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NEW YORK, NY: March 7th,9th

THURSDAY

SATURDAY

LOS ANGELES, CA: March 14th

THURSDAY

SANTA ANA, CA: March 15 -17

FRIDAY

SATURDAY

SUNDAY

 

Schedule

Saturday, March 9, 2019

The Producers Club

358 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036

(212) 315-4743

https://producersclub.com/

 

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BLOCK ONE

FEATURE - ANIME
11:00 am - 12:30 pm

 

 

ARAGNE: SIGN OF VERMILLION

Director: Osamu Fukutani
Japan, 76 min.
 
A college girl named Rin has moved into one of the room in the building. One night, she sees a huge insect coming out of the arm of a woman. She goes to a library, and learns that they are called spirit Bug's, and have existed since ancient times. Rin attempts to unravel the mystery of the Spirit Bug.
 

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BLOCK TWO

SOLD OUT

Priority seating will go first to individual ticket holders for the block and then to All Day access passes purchased before Friday, March 16 9pm. All Day Access passes purchased after Friday  9pm will be honored based on seating availability after the block 2 starts.
All other blocks still have available seating
 
INTERNATIONAL SCI-FI - Part 1
12:30 pm - 3:00 pm

 

 

THE VAULT - web series

2018
Director: Sara Martins
Canada, 10 min.
 
The Vault is a post-apocalyptic sci-fi web series that follows a ragtag group of survivors living in an underground military bunker known as Vault 175 or the Vault.

 

SEEDLING

2018
Director: Steve Russell
Ireland, 13 min.
 
A young couple have an encounter with a strange, unknown life form.
 

GRAFFITI

2018
Director: Balint Barcsai
Hungary, 19 min.
 
A delinquent sees graffiti of his future self and tries to understand what is happening.

 

COMPATIBLE - web series

2018
Director: Paul Barcardit
USA, 10 min.
 
A man has an opportunity to upgrade himself for greater electronic compatibility.

 

COLONY

2018
Director: Catherine Bonny
Australia, 15 min.
Indentured servants try to establish a new planet but something is alive in the ocean.
 

EVA

2018
Director: Xheni Alushi
Switzerland,15 min.
 
Eva is an introverted young girl who discovers a gateway to a parallel world, in which she finds comfort and ease for her guilt.
 

THE WATCHERS

2018
Director: Andrew McGee
UK, 10 min
Impact in T-minus 97 minutes. 220 miles above our doomed planet, four astronauts on board the International Space Station are forced to confront their fate as the last members of the human race.

 

 

SPACE FLOWER

2018
Director: Pam Covington
USA, 13 min.
 
Woman gets engaged to a robot. Disapproving parents send her into space.
 

FROM LIFE

Director: Uli Meyer
UK, 8 min.
 
An amateur artist sketching in a churchyard has a series of encounters with a young woman, who we might come to believe
is a ghost. In fact, the truth is stranger than that.
 

LA SUPERCAFETERA

2018
Director: Vecktorjack, HD Carlos
Spain, 10 min.
 
Three friends share a very special coffee maker: instead of coffee, it produces pin badges which give superpowers to those who wear them. By using these superpowers, the three geeks get involved in a quest that will eventually take them to a post apocalyptic future.
 
 
 

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BLOCK THREE

BEST OF PHILIP K. DICK SHORTS
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

 

THE LAST

2018
Director: Samuel Turner and Andrew Dobson
UK, 9 min.
Struggling to survive in isolation, a scientist carries out vital work.
 

LAST DANCE

2018
Director: Chris Keller
UK, 8 min.
 
In the not-too-distant future, an old man works alone in his garage ñ click-click-clicking the hours away on an old desktop computer. His name is Hugo, and he is making "something great".
 

THE JUMP

2017
Director: Andy Sowerby
UK, 10 min.
An astronaut braves a pioneering solo mission into deep space, leaving behind her loving husband. Through disjointed communications, she discovers her life on Earth has changed forever.
 

BABY I AM YOURS

2017
Director: Hadley Hillel
USA, 13 min.
In the future as it was imagined in the 1950s, Nathan notices his mother acting strange and begins to question whether or not she is a robot?
 

UNCLE GRIOT

2018
Director: Paul Charisse
UK, 6 min.
A young girl takes her uncle for a walk.
 

THE DRONE

Director: Wojciech Lorenc
USA, 14 min.
The Drone tells a story of DJ - a small quad copter who is simply trying to fit in.

 

 

ZOE

Director: Leif Brunnie
2018
Germany, 14 min.
A young woman without identity or memory. Two scientists with great ambition. A sequence of tests that will bring them all to their psychological frontiers.
 

