The 2024 Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival Announces Award Winners

THE 2024 PHILIP K. DICK EUROPEAN SCIENCE FICTION FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES AWARD WINNERS


Festival Honored Independent Sci-Fi Cinema in Lille, France


The 2024 Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival has announced the award winners for its fourth gathering that took place October 25-26 in Lille, France, and October 30 in Cologne, Germany. The event saluted the work and legacy of novelist Philip K. Dick with a slate of independent science fiction, horror, and fantasy films, panels, and screenplay competitions.


Congratulations to the award winners of The Philip K. Dick European Science Fiction Film Festival:


BEST PHILIP K. DICK SHORT
Soulmate (2023)
Director: Richard Fenwick
UK, 15 min
Ana, a lonely computer coder, has been nurturing an illegal romance with an AI in a computer simulation for the past six months. When her company uncovers the affair, she’s forced into a desperate battle to save her precious relationship.

BEST SCI-FI SHORT
Demon Box (2022)
Director: Sean Wainsteim
Canada, 14 min
After festival rejections, a director revises his intensely personal short film about trauma, suicide, and the Holocaust, and transforms it into a painful, blunt and funny dissection of the film and his life.

BEST ANIMATION
Skinjob (2017)
Director: Steve Simons
UK, 15 min
A group of slave Androids steal a space shuttle and journey back to earth to find their maker.

BEST SUPERNATURAL SHORT
The Unquiet Dead (2022)
Director: John Gray
US, 12 min
A therapist treats an unstable young woman who claims to be harassed by an assortment of malevolent spirits – who are demanding something from her.

BEST DOCUMENTARY
It’s Not Up To Us (2024)
Director: Anthony Werhun
US, 13 min
Legendary visual artist Nancy Burson sparked a technological revolution by using computer morphing techniques to blend art and science but claims she didn’t do it alone. The complex truth behind Nancy’s beliefs and how they shaped her career evokes questions about the nature of creation and of reality itself.

BEST TRAILER
Burner Face (2023)
Director: John Gauntt
US, 2 min
Composed by a team of 3 creatives + Midjourney AI, this trailer tells a story in less than 2 minutes. It is not a tech demo but a taste of what’s possible when Culture & Code come together.

BEST FEATURE SCI-FI SCREENPLAY
Smart Seed (2024)

BEST SHORT SCI-FI SCREENPLAY
Contrast (2024)

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