LIFE BEGINS Screens at Santa Monica Film Festival

Life Begins at Rewirement screens this 5 p.m., Saturday Aug. 3 at the Santa Monica Film Festival. Tix are free! Bring your friends, family and Domestic Android Nurses!

Lo-fi Sci-fi Digs LIFE BEGINS

We love that our projects allow us to connect with total strangers all over the world. A great blog called Lo-fi Sci-fi did a write-up on LIFE BEGINS earlier this year. After a little digging, we learned the site is from Jim Munroe, a Toronto-based sci-fi author, filmmaker and DIY evangelist. His No Media Kings blog is full of advice and inspiration on making your own content - from video games to movies to novels. We picked Jim's brain a little about our film:

How did you hear about Futurestates?

First through Eric Zimmerman, a game developer I know who has a short in the first series, and then via Matthew Meschery at Indiecade.

You mentioned LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT was your favorite from Season 3 of Futurestates. Why?

 I liked that it was focused on an under-exposed time in life -- moving parents to an old-age home.

What was your favorite part of the film?

The moment when he goes back and realizes her favourite moment is with him as a child -- a moment he'd forgotten. It redeems both of these fairly unlikeable characters somehow.

Check out the trailer to Jim's film GHOSTS WITH SHIT JOBS:

Want to submit a video to Lo-fi Sci-fi? Go here.

io9 Showcases LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT

Shut the front door, LIFE BEGINS is featured on one of our favorite sites in the world - io9!

Writer Lauren Davis gives us some love and acknowledges our amazing cast. Take a look here:

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Director Trevin Matcek Speaks at USC: Science in Film

Back in November, Trevin was asked to speak at his alma mater USC for students competing in a short film competition dealing with scientific themes. The students were tasked with explaining and illustrating a scientific concept, principle, or issue for a wide, non-expert audience. Though Trevin's most recent work has dealt with futuristic sci-fi, his stories are based on real concepts and research. Here, he talks about how to create a futuristic world on a low a budget as seen in LIFE BEGINS AT REWIREMENT and more.

OBLIVION in Theaters This Weekend

A movie I put six months of my life into comes out today. I worked on the previsualization team, helping director Joe Kosinski bring this futuristic world to screen. See it (in IMAX) if you can. Really proud of it. Big world, small story. Cold sci-fi that still has a pulse - and wears its heart on its sleeve...Trevin

New Screening Added for YOU, ME + WE in Seattle

If you missed your chance to get tickets to the 2013 Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Film Festival and see YOU, ME + WE, there's another opportunity! Another screening has been added on Sunday Jan. 20, tickets available here. We're really looking forward to this festival.

Full report to follow...

YOU, ME + WE to Screen in Seattle!

This little short just keeps on kicking, next up is the Sci-Fi + Fantasy Short Film Fest in Seattle! We'll be screening at the Cinerama Theater on a 90 feet screen for a sold-out crowd of 800. Trevin will be in attendance. Looking forward to watching it with this enthusiastic crowd in the Northwest.