The 17th annual Sci-Fi London Film Festival will run from the 27th April until the 6th May 2017 across London with ten days of film, live music, immersive experiences and more.

This year’s event will showcase 6 world film premieres, 13 UK film premieres, 11 world short premieres and 13 UK short premieres. It will host 25 features, 51 shorts and 4 VR shorts alongside its regular classic cult events such as the 48 HOUR FILM CHALLENGE and SCI-FIDO, the world’s only cosplay for dogs!

Opening this year’s festival on the 27th April at the Rich Mix is the UK Premiere of Caught – directed by Jamie Patterson (Fractured), written and produced by Alex Francis (Moon) and starring April Pearson, Mickey Sumner and Cian Berry. It’s the story of a ‘work-from-home’ journalist couple who invite a man and woman, called Mr & Mrs Blair, into their idyllic village home. But what begins with an informal interview descends into a nightmarish fight for survival.

The festival’s Closing Night on the 6th May at Stratford Picturehouse is the World Premiere of The Rizen directed by Matt Mitchell and Taliesyn Mitchell and starring Lee Latchford-Evans, Laura Swift, Tom Goodman-Hill, Adrian Edmondson and Sally Phillips. The year is 1955. NATO and the Allied Forces have been conducting secret, occult experiments in a bid to win the Arms Race. Now, they have finally succeeded but what the Army has unleashed threatens to tear our world apart. One woman must lead the only survivors past horrors that the military has no way to control – and fight to close what should never have been opened.

A team up with the Science Museum and their fantastic blockbuster Robots exhibition, presents a movie double-bill focusing on the world of artificial intelligence with A.I. and Ex Machina.

Other events include: Screenwriter Darren Rapier and Sci-Fi London’s Louis Savy will be hosting a Sci-fi Screenwriting Workshop: Robots & Rockets at the BFI on Sunday 30th April 10.30am. It will take you through the process of creating a low-budget sci-fi screenplay, and provide a practical guide on how to choose the best ideas, then work them into a pitch, synopsis and script.

The festival will host electronic live music event from the future with KRAUTWERK at London’s Moth Club and Ramsgate Music Hall on the 5th and 6th May. SCI-FI-LONDON in association with PsychFI, Bad Vibrations and Snap Crackle & Pop are delighted to bring together one of the most exciting music collaborations in recent years. For the first time, Eberhard Kranemann (Piss Off, Kraftwerk, Neu) and Harald Grosskopf (Synthesist, Ash Ra Tempel, Klaus Shulze) will transmit live their cosmic sonic visions of TODAY, TOMORROW & BEYOND.

Sci-Fido – The World’s Only Cosplay For Dogs Event returns again this year on Sat 29th April at Juju’s Bar, The Old Truman Brewery in association with All Dogs Matter for the Crufts of Science fiction! Do you have a four-legged friend who likes to dress up as a sci-fi character? Or a pooch that looks like Princess Leia? Bring them along to our ‘dressed-up dog’ photo session!

SFB readers may be particularly interested in the Super Sonics Audio Panel, on Friday 28th at 6 pm at the Stratford Picturehouse with guests including Big Finish’s Jason Haigh-Ellery and B7 Media’s Andrew Mark Sewell.

For more details on all the events, including many world and UK movie premieres, click here

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