THE PHOTOGRAPHER

Director: Mazhar Kamran
India,18 min.
A woman appears to a photographer but sometimes not in his pics.
 

FAULTY FATHER

2018
Director: Benjamin Welmond
USA,10 min.
Dad finds out that a backup version of himself exists.
 

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BLOCK FOUR

HORROR /SCI FI SHORTS
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

 

HEADCLEANER

2018
Director: Nick Scott
UK, 28 min.
A documentary filmmaker follows a working class recluse from Scotland who can control his environment through the power of sound. Over a fractured time line we witness the struggle to reconcile the recluse, his mastery of sound and a found footage tape of a sonic weapon called "The Drone".

 

POST MORTEM MARY

2018
Director: Joshua Long
Australia, 15 min.
Mary and her mother run a post-Morten photography business in 1840's Australia.
 

WHISTLER'S MOTHER

2018
Director: Robie Robertson
USA, 18 min.
The artist James McNeill Whistler spent years trying to capture the essence of his mother for his most famous work of art—not to create a masterpiece—but to save his mother from possession by the Baba Yaga, an evil Russian witch.
 

OBSERVER EFFECT

2018
Director: Garret Walsh
Ireland, 19 min.
A woman is haunted by a dark watcher, a man obsessed with thoughts of her vicious murder but as the fateful hour draws near bizarre events unfold to reveal truths they could never imagine - and a secret that will change their lives forever.
 

THE COLD DARK

2018
Director: Mikko Lopponen
Finland, 19 min.
Erica wonders off into the dark to search for medicine for her wounded father. As she rummages a cabin she stumbles upon two men who grant her cover for the night. But something outside is listening.
 

THURSDAY NIGHT BASIC

2018
Director: Mike Hay
UK, 5 min.
The music video tells the story about a man who is changed and ultimately transported to another place - maybe even another dimension - due to watching some strange 8mm footage and drinking something even stranger!
 
 

BEYOND THE WALL OF SLEEP

2018
Director: Peter Miller
Australia,10 min.
 
An exploration of sleep, sanity and space via HP Lovecraft and The Rules and Regulations of the Insane Asylum of California
 

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BLOCK FIVE

FEATURE
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

 

Martini Ranch’s ”Reach"  

Originally released in 1987, remastered in 2017
Written and Directed by  James Cameron 
USA, 9 min
A bank-robbing  biker (Bill Paxton) arrives at a windswept town, Martini Ranch, to party with friends. What he doesn't know is that an all-female posse of bounty hunters is coming for him. An outlaw biker (Paxton), having recently robbed a train depot, arrives in the post-apocalyptic boom town of Martini Ranch. He parties with his crew (Reinhold, Cort, Pasdar, Reiser, Hendricksen, etc.) and enjoys the charms of a local girl (Louise Paxton). Meanwhile, close on his trail is a posse of female bounty Hunters (led by Bigelow). They capture Paxton, hog-tie him and brand him, while hanging one of his cohorts (Todd). Paxton escapes, rounds up his crew and confronts the cowgirls in the street. After being deserted by his crew, Paxton shoots it out with the women alone, but is hopelessly outnumbered.
Produced by Bill Paxton and Tom Huckabee, based on their script “Lonesome Cowgirls: Amazons of the Wild West”. Executive produced by Seymour Stein and David Naylor
Co-starring Bill Paxton, Andrew Todd Rosenthal, Kathryn Bigelow, Lance Henriksen, Paul Reiser, Jenette Goldstein, Judge Reinhold, Brian Thompson,  Philip Granger, Scott Thompson, Adrian Pasdar and Bud Cort as the crazy townie admiring Paxton's motorcycle. 

TAKING TIGER MOUNTAIN REVISITED

1975 (Newly re-edited and remastered)
Directors: Bill Kent Smith and Tom Huckabee
USA, 75 min
In a dystopian future, militant feminist scientists brainwash an American draft evader to assassinate the Welsh minister of prostitution. Written and directed by Tom Huckabee and Bill Kent Smith. Starring Bill Paxton. Co-written by William S. Burroughs.
Starring Bill Paxton in his first screen role.

 

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BLOCK SIX

EXPERIMENTAL SCI-FI - FEATURE
9:00 pm - 10:30 pm

 

ASSIMILATION

2018
Director: John Norby
Ireland, 79 min.

The near future. Exponential growth in technology triggers an event that wipes humankind off the face of the Earth. But from where did the grand plan for this event come and who or what is

 

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