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Balticon 44 SNSFF Screening Schedule for Sunday, May 30, 2010

Director Shaun Springer, USA - The story of a young girl who is left to trick-or-treat on her own. A small detour takes her on a strange and imaginative adventure with a new companion.

Director Denis van Waerebeke, France - 14-year-old Alphonse's favourite food is "TV-Pop corn-soda"! Captivated by his TV programme, he gulps down food without even noticing!

Directors Jordan Sharon, Brian May, USA - A short film with a message of energy conservation. When a girl leaves a light on in her closet, an electrical current escapes and begin turning on everything in the house.

Director Mike Doto, USA - When a l0-year-old boy sees his father on the cover of a magazine dressed as his favorite superhero he begins to suspect that his father is the real comic book hero. A story about fathers and sons, imagination and magic, and believing in something larger than ourselves.

Director Henrik B. Clausen, Denmark - Marvin has the most boring job in the universe - but all is not as it seems.

Director Matthew Ladensack, USA - The year is 2210 - humankind is faced with one option for survival: moving to outer space. The most precious of Earth's natural resources have been depleted; the planet has been ripped apart by war and natural disasters. Survival of the fittest transforms into survival of the luckiest when a family gets last minute tickets to board the Space Station.

Directors Henrik Sonniksen, Benjamin Nielson, Denmark - A ravenous rotten avocado crashes a swinging Mexican fiesta and starts devouring the guests... Vegeterrible is a film about the last tomato standing's race for his life.

Director OK Go, James Frost, Synn Labs, USA - A real live Rube Goldberg machine with OK Go in the middle of it.

Director Jason Damian, USA - Watch what happens when Harley Quinn has a blind date with the eccentric man-child, Pee Wee Herman.

Director Matthew Gordon Long, Canada - Steampunk science-fiction short set in the late nineteenth century, drawing inspiration from a whimsical juxtaposition of Pacific Rim cultural references to elaborate an elegant meditation on the courage of curiosity and the haunting effect of childhood trauma.

Director Malcolm Sutherland, Canada - When a hungry Astronomer falls asleep while working on a problem, he discovers a solution not in outer space, but in the surreal food-chain of his subconscious mind.

Director Michael David Lynch, USA - Calik, a lone "Watcher" with superpowers, decides to disobey his orders to evacuate Earth and battle an alien invasion force in an attempt to protect humans and save our world. Fighting for hope when there is none.

Director Andres Salaff, USA - A brilliant Scientist travels through various dimensions and realms in search of his lost love.

Director Jason Damian, USA - Wally West is grieving the death of his mentor, Barry Allen, The Flash, when two of Gotham's City's most sensational villains, Harley Quinn and Talia al Ghul, come to Kansas to ask for his. Now Wally must choose between wallowing in his grief or helping the 2 villains, and in the process determine his own future.

Directors Thomas Fosseli, Fredrik A. Sundbye, Norway - In the future, all have Clones for spare organs. In extreme cases one's entire consciousness can be transferred to the spare for a full body replacement. The films asks: what if such a technology existed?

Director Kyle Von Tonder, South Africa - If one's memory is void are we reduced to the level of an organic computer capable of executing, processing and calculating? Roger runs into moral difficulties with his associate, Mark, as they attempt to harness the brain power of a living human being in order to operate an internet server.

Director Jorge Morais Valle, Spain - A crazy painter and his faithful assistant try to find the solution against perpetual storms. Sea is destroying their home. A magic boiler and some tormented ghosts will help them to find the light.

Director Mike Salva, USA - Frankenstein revisited.

Director Brendon DeVore, USA - In 2083, a fellow corporate SS officer discovers Herr K. Hesse spearheading a plot to assassinate the third clone of Hitler. Hesse must try to silence his accuser in the only honorable way, a duel to the death.

Director Lonnie Martin, USA - Posi+ive takes place in a not-so-distant future where a ban on sex and marriage is placed on HIV positive individuals. In response, a biotech industry selling life-like robot "Companions" has arisen. Ian, a positive, purchases a Companion and tries to love her, hoping she will have the capability to love him back.

Director Davide Melini, Spain - In order to forget about a heated argument wit his girlfriend, Mark decides to get in the car and go far away. But a little mistake will change his reality forever... "YOU CANNOT RUN FROM FATE"

Director Bryan Alexander, USA - The trials and tribulations of romantic involvement with a zombie.

Director John Whitney, USA - A low tech science fiction film that follows the story of a young woman facing a desperate situation and an impossible decision in a dystopian future America embroiled in an unending "war on terror".

Director Jamison Derfler, USA - Two strangers visit a tavern, finding more than just food and drink.

Directors Lee Citron, Sarah Park, USA - In a future flooded with technology for sex, a synthetic romance ensues between a man and his pleasure droid.

Director Bill Plympton, USA - We all think of Santa as "Jolly ole St. Nick". But who knew he has a dark hidden past that's very unjolly? This short film explores Santa's flirtation with politics and greed.

Wait! Stay in your seats for the Director's Cut of Deadlands 2: Trapped!

Filmmaker Gary Ugarek is hand carrying to Balticon this special Director's Cut of the sequel to Deadlands: The Rising (which was screened at the Sunday Midnight Movie at Balticon a few years ago.)

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