Impressive Full Trailer for ‘Escape Attempt’ – A Cerebral Sci-Fi Short

Impressive Full Trailer for ‘Escape Attempt’ – A Cerebral Sci-Fi Short

by Alex Billington
July 17, 2024
Source: Vimeo

“We’re here to help them survive. We’re here to free them.” Aggressive has revealed an official trailer for an indie sci-fi short film creation called Escape Attempt, from filmmakers Dan Shapiro & Alex Topaller. This is a full-on, 30 minute hard sci-fi film, which is also being pitched a series pilot. It already premiered at the 2023 Sitges Film Festival last year and won a Navigator Pirx Award for Best Sci-Fi Film at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. No idea when it will be out in full to watch, but it’s showing at the Fantasia Film Fest in Montreal next this summer. A soldier escapes from a WWII concentration camp. Once he is out, he finds himself on an unknown planet in an unknown future controlled by a homicidal alien race. Staring Andrzej Chyra, Anna Burnett, Ieuan Coombs, and Piotr Witkowski. This looks incredible! Such impressive sleek designs of the spacecraft, such clean VFX and world-building. I’m curious what the story is leading to, so many teases in this trailer. It is absolutely worth a look – now I can’t wait to see the full 30-minute short.

Here’s the official trailer for Dan Shapiro & Alex Topaller’s short film Escape Attempt, direct from Vimeo:

A soldier escaping a WWII concentration camp finds himself on an unknown planet in a distant future only to discover a frozen gulag controlled by a brutal alien race. Escape Attempt is a short film co-directed by filmmakers Dan Shapiro & Alex Topaller, directors of other short films and music videos previously before this. The screenplay is written by Christina Lazaridi, Dan Shapiro, and Alex Topaller, from a story by Viktor Topaller. Based on a 1962 novel by the brothers Arkadiy Strugatskiy & Boris Strugatskiy. Produced by Lukasz Tomasz Koltunowicz. Made by the design studio Aggressive based in NYC. The short first premiered at the 2023 Sitges Film Festival, and it also won the Navigator Pirx Award for Best Sci-Fi Film at the Tallinn Black Night Film Festival, as well as Best Sci-Fi & Grand Prize awards at FilmQuest Film Festival. It will next show at the International Science-Fiction Short Film Showcase 2024 at Fantasia in Montreal. No final release date it set yet – stay tuned for updates. For more info, visit the Aggressive site. Who’s down for this?

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