A wind-up snail is a motif in the winning movie, Interlude (Image: Starcrust/Sci-Fi-London 48hr Film Challenge 2015))
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With this sardonic dig at the movie industry, 麻豆传媒 reader Bradley Sherman of Berkeley, California, became the winner of our Sci-Fi Lines competition. Back in March, we asked you to contribute a line of dialogue to be part of the premise for a science fiction movie in the 48 Hour Challenge at this year鈥檚 SCI-FI-LONDON film festival.
Runner-up Mariela Stancheva from Sofia, Bulgaria, imagined what would happen if water had a memory and Saturn鈥檚 icy moon Enceladus was 鈥渢he solar system鈥檚 biggest data server鈥�.
Another runner-up, Martin Back of Cape Town, South Africa, dreamed up a drug that permanently enhances mirror neurons, 鈥渕aking people too empathetic for society to function鈥�.
Bradley and the nine runners-up win tickets to next year鈥檚 SCI-FI-LONDON festival. Bradley also wins the modern film-maker鈥檚 best friend, a rugged hard drive from G-Technology.
Over the last five years SCI-FI-LONDON has judged more than 1000 films for the 48 Hour Challenge, many of which have gone to other film festivals and been broadcast on TV. This year, the competition received 250 entries from around 4000 people.
The winning movie, Interlude, written by Nathan D鈥橝rcy Roberts and directed by Savvas Stavrou, is a moving, not so very far-fetched 4-minute drama about a machine that manipulates dreams.
In second place was Good Treatment, written and directed by Jamie Sims. It is a deliberately lo-fi, near-future tale of mind-altering hardware 鈥� in this case 鈥渏ust an old iPhone 6鈥� 鈥� and what it does for and to ordinary people. In third place, Skin & Bones, directed by Alistair Montgomery, depicts the end of the world. Well done, everyone.
You can view Interlude and all the shortlisted films at
Congratulations to winner Bradley K. Sherman of Berkeley, California.
And also to the runners-up:
Martin Back, Cape Town, South Africa
Gregory Bradley, Shailer Park, Queensland, Australia
Alex Eller, Effingham, Surrey, UK
Douglas Harned, Cary, North Carolina, US
Peter Kerley, Portsmouth, UK
William Rawling, Manchester, UK
Glen Rayner, Braddon, ACT, Australia
Paula Readings, Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, UK
Jeremy Schmid, Dundee, UK
Mariela Stancheva, Sofia, Bulgaria
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