Sydney Indie Film Festival – Australiens – Saturday 17^th October – Sci-Fi Opening Afternoon

Feature Film:

Australiens (Australia)

At the age of 10, Australian-born Andi Gibson had what she describes as a close encounter with a flying saucer. Naturally, everyone assumed she was bonkers. That is until one notable evening, 17 years later, when an airborne extra-terrestrial armada launches a nation-wide assault on Andi’s home country and at the same time, for unspecified reasons, kidnaps her mother. To add to the debacle, it seems the other nations of the world are far too insulted by their exclusion from the attack to come to Australia’s aid. Now it’s up to Andi, her hypochondriac brother Elliot, retired boxer cousin Keith and documentary filmmaker friend Cam to stop the attack and rescue Andi’s mum. Enlisting the help of Andi’s equal-parts mysterious and cringe-worthy father, the gang must battle car-chasing spaceships, martial-arts aliens, giant killer robots and, perhaps most frighteningly, a deluge of family secrets in their fight to save Australia. Bloody hell, this is gonna be a long night.

Director: Joseph Bauer
Cast: Rita Artmann, Rob Jenkins, Emma Randall, Tamara McLaughlin, Lawrence Silver, Doug Hatch, Joseph Bauer

Short Film:

Max (USA)

Some decisions are tough. A very hard day in the life of Annette Davis….

Director: Rajesh Naroth Cast: Bettina Devin, Quinn Saunders

Max – Film Still Image

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