EARTHLING (2010) / Producer
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SYNOPSIS
After a mysterious atmospheric event aboard the international space station, a small group of people wake up to realize that their entire lives have been a lie. Now they have to make a choice. Live amongst men, or try to find a way back home.
TAGLINE
“Everything comes from the water.”
CAST
Rebecca Spence, Peter Greene, William Katt, Jennifer Sipes and Harry Goaz
WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY
Clay Liford
LINKS
www.everythingcomesfromthewater.com
www.imdb.com/title/tt1398999
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AWARDS
2010 BUT Film Festival, Breda Netherlands | Winner Best Feature
2010 Utopiales Film Festival, Nantes France | Winner Best Feature
UPCOMING SCREENINGS
PULL QUOTES
- “Perhaps no film’s more anticipated in [Dallas International Film Festival], though, than Earthling…”
Robert Wilonsky, Dallas Observer - “…destined for cult status.”
Charlie Jane Anders, io9 - “…an intense meditation on humanity.”
Don Simpson, Smells Like Screen Spirit - “…a moving, tense, emotionally driven tale…”
Matt Frederick, The Austinist
PRESS
SciFi Mafia | Review: EARTHLING
Red Carpet Crash | DallasFest After Dark Interview w/ Producer Adam Donaghey & Director Clay Liford
Gordon and the Whale | DALLASIFF Interview w/ Clay Liford
Dallas International Film Festival Serves Up a Tasty Helping of Flicks From the Lone Star State
Slackerwood | SXSW Review: Earthling
Slackerwood | SXSW Spotlight: My Blackberry Ate My Clay Liford Interview
Red Carpet Crash | Interview w/ Director Clay Liford
Smells Like Screen Spirit | SXSW EARTHLING Review
Smells Like Screen Spirit | SXSW FILM DAY 7
Dallas Morning News | Shot in Texas: ‘Earthling’ will play DIFF
io9 | Earthling’s “Space Slug Bad Touch” Is Destined For Cult Status
Slackerwood | SXSW 2010 Day Four: Earthling and Centurion
Gordon and the Whale | Podcast w/ Director Clay Liford
Austinist | SXSW Preview: EARTHLING
eFilmCritic | Interview w/ Director Clay Liford
Texas Monthly | The best emerging Texas filmmakers of 2010
Live for Films | Interview w/ Director Clay Liford
SXSW 2010: An Early Look at Clay Liford’s EARTHLING
NY Times | SXSW Film Line-up (World Premiere Announcement)
Opium | A Man or an Alien? – Interview with Clay Liford
Cyber Monkey Death Squad | We got the juice on “Earthling”!
sci-fi-cool | What is Clay Liford’s EARTHLING?
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS & SPECIAL SCREENINGS
2010 SXSW Film Festival (World Premiere, March 2010)
2010 Comicpalooza
2010 Dallas International Film Festival
2010 Sci-Fi-London Film Festival
2010 Maryland Film Festival
2010 Santa Cruz Film Festival
2010 Outfest
2010 The Modern, Fort Worth, presented by Lone Star Film Society
2010 Vancouver Film Festival
2010 Cinema East, Austin
2010 BUT Film Festival, Breda Netherlands (Winner Best Feature)
2010 Toronto Independent Film Festival
2010 Arizona Underground Film Festival
2010 Philadelphia Film & Music Fest
2010 Hell’s Half Mile Film & Music Festival
2010 AMFest (Moscow & St. Petersburg)
2010 SITGES Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya
2010 Salem Film Festival, Oregon
2010 New Orleans Film Festival
2010 Kaohsiung Film Festival, Taiwan
2010 FANTASTIC PLANET Sydney International Sci-Fi & Fantasy Film Festival
2010 Greater Reading Film Festival
2010 Utopiales Film Festival, Nantes France (Winner Best Feature)
2011 SFF-Rated Athens
2011 reRun Gastropub Theater, Brooklyn (Theatrical Premiere)
2011 Downtown Independent, Los Angeles
2011 Studio Movie Grill CityCentre, Houston
2011 Texas Theatre, Dallas
2011 Mayfair Theatre, Ottowa
2011 Film Bar, Phoenix
2011 FEI Somerville, Boston
2011 Capitol Theater, Olympia, WA
2011 Cinema East, Austin
2011 1up Microcinema, Perth, Western Australia
2011 Fantaspoa Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantástico de Porto Alegre
2011 FilmOut San Diego Film Festival
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[...] EARTHLING will have its Houston premiere at Comicpalooza this weekend! I’ll also be speaking on a low-budget science fiction panel and “handling” Nicholas Brendon! Also, a screening of BLOOD ON THE HIGHWAY (which I play a small part in)!!! [...]