Other Worlds Austin, Austin’s first and only festival dedicated to SciFi filmmaking, is proud to announce the Centerpiece Film for the festival which makes its debut December 4-6, 2014. Time Lapse, directed by Bradley King and written by King and BP Cooper, follows three roommates who discover a machine in a neighboring apartment that shoots out a Polaroid image from 24 hours into the future.  Exploiting this information for their personal gain, the friends find themselves caught in a paradoxical loop of cause and effect.  When one of the photos shows their lives threatened, they must figure out how to break out of the cycle, and just what happened to their neighbor. 

A Texas Premiere, Time Lapse will play OWA on Friday, December 5^th, one of seven features over the course of ten screenings.  Wristbands are on sale for guaranteed seats to all ten screenings for just $45.  Film submissions are open until October 1^st and the full program will be announced November 4^th.

From Bears Fonté, Founder and Director of Programming:

“Time Lapse is the perfect showcase for exactly why I started Other Worlds Austin.  It’s a great story, with a really smart script.  It takes place entirely inside an apartment complex, so it’s not a super high budget film, but these are filmmakers making great use of their resources.  It’s played a lot of really phenomenal festivals already – Seattle, Fantasia, PiFan, Sci-Fi London – and I wanted to make sure audiences in Austin got a chance to see it.  I think fans of Primer or Coherence or a film I programmed last year called Frequencies (originally OXV: The Manual) are really going to enjoy this film.  It’s a bit of a brainwreck, with a fair dose of hitchcockery thrown in.”

About the film:

Three friends, Finn (Matt O’Leary, Fat Kid Rules the World), Jasper (George Finn, LOL), and Callie (Danielle Panabaker, “Justified”), discover their neighbor hasn’t just disappeared, but he has been taking a photograph of their apartment from across the courtyard at the same time everyday for months.  However, they soon realize that these aren’t just images of their window, they’re images from the future.   Using the machine to gamble on horses, they come under suspicion by a dangerous bookie, who has his own plans for their ‘can’t miss’ system.   A tense love-triangle develops, as the roommates combat over just what repercussions their time-tinkering may have.  This is director Bradley King’s first feature, which premiered at Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival in April.

About Other Worlds Austin:

Other Worlds Austin is the one-and-only film festival in Austin, TX dedicated to Science Fiction Filmmaking.  Founded in June 2014 by Bears Fonté, former Director of Programming for Austin Film Festival, OWA hopes to add to Austin’s status as the the ‘geek capital’ of the world.  With a team of programmers who love science fiction, write science fiction, or make science fiction films of their own, we are in this for one reason only, to put on a great festival.  We are looking for great stories that aren’t afraid to push the boundaries of the audience, thrilling them both visually and intellectually.  OWA is firmly committed to supporting exciting filmmakers, by giving them exhibition opportunities for films that are often overlooked on the film festival circuit.  Wristband purchases and more information can be found on www.OtherWorldsAustin.com.