Science Fiction

Angela Lee, producer of Zombie Strippers, has a new sci-fi web series in the works called Star Chicks, and her company Scream HQ has turned to the grass roots fund-raising website kickstarter.com to finance it.

Star Chicks stars Penny Drake, Laura Bach and Shannon Malone (from Zombie Strippers) and is a sci-fi comedy set to debut on the web. The series follows three highly trained shape-shifting aliens who are sent to earth to study the planet for eventual takeover. Since Earth is the only planet in the universe to have women, the Scourge believes the gender to be Earth’s most dangerous life form. The highly trained intergalactic agents must infiltrate society and prepare Earth for invasion armed with only a no-limit credit card and an issue of COSMO. Bombarded by strange new emotions and desires, hunted by alien police, the newly minted ladies must decide whether to complete their diabolical mission or to save their new homeworld. And they have to do it all in heels. Watch the trailer...

Great news from QuietEarth again. This time they're reporting on a new sci-fi film hitting the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2010), directed by Chilean filmmaker Alicia Scherson, called The Future. Scherson has adapted Roberto Bolaño's little known apocalyptic novel, "Una Novelita Lumpen."

Scherson says, "since I first read it, I found it to be small and dense like a gemstone. An austere and concise work of contained emotions, a lucid and lean reflection about youth and despair in big cities. Its simple forms and precision is exactly what makes it so adaptable to film..."

Toy and Collectible company Entertainment Earth has decided to exploit geeky girls everywhere by starting a new Geek Girls Section devoted entirely to toys for girls like you, run by their own in-house Geek Girl Diva.

So, now you can stop deleting their newsletter from your inbox and get yourself some My Little Pony/Warhammer crossover figurines. You know, for to add to your sex appeal when guys come over.

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...