder aspects and those less kind. You learn a lot about an individual in witnessing their treatment of other things, especially the powerless and the weak. While human beings are certainly capable of noble intentions and acts, we are also quite susceptible to attitudes of apathy, selfishness, and cowardice. These uglier actions manifest even easier when driven by the repulsion and disgust of a people and culture far, far different than our own.

Directed by Virginia Toddy Burton
Written by Toddy Burton and Liz Phang
Featuring Lee Eddy, Chris Sullivan, Janet Kimlicko, Steve Wright, Harper Vickery. Aidan Travis, Juliana Nichols, Joe Ellett, Paul Reyes
2006, 16 minutes

In 1995, when she was a little girl, the Aliens promised Rose that they would come and get her the night of April 1, 2003. For eight long years she has been dreaming for the moment that she'll soar with her extraterrestrial friends across the galaxy in a space ship. Unfortunately, this is the very day that her mother decides enough is enough, and that Rose belongs in a mental institution...