HSHFF recognizes and promotes a variety of films in the "HORROR SCI-FI & THRILLER " genre.
SEPT 20-23 2018
The Hot Springs Central Theater & Performing Arts Center is home to the Hot Springs Arts & Film Institute (HSAFI)
Our mission is to inspire, educate, & promote talented artists & filmmakers around the world. The institute provides opportunities for networ...
Chimera will screen at Festival internacionals de Cinema Fantástic de Sant Cugat
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Maurice'Haeems Intro to Chimera at Fant Bilbao (May 5th, 2018)
The program
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A brilliant but disturbed scientist freezes his children alive, while he races to cure their deadly genetic disease by decoding the DNA of the immortal Turritopsis jellyfish.
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Two wins at 16th Annual Boston International Film Festival:
Indie Spirit Best Picture Award: Maurice Haeems for “CHIMERA”
Indie Spirit Best Cinematography Award David Kruta for “CHIMERA”
The Phoenix Film Festival:
Best Sci-Fi Feature Film
Congratulations to Maurice Haeems, amazing work for his debut feature
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SCI-FI-LONDON: The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film. Next Festival: SFL18. 1-7 May 2018
SCI-FI-LONDON 18 is coming! from scifilondon on Vimeo.
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Loosing your head at Fantasporto?
The team of Chimera Maurice Haeems ready for supper with Jay Sitaram his producer, both having fun in the theatre lobby at Rivoli - Fantasporto's hotspot.
The Chimera team at work on selfies (Maurice Haeems and Jay Sitaram with festival volunteers)...
The Chimera Team celebrating the premiere with Fantasporto Festival directors Mario Dorminsky and Beatriz Pacheco Pereira
Guests and winners at the...
NYC Independent Film Festival is a celebration of the true independent filmmaker, documentaries, short and feature-length films, music videos, and animation. Whether a submission is comedic, dramatic, or something in between, The NYC Indie film Fest is eager to embrace fresh ideas and storytelling.
The festival aims to discover the Artist Filmmaker, showcasing them to the entertainment industry and the NYC public. All NYC Indie screenings take place in the historic center of NYC, Time Square ...
The Phoenix Film Festival has been named one of The 25 Coolest Film Festivals and a Top 50 Worth the Entry Fee by MovieMaker Magazine and has been called the most filmmaker-friendly festival out there. The Phoenix Film Festival is a program of the 501c(3) non-profit Phoenix Film Foundation, started in 2000, and it has quickly become Arizona's Largest Film Festival.
"The Phoenix Film Festival is first and foremost a filmmaker's festival. It is a privilege for us to screen your...
The Boston International Film Festival has accepted "CHIMERA" to be screened at this year’s film festival (2018). The film festival will be held from April 12th through April 16th at the Regal Fenway Theater, AMC, Kendall Square Cinema and Broadway Pictures Entertainment Studio here in Boston, Massachusetts.
The festival’s goal is to encourage and support the work of worldwide independent filmmakers and to promote their products as an art concept and as a valu...
ETHICS AND CINEMA FORUM at FANTASPORTO 2018
The film festival returns to Porto and to the Rivoli Theater in discovering the most modern and recent films from around the world, after the INTERNATIONAL RECOGNITION of the last years that places the FANTASPORTO BETWEEN THE BEST OF THE WORLD.
The " Grand Cinema of the World " is the generic theme of the 38th edition, whose has already been announced .
As sub-theme we will have "...
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MoviesovertheRainbow.com [Ali Naro]
Pophorror.com [Brandon Long]
Search my Trash [Mike Haberfelner]
SpoilerFreeMovieSleuth.com
TG Geeks [Ben Ragunton]
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Bruno Chatelin curator of the Best for Fests commented.
"My appreciation for the genre dates back to my work as a distributor in the nineties, releasing two of Wes Craven’s films, as well as Joel Schumacher's Flatliners, Chuck Russel's The Blog, Mike Nicholl's Wolf, Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein and the acclaimed Independence Day. Now I am proud to add Chimera to this brilliant lineage of horror/sci-fi mas...
Special Advance Screening of the Anticipated Sci-Fi Thriller “Chimera” at Fantasporto 2018
FilmFestivals.com is pleased to announce a Special Advance Screening of one of the year’s most anticipated indie features, the sci-fi thriller Chimera at the 2018 edition of the Fantasporto International Film Festival. This sophisticated film is helmed by first-time writer-director Maurice Haeems and is produced by Jay Sitaram. The movie stars Emmy-nominee Henry Ian C...
"so professional, so stylized, so futuristic that it’s on par with the most popular movies from Ridley Scott. Writer, director and producer Maurice Haeems and cinematographer David Kruta should be proud of themselves for this achievement.
Chimera is going to be one of thee science fiction titles to watch for in 2018, and it’s going to be a serious contender for numerous awards whether it hits the film festival circuit or goes straight-to-DVD. It’s a beast. A cr...
“Chimera” is part sci-fi, part thriller, part horror, and all outstanding!
"From the first few minutes of this film I immediately realized that I was in store for something entirely different.
It doesn’t play like your typical monster horror movie, rather it shows us the horror of humanity and exposes some of our darker natures and obsessions, as well as highly compromised morality, all in the name of science.
Chimera is a very intelligent film, and unlike...
Director Biography
Maurice has a Bachelor’s degree from the VJTI School of Engineering of the University of Mumbai and an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has enjoyed successful careers in mechanical/fluid engineering, investment banking, and software entrepreneurship.
Maurice has studied Filmmaking, Screenwriting and the Entertainment Business at the New York Film Academy (NYFA) and at the University of California Los Angel...
A brilliant but disturbed scientist decides to freeze his children alive, while he races against time to cure their deadly genetic disease by unlocking the secret of immortality encoded within the DNA of the Turritopsis jellyfish.
SYNOPSIS
Imagine a world without aging, injury, disease or death. Quint’s obsesson with this utopian dream pushes him to the edge of his sanity.
Rather than risk losing his dying children, Quint decides to preserve them in a cryonic ametabol...
MAURICE HAEEMS
WRITER, DIRECTOR
JAY SITARAM
PRODUCER
FRANCO SAMA
CONSULTING PRODUCER
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GENRE
Science Fiction / Thriller
LOGLINE
A brilliant but disturbed scientist decides to freeze his children alive, while he races against time to cure their deadly genetic disease by unlocking the secret of immortality encoded within the DNA of the Turritopsis jellyfish.
SYNOPSIS
Imagine a world without aging, injury, disease or death. Quint’s obsesson with this utopian dream pushes him to the edge of his sanity.
Rather than risk losing his dying children, Quint decides to...
