[SA] Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, 2/07

[Buzz Harris]

This is a note about the Boston Science Fiction Film
Festival that I received today. - Buzz

> UFOs spotted over the Charles River
>
> The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival returns to
> Somerville Theatre on President's Day weekend!
> Tickets now available!!
>
> Short film competition debuts!!!
>
> BOSTON - As much fun as an alien
> abduction, but slightly less messy, the 32nd edition
> of the annual Boston Science Fiction Film Festival
> (BSF3) returns to The Somerville Theatre for 24
> hours of science fiction cinematic mayhem on
> February 18-19. Tickets are now available at the
> theatre box office and at www.bostonsci-fi.com.
>
> Begun in 1975 at Cambridge's late, great Orson
> Welles Cinema, "the sci-fi marathon" has become as
> much of a local tradition as clam chowder, rotaries
> and blown Red Sox leads. Some attendees of the
> original Welles edition still faithfully turn up,
> other fest vets now bring their kids along and new
> generations from all over the country have long
> filled out the ranks for the biggest sleepover in
> New England.
>
> This year's theme is "Bots Over Boston." In the
> past, the BSF3 has hosted area premieres of such
> movies as Lawnmower Man, Lucas in Love, Trancers and
> Killer Klowns from Outer Space. Already confirmed
> for the robotic extravaganza is the New England
> premiere of Puzzlehead, about a Brooklyn scientist
> crafting an android, and a revival of the futuristic
> anime hit Metropolis, in which humans and robots
> live side by side.
>
> Taking its tradition of audience-participation
> contests digital, this year's BSF3 debuts "SF
> Shorts." Aspiring filmmakers can submit entries to a
> juried competition and, if chosen, have their shorts
> shown before an audience of sci-fi die-hards.
> "Sci-Fi Shorts" submission details can be found
> online at www.bostonsci-fi.com/shorts.pdf.
>
> "SF Shorts" joins such perennial BSF3 competitions
> as the Aluminum Foil Hat Contest (judged on
> originality and effectiveness at thwarting alien
> mind probes-how this is determined is still unknown)
> and the Alien Mating Cry Contest (the eternal quest
> for the perfect intergalactic soul mate continues).
>
> WHAT: The 32nd annual Boston Science
> Fiction Film Festival
>
> WHEN: Noon February 18 to Noon February 19
>
> WHERE: The Somerville Theatre
>
> 55 Davis Square (Red Line stop: Davis)
>
> Somerville, MA
>
> (617) 625-4088
>
> HOW MUCH: $51. Tickets available at theatre box
> office and www.bostonsci-fi.com.
>
>
>
> ####

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Buzz Harris
Writer, activist, & political researcher

buzz_harris [at] yahoo [dot] com
http://civic-oracle.livejournal.com/

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