RISE is a short Sci-Fi film by David Karlak about a robot revolution in the future, told from the perspective of the robots.

The short film stars Anton Yelchin (Star Trek Into Darkness, Terminator Salvation) and Rufus Sewell (Dark City, Hercules), who both deliver exceptional performances. The screenplay is written by Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton (Pacific Rim, God of War). Because RISE was shot over the span of over a year, several talented cinematographers have worked on RISE. They include, Roman Vasyanov, Sam McCurdy, Perry Ho and Chris Probst. The visual effects are being supervised by Scott Metzger.

In the near future, sentient robots are targeted for elimination after they develop emotional symmetry to humans and a revolutionary war for their survival begins.

Basically, RISE is a movie that flips the man v. machine trope on it's head. It's a movie about a robot uprising and revolution, but told from the point-of-view of the robots. Imagine The Arab Spring with robots.

The short film has been a passion project that has relied heavily on friends and favors to get it to where it is today. RISE was shot in piecemeal fashion since early 2013. They transformed skid row in Downtown Los Angeles into a robot slum, built a robot tenement set, and then trekked halfway across the world to wrap up production with a guerrilla shoot in Beijing, China!

A dark psychological horror by young filmmakers. A woman loses her grip on reality after discovering that she could be capable of evil.

WOLF is a short psychological horror film set in a hotel in the 1980’s. A group of university students are left reeling when their closest friend is attacked by an unknown person in the middle of the night, leaving her permanently scarred by the experience. The friends try their best to track down the culprit themselves, but are frustrated when they find that they cant remember what happened due to the amount of alcohol they consumed the night before.  However, there’s one person…. Alice- pure hearted, god-fearing and kind, who starts having very strange dreams… in which she sees herself hurting her closest friend, and in even stranger dreams, sees herself turning into a wolf.  We follow Alice as she struggles comes to terms with the fact that she might have betrayed the people closest to her, and finds her mind deteriorating as the wolf inside her takes over...

An animated short film about a man's collapsing sanity, featuring the voices of Paul Giamatti, Jason Mantzoukas, and Kate McKinnon

GIANT SLOTH is a surrealist tale drawing as much on influences like Fellini and (the main character's namesake) Luis Buñuel as it does animation from the 1960s and 70s.

I backed this Kickstarter project on the basis of Paul Giamatti starring. He is one of my favourite actors and he has deadpan humour.

The Story

The museum where Gordon Boonewell works - The Benchley Museum of Cultural and Natural History - has fallen on hard times. Attendance is down and they've been in the red for ages. So it's no surprise when the museum privatizes... no surprise to anyone other than Gordon.

But Gordon is a curator of the past, a man set in his ways. Ways that are being systematically erased, dumping him into a world he's willfully ignored. Unable to cope with the upheaval alone, Gordon begins to suffer hallucinations. Or at least he hopes they're hallucinations...

THE SAND STORM (沙尘暴) is a dystopian science fiction film set in the not-too-distant future. It is a low-fi sci-fi short, shot and made in (mostly) China, telling the story of a city on the brink of a water shortage through the eyes and interactions of four main characters: a woman, a man, a lover, and a water smuggler.

Originally billed as a secret film filmed in China, with the dissident artist Ai Weiwei. Who plays a small part as "The Water Smuggler" - after a court case and settled disagreement  the billing had to remove the emphasis on the artist himself and focus on the film instead.

Jason Wishnow  a film-maker who has for years been the video manager for the popular micro-talk site and world-famous summit - TED. Wishnow knew Ai Wei Wei's story well - while he was working for TED; a secret Ai Wei Wei TED talk was smuggled to him, for presentation at the 2011 summit. Wishnow left his role at TED at 2013 and flew over to Beijing. During his stay a meeting with the artist was made possible, and an hour into a philosophical conversation, Ai Wei Wei leaned over and asked - "So, what can we do together?". Wishnow did not miss the opportunity and pitched a short story he had been playing around with. A science fiction story: The Sand Storm.

There won’t be any WARS OVER WATER for at least a decade, but this film will show the human turmoil affected by it.
Incredibly talented industry professionals in Beijing, London, Shanghai, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and New York have made this film a reality.

Nikola Tesla was one of the smartest people in history. You can find his discoveries in your lights, computer, TV, radio, cell phone, hair dryer, washing machine, vacuum cleaner, car… even in the satellite that transmit this message to you... but still he is unknown to many people. He dedicated his life to the well-being of humanity, trying to make life on earth better for all and always emphasized the importance of environmental protection ... more than a century ago.

This is one is close to my heart. I always wondered what it would be like to life longer, how we can achieve that and what the implications are of doing so. Ray Kurzweil is my go to website, but this Kickstarter from Tim Maupin promised to explore the consequences of being the 'last generation to die'

Synopsis.
The story takes place roughly 30 years in the future at the moment when science has first figured out how to stop aging through genetics. It is framed around the gulf between generations that would occur with the first release of this technology. A daughter who works for a company called Aperion Life- the first to bring this new technology to the public- wants to save her aging father. She starts him on the trials but he soon stops coming. The film continues with the conflict rising between them as she wants him to live on with her while he feels a natural ending is more human.