2026 WINNERS will be announced at Origins Game Fair 2026 on Saturday, June 20.
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- BEST SCI-FI FILM –
- BEST FANTASY FILM –

12 Sided Die Season 2
Gaming Feature – 1 hr
Saturday- Noon
A romantic comedy web-series about a group of friends that play a fictionalized Dungeons & Dragons type game directed by Tim Russ (Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager) with Special Guest Stars Andrew Robinson (Garak from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) and Kitty Swink (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine).

Consciousness and Science
Documentary – 1.5 hrs
Friday- Noon
When filmmaker Jacques-Hervé Fichet loses his best friend to a sudden heart attack, a series of chance encounters draw him into one of humanity’s greatest enigmas: the origin of consciousness.
Alongside Élisabeth Loesch, he travels from intimate testimonies of near death experiences, then meets with some of the world’s most brilliant minds, including Nobel Prize-winning physicist Roger Penrose, neurologists Steven Laureys and Charlotte Martial, and psychiatrist Christophe Fauré.
Blending science, philosophy, and human emotion, this documentary is both an investigation and an inner journey, searching for answers to the question: does consciousness come from the brain… or beyond?

Evenly Matched
Gaming Documentary Short – 15min
Friday – 4:00 PM
A documentary short film that explores the culture and community of competitive Yu-Gi-Oh!, a trading card game. It explores through the perspective of seven people who have never played before, being thrown into an overly complicated and confusing card game. What is it like to learn something new and how is community important to how learn new skills?

Friday Night Flop
Gaming Short – 15 min
Saturday- 2:00 PM
A mother tries desperately to reconnect with her estranged daughter.

If You Are Reading This
Fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror – 10 min
Saturday- 4:00 PM
Cassandra travels to Philadelphia in search of her brother, but instead finds a phylactery she must destroy. Cosmic horror descends upon her as her mission is impeded by a crawling force dragging her into madness. As she begins to understand what is happening, she becomes a victim of the same celestial force that made her brother vanish. Trapped with nowhere to go, she is nevertheless on the path to solving the mystery.

Rewind
Gaming Feature – 2 hrs
Friday- 2:00 PM
A group of online gamers becomes popular on YouTube, but problems in their personal lives grow increasingly harder to ignore.

Polly the Poorly Rendered Parrot
Sci-Fi/Comedy – 16 min
Saturday- 2:00 PM
A burnout creative must come to the aid of his ex-classmate, who’s being hunted by the ugly VFX Parrot from their calamitous senior thesis film.

Round the Corner
Sci-Fi – 4 min
Saturday- 2:00 PM
Rockin’ the House!
In this series pilot, even on the quietest streets, one can find a certain level of excitement, “Round the Corner”. A humorous take on dealing with a zombie pandemic and what 2 competing homeowners go through in their daily lives, sometimes involving “cats” and a “chef” son.

Snow Day!
Fantasy/Animated – 10 min
Saturday- Noon
When a spunky eight (and a half) year old, is moved across the country, homesick, she does what any other little girl would think to do: summon an almighty weather changing Demon to make it snow for her.
The Demon thinks her idea is laughable however, and contests her wish. Will she get her Snow Day?

Star-Crossed
Sci-Fi – 14 min
Saturday- 4:00 PM
A beautiful young woman craving connection risks revealing her true nature—only to fall for the wrong man, igniting a night of passion, poor decisions, and consequences you can’t sweep under a rug.

Eye of the Beholder: the Art of Dungeons & Dragons
1 hr 40 min
Friday- 7:00 PM
A documentary film that explores the artwork of Dungeons & Dragons.

American Cokehound
Sci-Fi Short – 7 min
Saturday- 4:00 PM
“After taking drugs from another dimension, a substance-abusing, PTSD-stricken ex-soldier is transported to another dimension where he must fight an alien warlord to escape.” (IMDB)

Baby Churn
Sci-Fi – 27 min
Saturday- 4:00 PM
What if you could do it all over again, knowing what you know now? Welcome to the world of Baby Churn, where Rewind technology allows people to send their consciousness to the past. The only problem is: Things can never be exactly as they once were. Dr. Alvarez is one such individual who found out the hard way, and he has since dedicated lifetimes to genetic engineering, hoping that he may one day be reunited with his son.

Dungeon of Deceit
Fantasy/Gaming – 15 min
Saturday- 2:00 PM
A pre-teen boy who loses himself in video games to escape his parents’ conflict is unexpectedly thrust into the world of an adventure game he’s playing.

Illuminagents: Bermuda Short
Sci-Fi Short – 5.5 min
Saturday- 4:00 PM
From the web series Illuminagents we present an episode from Season 3.
An old friend of Agent Jones asks for his help when she goes on the run.

Fake News Movie
Sci-Fi – 10 min
Saturday- 2:00 PM
Based on SiriusXM’s “Not From Space.” While channel surfing you stumble upon a cable news broadcast with live coverage of alien contact but it’s unclear whether one of the channel’s sponsors is involved. Starring Tom Mustin, Emmy-winning news anchor ABC-7 Denver.

Lost in Time
Sci-Fi Feature – 1.5 hrs
Friday- 4:00 PM
Alexa Morden stars as Leda Calder, a woman who moves between what appear to be different worlds, and different times, as she works to piece together the truth behind her fragmented memories, in this science fiction mind-bender from Canadian director Henry Colin. Holly Stevens co-stars as Leda’s friend Jane, who may hide the key to the mystery of Leda’s identity.

Mindworks Nuclei- Book 1
Animation/Sci-Fi- 4 min
Saturday- Noon
A young adult (Brian) is visited by his brother, Jeremy, who needs a place to stay as he settles into his new city. The two polar opposite personalities begin to clash as Jeremy’s presence poses a threat to Brian’s way of life. Brian’s uptight personality and unreasonable living standards rub off on Jeremy, creating an incredible amount of tension. Bad blood, stemming from a traumatic past event reveals the shocking truth of the brothers’ current situations, as Brian struggles to differentiate between reality and his worst nightmares.

Strange Orbits
Sci-Fi Short- 4.5 min
Saturday- 4:00 PM
A beautiful young woman craving connection risks revealing her true nature—only to fall for the wrong man, igniting a night of passion, poor decisions, and consequences you can’t sweep under a rug.

Thera-P
Sci-Fi Short- 15.75 min
Saturday- 2:00 PM
Simon Ball, an unwitting husband-in-training, must defeat the biggest threat to his relationship so far, a marriage counselling therapy android that threatens to expose his romantic shortcomings… and take his partner.

TPK
Animated Short 3.5 min
Saturday- Noon
For our group of adventurers, this quest to subjugate goblins will be their last.

Igniting the Spark, the Story of Magic: The Gathering
Animated Short 2 Hours
Saturday- 7:00 PM
A documentary film that traces the origins of Magic: the Gathering from its earliest days through its sale to Hasbro, and on into the future.