SCI-FI-LONDON 8 – Day 6

The festival is now over for another year. We had more films, more Q&As and more talks, and filmed more of all it than ever before. Podcasts are being trimmed and video is being edited, but in the meantime here’s a round-up of what happened on day six.

We started off with our now traditional family screening, this year showing Labyrinth. There was a mild fear that the film might be a bit scary for the kids and the adults they were escorting, but from the smiley faces as everyone left it seems were were worried over nothing. The goody bags containing a copy of the film may also have helped.

At the same time as Labyrinth we started our film programme for the day with documentary Monsterland, and gathered panel members for our third full day of Lab sessions. We started with Artificial life, but not as we know it and finished our Lit stream with a discussion entitled A Woman in a Man’s World? with our well-known panel talking about their experiences and approach to writing in the male dominated field of SF literature. We finished off our Science Stream with a well attended talk on space colonisation, with the panellists on top form.

We then settled in for the home straight, playing 20th Century Boys part 1 before breaking from the anime inspiration for Bill Plympton’s Idiots and Angels. We then launched into the mild craziness of 20th Century Boys part 2 to close the festival. Some technical difficulties delayed the final screening for a short while, but bugs were bashed and the show went on.

The curtain has now fallen on the SCI-FI-LONDON festival for another year, but we are far from done. Next up we have a preview of the live action production of Blood The Last Vampire on June 18th, the day before general release, at the Apollo Piccadily Circus, and we’re showing it in a double bill with the anime. After that comes our second Oktoberfest, happening (surprisingly) in October. Plans aren’t finalised yet but expect all-nighters, premieres and some surprises.

Thanks to all who made it along this year, it’s been bigger and better than ever and a great audience has made it all that much easier. Keep an eye on the site for more general sci-fi news and updates about events that we hear about, talk to us on twitter and keep an eye on our Facebook and Myspace pages. If you’ve shot any photos at the festival then we’d love to have them in our flickr group, where we already have a bunch of piccies showing what went on. Last, but not least, we’ll have video and audio up from the festival on our Dailymotion and podcast pages soon.

Until next time…