Fantasporto

February 24th, 9:15 PM - Chimera Small auditorium

The filmmakers are in town today to introduce the movie tonight and they brought T shirts and caps and a great bottle of Porto which will be drawn in a raffle at today's screening. 

Maurice Haeems (left) and Jay Sitaram (producer)

The story:

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.

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 ametabolic state while he researches genetic modifications that would induce in them the regenerative abilities of the “immortal” Turritopsis jellyfish.

Quint’s desperate need for embryonic stem cells sets him on a collision course with Masterson, a shadowy figure, whose bizarre motives trigger a chain of events with far-reaching consequences.