"Mars" animated sci-fi adventure to kick off Modern Film Fest 2011
The animated feature film, "Mars" will kick off this year's Modern Film Fest, screening at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept, 30. The movie had its world premiere at the prestigious South by Southwest Film Festival and is written and directed by Geoff Marslett. It's a story about the discovery of life on Mars which places a robotic expedition and a manned mission in a race to the Red Planet. On the way we discover that love - biological, spiritual, and even mechanical - can flourish in all kinds of ways.
Geoff Marslett is a native Texan who took a circuitous path to filmmaking, studying mathematics, philosophy, art, science, and languages at St. John’s College (1996) before returning to Texas to pursue an MFA in filmmaking at UT (2001). In addition to making films, Geoff teaches in the RTF Department at the University of Texas at Austin.
He has directed fourteen short films and a half dozen segments for other directors’ television and film programs, and been fortunate enough to collaborate with a wide variety of artists, filmmakers, and musicians along the way. His critically acclaimed "Monkey vs. Robot" screened at over 25 festivals worldwide, was distributed theatrically, and ultimately broadcast on HBO, PBS, and Univision. His most recent short, "Bubblecraft," premiered in 2006 and served as a laboratory for developing his own unique animation process and style. Geoff wrote software specifically for animating this film and later co-wrote an expanded version for his next project, MARS.
"Mars" is a feature length animated, sci-fi, romantic comedy which he completed in January 2010. Geoff was the writer, co-producer, director, and character animator on "Mars"—which proved by far the most complex artistic effort he has undertaken and easily the one he is most proud of. Luckily, Geoff works well with others.
In 2009 Geoff was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Film” by Filmmaker Magazine. His teaching was also recognized in 2009 when he was awarded the University of Texas’ Board of Regents’ Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award.
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