We have talked about this for a while now, and with various delays we can now say for certain you will get an online first look of Casimir Effect in this coming week. We will be showing a teaser at Sex, Wales and Anarchy 3, and then for the next 7 days it will be available on Youtube. On the 11th of September 2010 it will be removed and replaced with the proper short teaser which will be available to send out to everywhere.
Once the Teaser is live there will be a new blog post with the link so keep your eyes peeled then tweet, retweet and let everyone know and get them to have a look, before it has gone.
It looks like the wave of new sci-fi is building, Casimir Effect is set for the festival circuit in 2011. Alvarez looks like he may have something here, though ther is no plot as such the atmosphere is there and I love the robots big clunky robust just want you want for an invasion fleet.
The hotly tipped future talent of the minute is Federico Alvarez, a 30 year old Uruguyan behind the YouTube smash sci-fi short called Panic Attack – which you can see below the break. So far, Alvarez seems to be following a very similar racing line to the one Neill Blomkamp has roared around over the last few years.
Whereas Blomkamp’s breakthrough short was Alive in Joburg, a shaky-cam alien invasion picture set in South Africa, Alvarez has now made his crash landing with Panic Attack… a shaky-cam alien invasion picture set in Uruguay. The latter features rather more giant robots, however, which you may see as a very good thing.
Blomkamp’s protector/mentor in making the transition to feature length filmmaking was Peter Jackson, while Alvarez has in turn been taken under the wing of Sam Raimi. Apparently the two have already spoken at length and the expectation is that Raimi will help Alvarez make the transition to feature filmmaking without too much interference from suits and money men.
Casimir Effect is a science fiction romance lo-no budget independently made film. Starring Zöe Mills, Gareth David Lloyd (Torchwood) and Neil Rayment (Matrix Reloaded). It was shot in Wales, UK in March 2010 and is now in post-production.
We are still looking for support to complete post-production and would like to thank all the cast, crew and generous people who have helped and supported Casimir Effect so far.
