Sci-fi Creative Corner

Today we're talking to Atlanta Director, Tim Glover - the winner of the IMAX Big Picture In Focus Award for his sci-fi film short N-Touch, at The Atlanta Sci-fi Film Festival 2016. Check out what he has to say about making of this awesome film short and his experience as an Atlanta filmmaker.

Today we're pointing out what director, Rupert Sanders of Ghost in the Shell, got right and what he got very wrong! And why it's perfect for an IMAX screen!

Today in sci-fi news, we talk about everything from Cosplay shutting down the streets of Japan to Octavia Butler's Kindred being turned into a graphic novel!

This is the 2nd half of our hour long review of the awesome, Logan!

In this two part podcast show, we celebrate and dive deep into the last Wolverine movie, Logan! This is NOT Spoiler Free! Please come back and listen after you've seen the movie. In this show we discuss a quote from the director, here's the link to where we found the quote - http://www.slashfilm.com/caliban-in-logan-and-x-men-apocalypse/

In this Hour long, in depth conversation on robots and artificial intelligence, we contextualize the ideas of robots and artificial intelligence within various narrative traditions that still effect the way public discourse is conducted on the topic. The nightmare of the scientist creating artificial life, as in Frankenstein is a clear concern for most. Looking into the religious and moral effects this may cause. We also discuss Rossum's Universal Robots as the origin of the word "robot," and how it sets the tone of robot invasion going forward. Notes: Mark Riedl's live-tweeted while watching all the Westworld episodes, and collected the tweets up here: https://storify.com/mark_riedl/i-livetweeted-the-first-episode-of-westworld Dr. Bates also wrote about how he thought reveries worked (with downloadable code experiments): https://medium.com/@mark_riedl/westworld-programming-ai-to-feel-pain-f26195c798ee#.yp45leb6b And here is the piece from the former head of DARPA, Arati Prabhakar: http://www.wired.co.uk/article/darpa-arati-prabhakar-humans-machines And finally, here is the piece about machines and pain: https://www.engadget.com/2016/05/26/german-scientists-are-training-robots-to-feel-pain/

Watching certain sci-fi films can be very empowering! Watching characters discover their true potential can be a great reminder of how we can do the same in our own lives!

Today we are talking about ability/disability in sci-fi. We realize that it is problematic to identify characters with disabilities by their impairment, but for the sake of the conversation we are going to sometimes do that because we want to highlight some of these characters as people with disabilities and think about how they are represented. We want creators to know that if they cast actors and create multi-faceted characters with disabilities in sci-fi films/shows, that they have got our support.

For the second part of this podcast, we're continuing our great conversation with Grace Rowe. Discussing her film, The Sweetening and her fundraising experience and much more! (Watch the film by going to www.TheSweetening.com) Spoiler alert if you haven't seen it yet)

I'm interviewing the talented, writer, director and star of the short film, The Sweetening! In this 2 part podcast, we're discussing the film and her experience directing herself in this award winning film and Much more!! (Watch the film by going to www.TheSweetening.com) Spoiler alert if you haven't seen it yet)