May the 4th be with you!

Yes, it’s our annual SCRIPT PITCH SCI FI SPECIAL.

That means you have before you the best new script projects in the SF genre. Anywhere. That’s a fact.

Here are the loglines from this year’s Sci-Fi Pitch.

To read complete pitches and to contact any of the writers, please email Andy.

 

Title: Trap

Genre: Sci-fi Thriller

Length: 116

Author: Mohammed Azhar

Logline: A former video games champion is coerced by a renegade artificial intelligence to return to the games arena for one last deadly battle.

Title: The Callers

Genre: Sci fi

Length: 90 pages

Author: Heather Hampson

Logline: Jim suffers memory loss after a night out and wakes up to find himself with a mysterious scar on his torso. Soon he realises he’s been subjected to an alien reconnaissance experiment, but when the government start to treat him like an alien himself, he begins to sympathise with the other world.

Title: SYMBIONT

Genre: Sci-Fi

Length: Feature

Author: Lynwood Shiva Sawyer, Based on a Story by Andrew Selwyn-Crome and David Selwybn

Logline: Their future. Your doom. What if the Aliens were in league with the 1%, the Military and the Media to rule the earth? Enslaving the youth of the world with student debt, forcing Millennials to live in concentration-camp conditions and work in Dickensian warehouses?

Title: From Another Place

Genre: Sci-Fi Horror Comedy

Length: 95 mins

Author: Darren Roberts

Logline: Whilst developing a quantum teleporter three scientists discover the system has a few gremlins in it, real gremlins, with rabbit heads, and the ability to create the undead. As the weirdness mounts up they realise they have damaged the fabric of reality and if they don’t fix it it could mean the end of all existence. so no pressure there then.

Title: Alone

Genre: Sci Fi

Length: 90 Minutes

Author: Sean-Paul Thomas

Logline: A young man awakens from a long hibernation sleep on-board an eerie and crew-less space shuttle with no memory of who he is or how he ended up on board the ‘lost in space’ vessel.

Title: Doppel-G

Genre: Sci-Fi

Length: 6-7

Author: Paul W Franklin

Logline: When Georgia’s doorbell rings, she opens the door to a woman she recognises but has never met – Herself.

Title: Cycle

Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller

Length: 10 minutes

Author: Carlo Ortu

Logline: A woman must find her way out of a time loop if she and her fiancé are to survive.

Title: Gemini to Virgo

Genre: Sci-Fi Drama

Length: 6 mins

Author: Darren Roberts

Logline: A mother must make the heartbreaking decision to keep one of her daughters alive through the body of the other.

Title: Manni

Genre: Film short

Length: 15 minutes

Author: Eveline Powell

Logline: One man’s descent into alcoholism, told in reverse order, showing how and why this happened.

Title: The Wrong Day

Genre: Dark Comedy Sci Fi

Length: 15 – 20 minutes

Author: Dan Witherall & Colin Adams-Toomey

Logline: Eric’s a survivalist. And a conspiracy nut. He doesn’t just think they are coming. He knows they are. He’s been training his entire life for the inevitable: ALIENS! Only, when they finally come, he’s got flu. And he’s wearing slippers. And a onesie. And he’s in a shop across town from his flat.

Title: Drone

Genre: Sci-Fi Thriller

Length: 10-12

Author: Paul W Franklin

Logline: Married couple Victor and Ellie spend a few days looking after his parents’ farmhouse, where their strained relationship is tested further by a curious, recurring noise. Then Ellie disappears.