{"id":15540,"date":"2024-03-16T18:11:08","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/blog\/asternauts-award-winning-sci-fi-comedy-short-film-en\/"},"modified":"2024-03-16T18:11:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T18:11:08","slug":"asternauts-award-winning-sci-fi-comedy-short-film-en","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/featured\/asternauts-award-winning-sci-fi-comedy-short-film-en\/","title":{"rendered":"ASTERNAUTS &#8211; Award-winning Sci Fi Comedy Short Film [EN]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aYBF2v0pbCM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Watch without hard-coded subtitles here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bj5CJZpfOcU<\/p>\n<p>Winner Best Film @ Columbia Film Festival, NY<br \/>\nWinner Best Cinematography @ HollyShorts Film Festival<br \/>\nWinner Best Screenplay @ Porto7 Int&#8217;l Short Film Festival<br \/>\nWinner Audience Award @ Cort\u00f3polis Int&#8217;l Short Film Festival<br \/>\nWinner Jury Prize for Excellence @ Boston Sci-Fi Film Fest<br \/>\nWinner Best Sci-Fi\/Horror Audience Award @ Love Your Shorts Film Festival<br \/>\nOfficial Selection @ Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner, SXSW, Heartland Film Festival, DC Shorts, LA Femmes, Jerry Goldsmith Awards, Huesca Film Festival, Malta Film Festival, Hofer Filmtage, Molodist Film Festival, Bangkok Film Festival, Kurzfilmfestival Landshut, BuSho Budapest, Cannes  Short Film Corner, and more (over 50 film festivals worldwide)<\/p>\n<p>Life is pretty dull for small-town farmer Earl McKnutt and his childlike brother Joel: Wake up, feed the cows, and sit on the porch until it&#8217;s time to turn in. That is until one night a mysterious object from outer space crash-lands in their pasture killing their best bull and milking cow\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A MovieBrats &#038; Sandbox Hero production<br \/>\nDirected by Marta Masferrer<br \/>\nWritten by Raven Burnett<br \/>\nProduced by Alexander Weimer, Esther Friedrich, Marta Masferrer<br \/>\nCast: Zenon Zeleniuch, Wray Crawford, Melissa D. Brown, Tina Balthazar<br \/>\nCinematography: Xiaosu Han &#038; Andreas Thalhammer<br \/>\nProduction Design: Marcus LaPorte<br \/>\nFilm Editing by Marta Masferrer<br \/>\nMusic by: Adrian Sieber<br \/>\nExecutive Producer: Marianne Walzer<br \/>\nCo-Producers: Paul Knaus, Chelsea Kujawa<\/p>\n<h3>More info on ASTERNAUTS &#8211; Award-winning Sci Fi Comedy Short Film [EN]<\/h3>\n<div class=\"ss-local-rss\"><\/ul> <\/div>&#038;format=rss&#8221; feeds=&#8221;5&#8243;]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch without hard-coded subtitles here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bj5CJZpfOcU Winner Best Film @ Columbia Film Festival, NY Winner Best Cinematography @ HollyShorts Film Festival Winner Best Screenplay @ Porto7 Int&#8217;l Short Film Festival Winner Audience Award @ Cort\u00f3polis Int&#8217;l Short Film Festival Winner Jury Prize for Excellence @ Boston Sci-Fi Film Fest Winner Best Sci-Fi\/Horror Audience Award @ [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/aYBF2v0pbCM.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.austinshortfilm.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}