The Great Geek Manual

At San Diego Comic-Con International in 2009, a short film by Clare Grant and Rileah Vanderbilt and their Danger Maiden Productions (along with Ariescope Pictures) called Saber won the awards for both Best Action Short and Audience Choice in the 8th Official Star Wars Fan Film Awards competition.

You loved Saber. Now, the long-awaited release of it’s sequel, Saber 2: Return of the Body Wash is finally here! What’s more, it’s everything fans of the first video could have hoped for. Rileah Vanderbilt and Clare Grant returning for more light sabering, more suds, and more comedy. Saber 2 is is directed by Grant’s husband, Seth Green.
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Team 2X is a professional martial arts performance consisting of members with experience in Hollywood films and television. With their unique talent in creating mind blowing fight sequences and GakAttack’s passion for combining Visual FX with Martial Arts action. Jedi Ninjas became the result of this collaboration.

This fifty-five minute French fan film is set inside the Wachowski Brothers’ Matrix trilogy. In follows Kaydara, a human bounty hunter living apart from the humans of Zion. Not only does Kaydara not believe in the prophecy of “The One,” he believes that the prophecy is a threat to the self-awareness of the humans still trapped inside the Matrix. In the film, he hunts Neo, seeking to confront him before he can ruin humanity’s hope for the future.

Source: Kaydara film site via Quiet Earth

“My name is Blinky, and I just want to be your friend!” A well-crafted short film by Ruairi Robinson

Somnolence is a short film based on a feature treatment written by Patrick Kalyn and shot in just two days on a budget of ten thousand dollars. For all its small scale, though, it packs an enormous punch. Its special effects are simply outstanding.

This poetic spot promotes NASA’s recent attempts to educate Americans about its mission through social networks. The beautiful narration is distinctly reminiscent of Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, which I whole-heartedly applaud.

The original idea behind The Nightmare Before Christmas told through poetry, narrated by Christopher Lee.

This is a hugely enjoyable animated short, made all the more enjoyable by the fact that it is almost entirely eye candy.  Created by Simon Prager, Christopher Hempelm, Christian Stadach, and Martin Köhler, this animation was entered for the Steampunk Challenge on cgssocieyt.org.