SFC Film Festival - 2021

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2021 Posters & Sponsors

Thank you to our sponsors (MajorAIE, NFSA ) (Minor – SRH, Impact Comics, Canberra Innovation Network, TIAS)  who made 2021 SFC Film Festival possible.
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Winners

The following films one at least one award at the 2021 SFC Film Festival. Scroll down for more.

Orbital Christmas

WINNER: Best film with theme “For All Human”
Best Optimistic Sci-Fi

Director: Mitsuyasu Sakai
Country: Japan

Overview:
A space pilot must help a stow away on his space station find her father on earth, who’s gone mising and can be reached.

The Great Voyage

WINNER: Best film with theme “Astronomy”
Best Space Documentary

Director: Ratimir Rakuljić
Country: Croatia

Overview:
A compact adventure through the history of exploration. It follows a trail of curiosity, from the first vessels venturing into the Ocean, all the way to our voyages to the outer planets of the Solar System.

NASA 1958 - 2100 (Timelapse of Past and Future Technology)

WINNER: Best film with theme “Future Space Exploration”

Director: Jacob Barry
Country: UK

Overview:
NASA’s technology has changed the way how humankind lives on Earth, and on the ISS. And they will soon be shaping how humans live on the Moon, Mars, and beyond.

Celestial Twin

WINNER: Best film with theme “Caring For The Universe”

Director: Chana de Moura
Country: Portugal

Overview:
Celestial Twin is a fictional narrative that explores the potentialities of a speculative, non-anthropocentric reality.

GENESIS

WINNER: Best film with theme “Friendly Aliens”

Director: Constantin Kormann
Country: Germany

Overview:
A short speculative fiction about  – our protagonist lands on a foreign planet, finds an alien artifact and travels back into a time, where the planet was covered by a lush forest.

The Collins Story - Connecting the Moon to the Earth: Moon Talk

WINNER: Best film with theme “Rocket Science”

Director: Annette Juergens Busbee & Eric Dean Freese
Country: USA

Overview:
A half century ago, men on board the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo space capsules talked to earth, navigated in space and to the moon and back, and exchanged critical data with mission control. How was this accomplished five decades ago? By the ingenuity and dedication of a company founded in the heartland of America – The Collins Radio Company in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Watch their story in this documentary.

STARGAZER

WINNER: Best film with theme “Space Pioneer”

Director: Arvind Jay
Country: UK

Overview:
STARGAZER follows an estranged, disconnected family on a journey through the stars as they come together after a recent loss.