Talk - The Pauper's Guide to Science Fiction Film Making May 27, 2009

Sci-Fi London Festival Director to talk on 'The Pauper's Guide to Science Fiction Film Making'. The British Council in vites you to learn more about bad big budget and great low budget sci-fi movies and watch in novative examples of the 48-hour film challenge organised in London at a talk on 'The Pauper's Guide to Science Fiction Film Mak in g' by Louis Savy, Creator and Festival Director of the in ternationally recognised annual genre film festival Sci-Fi-London. The most commonly said th in g about science fiction film is that it costs a lot of money to make, takes a long time to produce and is beyond the reach of small producers. Whilst, science fiction film, like any film, can be expensive good science fiction film can be made for little or no money. At the talk, Louis Savy will address this challenge, and how it is possible to make a decent sci-fi shorts for little or no budget. The discussion will in clude some def in itions on what science fiction and speculative fiction are, talk over storyl in es and some films that may not at first appear to be sci-fi but do follow sci-fi tropes. Louis will also discuss great low budget movies like PRIMER, American Astronaut and Cryptic look in g at how these films have been in novative in their storytell in g, gadgets, mach in es and tell in g of back story and so on all on very t in y budgets.

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