Brooklyn SciFi returns to SXSW in Austin, TX for their 2025 film festival. Here's a peek at the films we screened including Ash, Clown in a Cornfield, It Ends, and Infinite Husk.

The United Palace Theater in Washington Heights is celebrating its 95th Anniversary with a Star Wars Triple-Feature and special events on Saturday February 22, 2025.

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival's fifth season, running from October 14-20, features over 200 independent sci-fi and fantasy films globally. The festival celebrates inclusivity and offers live events, online screenings, interactive experiences, a Godzilla tribute, and a music showcase. Attendees can participate in networking nights, awards screenings, and more. Tickets and details are available on the festival's website.

The Usual, an animated comedy sci-fi short, written by Yeni Alvarez and directed by Rachel Brewster was accepted into three film festivals. This short film with a zero budget premiered at the legendary Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood, as part of the Silicon Beach Film Festival.

Official Film Selections Announced for the 2024 Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival

After delving into Flat Earth theories, moon landing hoaxes, chemtrails and alien abductions, you’d think there would be no way to top that, but the sci-fi comedy Illuminagents is showing just how deep the rabbit hole goes with its second season.

Call for entries! WIA NYC (Women In Animation) is excited to announce their first annual WIA NYC Animation Festival taking place on August 17th 2024,  hosted at SVA Theater!

SciFi and independent film fans celebrate the return of the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival Oct 9 - 15th with 130+ films from 26 countries, online or in person.

“Many science fiction films are told from a male perspective,” notes Long. “We wanted to personalize this genre with our own experiences as women of different ages by focusing on a new technology that has terrifying potential.” Homologies has also been selected to screen at the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival in October.

135 short and feature length SciFi films have been selected for the 2023 Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival and will be available to stream online October 9th - 15th, 2023.

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival is kicking off its fourth season this year, and is pleased to announce that 135 films have been selected for screening at this year's festival. Running from October 9th through October 15th, SciFi fans from around the world are welcomed to join this one-of-a-kind event, as all films will be made available online for streaming and rating through Brooklyn SciFi's Netflix-style festival platform.

Brooklyn SciFi is looking for volunteer screeners to rate films for our 2023 festival. Screenings start August 1.

Deep in the suburbs of Arizona, three trainwreck siblings are charged with the care of their trainwreck father, who may or may not live a secret alien life. John J. Caswell, Jr.’s brutally funny new play pierces one family’s emotional void as they search the cosmos to find a common language. Don’t miss this startling sensory feast from the award-winning director of WOLF PLAY, Dustin Wills.

Best Live Action Short Film Winner Daniel Lasker receiving international honors for his film The Signal. Now set to spearhead the EuroZimFest film discussion session.

185 Films announced to debut at Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival 2022.

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival has officially opened for early bird film submissions, a festival poster design competition, and music submissions for The Future Sounds of Brooklyn Part 2.

The finalists were chosen from 162 selections and will be considered for awards in seven different categories including Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short, Best Comedy SciFi Short, Best Student Short and Best SciFi Feature.

Submit your original SciFi inspired music track for inclusion in the Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival. Selected entries will go onto the Future Sounds of Brooklyn playlist for distribution during the festival.

Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival is happy to announce our partnership with the Jimbocho Movie Festival in Japan.

Announcing our official film selections that will be available to stream at this years festival starting September 20th. Get your free virtual festival tickets now! And congratulations to all the selected filmmakers.

Get the origin story behind BSFFF and a glimpse at the festival's future in Brooklyn Magazine this month.

The Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival returns for a second year, continuing its mission to bring a diverse slate of independent, SciFi films to one of the most innovative and creative hubs in the world: Brooklyn.

Take a 12 minute flyby of all your favorite starships in this amazing 3D comparison. Possibly the best video on YouTube!

Checkout our new trailer for season 2021 featuring cuts from our 2020 selections.

Don't know your Death Stars from your Starkillers? Or having trouble recommending the right size Star Destroyer to retake Hoth? Check out this 3D comparison from MetaBall Studios.

Checkout our new trailer for season 2021 featuring cuts from our 2020 selections.