We want to support local creatives
and give them an outlet on the big screen. That's where the festival was born,
in that idea of Space Brains creating a local space for creatives. Because that's something that's super special,
and it boosts peoples' confidence up. It is June 18th, 2022. Welcome to the Space Brains
Science Fiction Film Festival at MANPAC. What are we doing today Surrey? Well, we've just had a couple
of fantastic workshops. One of them about terraforming Mars. The other one about
podcasting. Wow, podcasting? Coming up,
we've got some even better stuff. We've got a film maker,
and we've got an author, and then we've got, of course,
a screening of all of our science fiction films. 16 awesome short science fiction films from all around the globe,
including some in Mandurah. Welcome friends. We have a great day set out for you today. Workshop 1, Podcasting
with Surrey and Mark. When I met Surrey, our kids were at school,
he's another dad at pick up. And actually my wife sai
d, "Finally, you found
someone who can talk more than you." Whatever you're sort of an expert on, that's really why people would tune into your podcast. What's your expertize? We like science fiction. We like talking about it,
but we liked a positive angle on it. H.M. Waugh is a children's author,
educator, and environmental scientist, with a long term love of wild places
and outdoor adventures. My imagination can't come up with some of the cool things that science actually does. It's not like
it's impossible,
it just hasn't been discovered yet. So I'm hoping that some kid will
pick up my book and get so inspired, and become a space scientist
and figure out how to do this. He's an award winning writer and director. I'd like to present to you Ben Young. I think one of the things
with making a sci-fi movie, is in order for an audience to have
any kind of connection with it all, you have to be talking
about contemporary issues. If there are any writers in the
room wanting to write sc
i fi, if it's just because you've got a cool idea for
a set or a location or something like that, it's not going to be enough. Samantha is a multi award winning science fiction and fantasy writer from right here in WA. All of the stories I had up there have things
like aliens and time travel and robots, but also at the heart, they're about very
real human responses and experiences. They're about parenting and they're
about loss and memory and connection. Moviemaking isn't about the technology
,
I think, that's in the movies. It's about the human emotion
that is being experienced. One writer that I was inspired
by was Connie Willis. She has this delicate way of writing a story, where she does things that come back
to grab you and haunt you later. And you don't realize until parts of you fall off, because actually she's she's brought it all around and wrapped these tiny little things
into the ending. That's fantastic. Back in the late 90s, a show called Millenium introduced this i
dea of, to my
impressionable brain at the time, of different perspectives, seeing
the same event radically different. This afternoon we've got a screening. We've got 16 short films. We have science fiction films
that are time travel. We have science fiction films that are
like psychological and sociological. There's a film about cloning
which presents a very interesting
take on the cloning science concept. There's ones where the production values
are absolutely incredible and there's also ones
that the value of the budget was obviously a lot lower,
but the story is incredible. There's quite a short film
which is looking at, an interesting
take on the attitudes we have around payment plans, shall we say. We'll leave it a little bit mysterious, but these are a couple of things
that are quite interesting. I think you'll take away a
bit of something special. We've got the inaugural Space Brains trophies. The winner for Best Mandurah Short Film
at the Space Brains competition, is The Gro
wth by Alex Winner. We move on to, then, Best Writer. Our winner was Subscription Based,
Olivier Bonenfant. Best Australian Short Film, is Spiral by Steven Kerr. It's been a couple of tough years, So just by coming to gigs like this, you do really support and encourage other people to go out and make more arts. I hope you enjoyed seeing your film on a screen before an audience thank you very much.
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