manifest destiny

Everyone, it is our absolute delight here at Octocon Towers to announce to you The  First National Irish Science Fiction Film Awards!

The film festival, organised by the amazing director and guest  John Vaughan and also known as The Golden Blasters, is a celebration of some of the finest films that the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres have to offer! This year, we'll be announcing one film per week for the short film category, leading up to Octocon, when the films will be shown and the audience will vote to decide the winner.

Our judges this year include Octocon '09 Guest of Honour Mike Carey and writer, artist and film-maker Maura McHugh.

The first film in our list of nominees (and oh my, is it a good list this year!) is a film called Manifest Destiny from the USA (running time 3 minutes).

We asked Mr. Vaughan for a quick tease of the film.

"The title is a clever play on America's policy of expansion in the 19th century, and at three minutes long, it is downright disturbing."

We'll be announcing the next in our line up sometime next week, so keep your eye on the twitter feed and subscribe to the RSS!

We can't wait to see what you all think come October! All of the films have been chosen for their amazingness, so we're sure it'll be a blast! :)