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SAL Deadline & 48HFP: All's Fair in LoveSAL Deadline & 48HFP: All’s Fair in Love

If you are putting the finishing touches on your SF epic, you better hurry. The deadline for the SAL Film Fest is today! Films have been created in the 2008-2009 calendar year and you can find the submission form online.  The films will be shown on October 10th at the Alamo Drafthouse and will compete [Read it all...]

SA Cinema Classic: Funeral March for a MarionetteSA Cinema Classic: Funeral March for a Marionette

Q: What do you do when your favorite toy has been murdered?

A: You bury it!

This macabre short film by Cofa Productions and Eric Fonseca premiered in 2006 at the Cameo Theatre. It was produced, written and directed by Eric Fonseca and was a year in the making. It is set to the classical [Read it all...]

What Can You Remake in 10 Minutes?

Mistah Pete in a scene from the Psycho remake "What The Cock Roach Man Saw"

The San Antonio Local Film Festival issued the challenge: remake the film of your choice as a 10-minute-or-less short. Films had to be shot in 2009 and only Bexar County residents were eligible to compete.

Well, the cinematic gold [Read it all...]

Should We Watch The Mighty Boosh?

The Mighty Boosh 2 on DVD

Several of us here at Missions Unknown are fans of British television, actively watching Dr. Who and Torchwood. We can spin Monty Python quotes and references with the best of them. We listened to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy on the radio and ate up the cheesy [Read it all...]

Looking for the Perfect Orion Slave Girl?

Sorry fellas, this is not Nikki Young of PrimaDonna Productions

Are you making a movie in the San Antonio area? At Missions Unknown, we really hope that it’s a SF, Fantasy or Horror masterpiece and you’re going to send us tickets to the premiere. But regardless the genre and the comp tickets, if you [Read it all...]

SA Cinema Classic: Compose

You may have heard of San Antonio’s FILM CLASSICS PRODUCTIONS. They took their short film Four Minutes Till The End to the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year. They’ve also been showing the longer format Doctor “S” Battles the Sex Crazed Reefer Zombies. Sounds like somebody just mashed up my Netflicks queue!

We’ll have more info [Read it all...]

SA Cinema Classics: Fret and LARP

FRET was Comedia A Go-Go’s entry into the Bloodshots 2008 Filmmaking Frenzy competition. It didn’t win, but that goes to show the quality of the other entries because this movie is a nearly perfect little morsel!

That’s our good friend Brant Bumpers (from The Darkness) in the starring roll and, wait, is that some [Read it all...]

SA Cinema Classic: Mars Needs Bibles

Now presenting yet another classic of San Antonio Science Fiction Cinema. This time it’s the featurette “Mars Needs Bibles” by my good friend Pete “Mistah Pete” Barnstrom.

Mars Needs Bibles

This video has been shown at numerous film festivals from Seattle to Costa Rica. It was directed by Mistah Pete and written by him [Read it all...]

SA’s Classic Civil Defense Film

This classic of San Antonio cinema takes you back to the simpler age of the nuclear family.

What To Do In A Zombie Attack

Created by San Antonio’s Lone Bannana Productions (that’s not my poor spelling, the extra “n” stands for “Nifty”!), written by Paul Scofield and directed by Joey Carrillo this 1950s educational [Read it all...]