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Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest
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Smash Cuts! Super Sci-Fi Shorts Fest

Mar 31, 2001
1h 32m
★ 6.0

Grab your friends and cancel your plans for the Trekkie Convention 'cause you're gonna love this!

Overview

Host Scott Forrest presents a curated compilation of eight independent short films in this rapid-fire science-fiction feature. Genres collide, narratives twist, aesthetics clash, and even humor, both campy and dystopian, showcase the vast creative possibilities of each story's individual world, offering the viewer a brief glimpse into the lives of every character's attempt to survive the otherworldly chaos around them. Released in 2001, the selected shorts span original creation dates of 1997 to 2001; most of the featured filmmakers also appear as themselves in short video interviews to talk about their inspirations, creative process and motivations while working on their individual shorts.

Genres

Science Fiction
Horror
Comedy
Thriller

Production Companies

Winston Davis and Associates
Pyros Pictures, Inc.
Apollo Cinema Distribution Corp.
Big Film Shorts
Hollywood Shorts
Industrial Street Productions
The Asylum
Umbrella Productions
Forerunner Films
THE ConsortiuM
First Rites
tribe
Dublin Productions
Strato Films
DCS Entertainment
Creeping Things

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Cast

Scott Forrest

Host / Self

Scott Forrest

Brigette Morrison

Jane Pogue (segment "Amplifier")

Brigette Morrison

Jenn Winter

Miranda Pogue (segment "Amplifier")

Jenn Winter

George Morris

Collector (segment "Amplifier")

George Morris

Richard Baccari

Doctor (segment "Amplifier")

Richard Baccari

Brittany Smith

Young Jane (segment "Amplifier")

Brittany Smith

Miriam Erlichman

Nurse 1 (segment "Amplifier")

Miriam Erlichman

Irene Spadafora

Nurse 2 (segment "Amplifier")

Irene Spadafora

Rhoda Kopstein

Nurse 3 (segment "Amplifier")

Rhoda Kopstein

Alec Saidak

Incomm Agent (segment "Amplifier")

Alec Saidak

Chris Allen

Intern (segment "Amplifier")

Chris Allen

Gabe Bettio

Collector's Assoc. 1 (segment "Amplifier")

Gabe Bettio

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