Austin Lift-Off Film Festival 2025
Network Round Features
Monday, 28th April - Sunday, 4th May
1. Asker Zone
Director/Writer/Producer: Öystein Thorsen
Producer: Sølvi Bronse Goldmann
Country of Origin: Sweden
Synopsis: A week has passed since the people in the rural village Asker has observed a spaceship beyond the atmosphere. When PELÉ (27) realizes that the entire community is trapped behind an invisible barrier, he decides to look for a way out.
2. Forgotten Champions
Director/Producer: Geoff Sadow
Writer: Sue Hovey
Producer: Jon Newman
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: Forgotten Champions is the story of the 1981-82 Rutgers women’s basketball team, an underdog squad that shocked the powerful Texas Longhorns to win the AIAW national championship and punctuated a season of upheaval in the sport. It is the story of how Theresa Grentz, the All-American center who led tiny Immaculata College to three straight national titles from 1972-74, built Rutgers into a contender after becoming the nation’s first full-time collegiate women’s basketball coach in 1976, at age 24.
3. Letter By Letter
Director/Writer: Federico Napoleone
Producer: Ben Szemerenyi
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: When the murder of a foreign visitor leads to the discovery of a cryptic note at the scene, Detective Eric Larson and Captain Frank Revon are tasked with solving the case. As time presses, their investigation intensifies with more mysterious deaths springing up across the city. Cornered and challenged, Eric must use his vast knowledge of history and ciphers to crack the enigma and unmask the assailants.
4. NAFADA - AN AUDIO UPRISING
Director: Reginald S. Tiessen
Writers: Reginald Tiessen, Elizabeth Graham
Producers:Elizabeth Graham,J. Frysie,Soultana
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: What began as a social justice advocacy project between female hip-hop artists from the MENA region and musicians of industrial, dark-wave electro music from the West, soon became a fight for relevance in a world determined to question the intention of artists, instead of the intention of art itself.
5. I Voted
Director: Tyler Mann
Writers: Rachel DeRouen, Tyler Mann
Producers: Kristina Mann, Rachel DeRouen, Tyler Mann
Country of Origin: United States
Synopsis: A polling location goes under lockdown during a tense presidential election, forever changing the lives of a group of strangers as they inevitably do what most do not recommend...talk politics.
