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48 Hour Film: Sign Trainer

Teams of filmmakers recently spent a long weekend creating short films as part of the national 48 Hour Film Project competition. Presented here is the short film Sign Trainer directed and animated by Joey Carillo of Lone Bannana Productions with assitance from Nikki Young, Mistah Pete, Don Rios, and Paul Vaughn.

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What we're reading: July 2010

Every newspaper, magazine and blog seems to be running a summer reading list right about now. So who needs another one? You do, friends. How many, we ask, are going to be as chock-full of geeky and creepy goodness as ours?

John Picacio

“Plus or Minus” by James Patrick Kelly

Just finished reading a short story by Nebula [Read it all...]

Mission: What's Your Favorite 'Weird Western'?

The new Jonah Hex movie shoots up the big screen this weekend and that got us thinking about one of our favorite SF subgenres…the Weird Western. San Antonio and South Texas have borne witness to hundreds of years of western weirdness so we decided to ask about your favorite Weird Western: book, movie, comic whatever. We [Read it all...]

Best SF Album Art of the Decade

Your humble missionaries don’t just love SF and Fantasy…we love music too. And we especially love it when these two worlds collide. We’ve run articles before about our favorite SF album cover art and turned up many of the usual suspects: Iron Maiden, Yes, Hawkwind, Molly Hatchet. But these albums all came out years…nay, decades…ago. [Read it all...]

What We're Reading: May 2010

While all of us at Missions Unknown like different aspects of SF, one thing we all agree on is that we love to read. Thomas Jefferson famously said, ”I cannot live without books.” While we may not be as extreme as our favorite founding father, books are an integral part of our psyche. That said, here [Read it all...]

Scrap the Remakes and Film These Books Instead

We saw an article on the brilliant io9 site with the provocative title Don’t Remake These 21 Movies, Film These Books Instead! This piece really hit home for us at Missions Unknown. We love great SF movies almost as much as we love great SF literature. Almost. You really can’t help being embarrassed as a [Read it all...]

San Antonio's Best SF/F of 2009

We started Missions Unknown on May 24th, 2009, looking to delve into the SF/F/H happenings in the Alamo City. Frankly, we’ve been amazed at some of the killer things we’ve seen this year. Once again we weigh in with the best of San Antonio’s SF scene and we even solicited some other opinions as well. [Read it all...]

Your Most Memorable SF/F Album Covers

When we saw on SF Signal that they were asking for your favorite SF/Fantasy book covers we knew we had to chime in with our picks. But then we realized that some of our favorite SF/F artists also did album covers and we realized we had to go there too. Today we present our picks [Read it all...]

SA48HR: Voodoo Daddy

Here’s Team Barnstrom’s entry into the San Antonio 48-Hour Film Experience.

Mistah Pete notes:

Done for the San Antonio 48 Hour Film Experience, December 4, 5, and 6. This is very slightly different from the version turned in just under the wire on Sunday night. Some sound jiggering and effects, plus some tweaks on the titles.

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SA48HR Film Experience Tonight at the Bijou

San Antonio filmmakers took part in the 2009 SA48HR Film Experience over the weekend and you can see the results tonight at the Santikos Bijou theater. The showing is at 7:00, December 8th.

Madame Arielle: Voodoo Artiste – For all your Voodoo needs.

The SA48HR started on Friday with a Kick-Off event at the El Tropicano Hotel [Read it all...]