Panel Borders: Dan Dare in the 20th Century Continuing our month of shows about collectives and anthologies, we have a recording of a panel discussion from Sci-Fi London in 2010, celebrating the continuing popularity of the iconic British Space Hero whose first appearance in The Eagle was published in April 1950. Comics editor and writer [...]
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Panel Borders: Dan Dare in the 20th Century
Published by April 21st, 2011 in Panel Borders and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Virtual Worlds on film
Published by April 11th, 2011 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Virtual Worlds on film Virtual worlds on the big screen vary from the most escapist to the increasingly relevant and in this episode of Sci-Fi London’s podcast we look at two very different representations of these on screen. Alex Fitch talks to Nicolas Alberny and Jean Mach, the directors of 8th Wonderland, a [...]
Reality Check: Twisted Tales
Published by February 22nd, 2011 in Clear Spot and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Twisted Tales Currently on stage at the Lyric, Hammersmith until 28th February is Jeremy Dyson’s adaptation of Roald Dahl’s “Twisted Tales”, combining five of his black comedy short stories into an eighty minute play about man’s inhumanity to man and the awkwardness of commuting… In a Q and A recorded after a performance [...]
Reality Check: Casting and creating Paul
Published by February 11th, 2011 in Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Casting and creating Paul Sci-Fi London is proud to present a recording of the London press conference for a new Sci-Fi Comedy released on Valentine’s Day, as cast members Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Sigourney Weaver, Joe Lo Truglio, Jason Bateman and director Greg Mottola discuss the making of the film ‘Paul’, from interacting [...]
Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 2
Published by January 8th, 2011 in Panel Borders and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Future Publishing? part 2 Tom Hunter (Arthur C. Clarke Awards Administrator), Paul Graham-Raven (editor-in-chief of the science fiction webzine Futurismic), Paul Rainey (creator of serialised web and print comics Book of Lists and There’s No Time Like The Present), Gary Gibson (novelist – Nova War / Stealing Light) and Dave Bradley (Editor-in-Chief of [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: Guerrilla film-making and fleeing Monsters
Published by December 8th, 2010 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Reality Check. 0 CommentsI’m ready for my close-up: Guerrilla film-making and fleeing Monsters In a Q and A recorded live at this year’s Sci-Fi London Oktoberfest, Alex Fitch talks to British director Gareth Edwards about his genre crossing feature film Monsters, which features a photo journalist escorting a spoilt rich girl across Mexico following an alien invasion. Alex [...]
I’m ready for my close-up: Guerrilla film-making and fleeing Monsters Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (17)Reality Check: Future Publishing? part 1
Published by November 26th, 2010 in Panel Borders and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Future Publishing? part 1 Tom Hunter (Award Administrator for the Arthur C. Clarke Award for Science Fiction Literature) chairs a panel on the future of publishing in the digital age: The publishing industry is coming under assault from all sides. Are Kindles, iPads and smartphones signalling the end of traditional paper publishing? How [...]
Reality Check: Inception / Monsters special effects special
Published by October 9th, 2010 in I'm Ready for my Closeup and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Inception / Monsters special effects special In this edition of the Sci-Fi London Podcast, SFL web editor Chris Patmore guest hosts to bring interviews with two people working and different ends of the special effects budgetary scale. First we speak to Paul Franklin, visual effects supervisor on Chris Nolan’s Inception, Batman Begins and The [...]
Reality Check: Inception / Monsters special effects special [ 52:44 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (354)Reality Check: Charlie Higson, Enemy of The Dead
Published by September 18th, 2010 in Clear Spot, I'm Ready for my Closeup and Reality Check. 0 CommentsReality Check: Charlie Higson, Enemy of The Dead To coincide with the release of his new zombie novel for young adults, The Dead, Alex Fitch talks to comedian turned novelist, Charlie Higson about his survival horror novels set in London, whose locations take in such notable locations as Buckingham Palace, The Tower of London, the [...]
Panel Borders: Making Marvels in the UK part 2
Published by September 16th, 2010 in Panel Borders and Reality Check. 1 CommentPanel Borders: Making Marvels in the UK part 2 Continuing our month long look at British creators who have written and drawn superhero comics, (in a panel recorded in front of a live audience at the London Science-Fiction Film Festival) Alex Fitch concludes his talk with a quartet of Marvel UK luminaries who were responsible [...]