Alex Fitch interviews Louis Savvy, organiser of Sci-Fi London, the capital’s annual science fiction and fantasy festival about this year’s event. Sci-Fi London is held from the 3rd to the 6th of May and this year features such films as Recon 2022: The Mezzo incident and Plane Dead (a.k.a. Flight of the living dead), documentaries like Future by design and also runs concurrent with Cine-excess, a conference on cult cinema that includes screenings of David Mamet’s Edmond and Gyorgi Palfi’s Taxidermia. Alex and Louis discuss these films, the highlights of last year’s festival and (natch) the current state of sci-fi on the big and small screens.

Originally broadcast 26th April 2007 (mp3 format, 27.3mb)

Links: Sci-Fi London homepage
Cine Excess homepage
Taxidermia review at backprojection.com
If you’d like to buy any of the films that Louis Mentioned which showed in last year’s festival:
Die you zombie bastards!, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America and The Machinist are available to buy on PAL region 2 DVD, while
Subject Two and Recon 2020: The Caprini Massacre are only available on NTSC Region 1 DVD…

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N.B./ This year’s Sci-Fi London features a special 1950s Hammer quadruple bill on May 5th, all the proceeds of which go to help Resonance FM… So, if you were intrigued by my mention of Stolen Face on our Halloween show last year, now’s your chance to see it as well as: X the Unknown, Four Sided Triangle and the seminal British Sci-Fi film Spaceways! Click below for details…