WORT 89.9FM Madison · There Are No Bugs In Winter Zero Budget Science Fiction Born Out Of Pandemic

If you’re stuck inside during a global pandemic as winter descends, what do you do to keep from going stir crazy?  Well if you are University of Wisconsin researchers Claudia Solis-Lemus and Daniel Pimental Alarcón, you use your time to make a zero-budget science fiction film.  The resulting film, “There Are No Bugs in Winter,” won the best science fiction film award at the 2023 Hispanic International Film Festival.  The film is the brainchild of writer and director Claudia Solis-Lemus, a professor of plant pathology at the University of Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, and  writer and actor Daniel Pimental Alarcón, a professor of biostatistics and medical informatics.

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