VCON 38: Full Schedule

Welcome to the VCON 38 Programming Schedule.

Every year, VCON’s crack Programming team assembles three days jam-packed with the best in panels, workshops, and events to keep you in geek nirvana. We hope that you are as excited by the panels, discussions, workshops and presentations we have on offer this year as we are!

Remember to purchase your weekend membership from our membership registration page before September 15! Adult weekend memberships purchased online are only $45 - 75% of the $60 at the door rate.

6:00pm PDT

Screening: Space Nazis Must Die!

Screening duration: 10 min

Nazis invade the Moon! The year is 1942; an Allied force of Space Commandos must go to the Moon to liberate the Moon Men from the Nazi oppression.

A student project for Vancouver Film School finals, "Space Nazis Must Die" is a campy science fiction short film set in the time period of World War 2. Made in the older style of Science fiction, the film is a nostalgic take on a classic genre with fun and quirky aspects all throughout.
(10 min)

Creator's suggested rating: PG-13 for mild language and mild violence

Moderators

Steven Hoffart

Producer, Link 45 Productions

Steven Hoffart was born in Nanaimo Bc, graduated from Belmont Senior Secondary, and later Vancouver film school. Steven specializes in the Art Department, and has worked as a Set Dresser for near a year in Vancouver. Space Nazis Must Die was his final film at Vancouver Film School, made with love for a genre long forgotten. He plans to take Space Nazis Must Die to the next level and develop it as a web-series and is currently working on pre-production on a feature film... Read More →

Guests

Arpad Balogh

Isaiah Sweigard

I am a young aspiring filmmaker who went to film school, graduating with an expertise in Producing and Directing. After film school I then worked in the Vancouver film industry for 2 years, before quitting and pursuing my own creative outlets.

Friday October 4, 2013 6:00pm - 6:30pm PDT
Room 04: Screenings & Presentations (The Harvard) 2nd Floor

Screening

Category Media
Intended Audience PG-13

10:00pm PDT

Screening: Project London

Screening duration: 85 min.

PROJECT LONDON is a special effects-rich science fiction action movie about a grief stricken young man who joins a ragtag resistance force and engages in epic battles against a global police force to avenge his father and save the planet.

This is a full length independent, almost no-budget, feature-length, live action movie with vivid visual effects and animations created with the open source software Blender (and other traditional software) and 250 (or so) worldwide volunteers. It's the first independent movie from writer director, Ian Hubert and features a story set in Seattle, Washington.

For more information, see the official PROJECT LONDON web site.

Friday October 4, 2013 10:00pm - 11:30pm PDT
Room 04: Screenings & Presentations (The Harvard) 2nd Floor

Screening

Category Media
Intended Audience PG-13

12:00pm PDT

Screening: Life Tracker

Screening duration: 108 minutes

If DNA could predict your future... would you want to know?

When documentary filmmaker Dillon Smith decides to follow a news story about a company called LIFE TRACKER, which claims it can predict a human's future by analyzing DNA, he has no idea how much it will damage his life and the world around him.

For additional information, see the LIFE TRACKER web site

Creator's suggested rating: PG-13 for mild language and mild violence

Saturday October 5, 2013 12:00pm - 2:00pm PDT
Room 04: Screenings & Presentations (The Harvard) 2nd Floor

Screening

Category Media
Intended Audience PG-13

3:00pm PDT

Screening: Indie Science Fiction Videos

Flick Harrison, Vancouver actor, artist and writer brings you an hour of SF art videos and b-movie treats, focussed mainly on current or former Vancouverites. Some of these are world premieres, others are hard to find, all are intriguing and odd.

Chase, by Stuart Pound - 9:26 min
Overhead - Music video for The Floodgates, by Flick Harrison - 4:00 min
Spacemare, by Jessica Slavik (excerpt) - 10:00
Video Art Therapy #1: Journey To A Distant Planet, by Brian MacDonald - 16:32 min
The Moons of Uranus (work in progress), by Clark Nikolai - 10:00 min
...All That Passed, by Stuart Pound - 0:55 min
Black Moon, by Brandon Blommaert - 1:15 min
Quintipus, by Victoria Angel - 8:48 min (more info: Quintipus facebook page)

Flick's suggested rating: PG to PG-13

Guests

Flick Harrison

Consultant, Videographer, ASC!

Videomaker Flick Harrison is a writer, media artist, filmmaker, hacker, educator and drone pilot in Vancouver. He has just launched a consulting project, Polity, which aims to support mission-driven organizations making media and engaging their publics. Starting out on the CBC youth series Road Movies... Read More →

Saturday October 5, 2013 3:00pm - 4:00pm PDT
Room 04: Screenings & Presentations (The Harvard) 2nd Floor

Screening

Category Media
Intended Audience PG, PG-13

8:00pm PDT

Screening: Justice Is Mind

Screening duration: 153 min.

VCON's screening will be the Canadian premiere of Justice is Mind!

In a future where MRI technology can read your mind, the trial of the century soon begins when a defendant faces his own memory for a double murder he doesn't remember committing.

JUSTICE IS MIND is an independent film that envelopes the genres of sci-fi, drama, crime and mystery. It had its world premiere on August 18, 2013 at the Palace Theatre in Albany, NY. VCON is the first science-fiction convention to screen the film and is also honoured to be the host of its Canadian premiere.

For more information, see the official JUSTICE IS MIND web site.

Saturday October 5, 2013 8:00pm - 10:45pm PDT
Room 04: Screenings & Presentations (The Harvard) 2nd Floor

Screening

Category Media
Intended Audience PG-13

9:00pm PDT

The Really Weird Saturday Night Monster Attack Creatures Sampler

Join Monster Attack Team for three hours of really unusual video that you have probably never seen before. Superheroes, monsters, science fiction . . . alternate worlds to be wondered at!

Saturday October 5, 2013 9:00pm - Sunday October 6, 2013 12:00am PDT
Room 05: Monster Attack Team (de Havilland) 11th Floor

Screening

Category Genre Fiction, Media
Intended Audience Everyone

10:00am PDT

Screening: Radioactive Wolves - Wildlife in the Dead Zone Around the Chernobyl Disaster

Session Duration: 1.5 hrs

There have been reports of wolves in the dead zone around Chernobyl. Are the wolves moving in from elsewhere and dying, or are they reproducing in this environment?

This documentary, which was made for the Nature TV series, follows scientists and naturalists who enter the dead zone and observe the effects of radiation on the wildlife. It includes rare footage of the modern 'red forest' and the abandoned villages & cities near the reactor.

The movie is under an hour and the remaining time will be spent in an open discussion about the movie with lecturer Richard W. Smith.

Moderators

Richard Smith

Richard Smith has been a teacher, professional game designer and programmer. He is a serious science geek and facinated by terraforming Mars. He has given numerous talks at V-Con on subjects of science and the future.

Sunday October 6, 2013 10:00am - 11:30am PDT
Room 04: Screenings & Presentations (The Harvard) 2nd Floor

Screening

Category Science
Intended Audience Everyone

VCON 38

6:00pm PDT

Steven Hoffart

Arpad Balogh

Isaiah Sweigard

10:00pm PDT

12:00pm PDT

3:00pm PDT

Flick Harrison

8:00pm PDT

9:00pm PDT

10:00am PDT

Richard Smith

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