We’d like to give a special thanks again to the Sunscreen Film Festival West for including HELIO as a last-minute addition to this year’s festival. SSFFW had a great venue down in Hermosa Beach, tons of talented filmmakers, and an awesome Q + A with the directors and talent from yesterday’s block of films. Keep an eye out for more upcoming HELIO screenings!
Check out Writer/Director Teddy Cecil’s first radio interview for HELIO on the Unreal Radio Podcast! Click here to listen.
Come to a HELIO screening this weekend at one of two LA-based festivals!
First up is the Sunscreen Film Festival West in Hermosa Beach, CA. HELIO will be showing this Friday, 10/2 @ 5 PM. Purchase your tickets here!
Kurt Braun, the Production Designer on HELIO, just took home the Platinum Award for Best Production Design at the Cinerockom International Film Festival! Congrats, Kurt! Well-deserved.
Colorado here we come! The one and only Mile High Horror Film Festival will be screening HELIO at Colorado’s prestigious Alamo Drafthouse Cinema this Saturday! Get tickets here.
LA-based cast, crew, friends and family – HELIO screens at the renowned Burbank International Film Festival this Saturday, 9/12 @ 10:30 PM.
Click here to purchase tickets now!
After a successful showing across the pond at the Cambridge Film Festival, HELIO was featured in the “Take One” film blog: “HELIO… is an impressive and thrilling look into a dystopian future…”
Check out the full review by Katrina Smith here!
HELIO wins Best Sci Fi Live Action Short Film at the 2015 Fantasmagorical Film Festival! Thanks to all involved and congrats to our cast and crew!
Click here to see all the winners.
If you happen to be up in New England this weekend, be sure to check out HELIO at the Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont. Our film screen on Friday night. Get your tickets now.
HELIO will be playing at the iconic Chinese Theatre in Hollywood this Sunday! Come check it out at 7:30pm (August 16th) if you can. It will be a part of the Hollyshorts Sci-Fi block – congrats to all involved!
HELIO took home BEST SHORT FILM at the inaugural Hollywood North Film Festival!! Congrats to all cast and crew! #HelioTheFilm #HNFF15
HELIO will be playing in downtown LA tonight at the closing short film block of the Downtown Film Festival L.A., starting at 7:00pm. The location is the Regent Theater: 448 S. Main St., Los Angeles, CA 90013. If you can’t make it, don’t worry – Helio will be playing in more LA-based festivals this summer!
The Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival (MNFF) was formed to support, promote and exhibit the dynamic and imaginative efforts of new filmmakers. This year’s festival runs August 27-30.
A big thank you to the MNFF selection committee! Stay tuned for more updates.
The Super Villain Network recently sat down with HELIO Writer/Director Teddy Cecil to discuss the project’s inception, as well as challenges faced throughout the ambitious production. Check out the article here!
Exciting news, guys! Moviemaker Magazine just gave a shout-out to HELIO in their post on the FilmQuest Festival experience!!! Check out the excerpt below:
“The variety, creativity and production quality of the films impressed beyond my expectations and helped banish the notion that genre events are somehow less serious than traditional film festivals. Whether your thing is mind-warping horror (The House at the End of Time), time-travel comedy (“One-Minute Time Machine”) or dystopian sci-fi (“Helio”), there was much to take seriously.” #HelioTheFilm #FilmQuest #MovieMaker
ArtLoft Miami’s exclusive sneak-peek into the making of HELIO, which recently aired on PBS, has finally arrived online! Let us know what you think, and be sure to share with friends and family! #HelioTheFilm #HelioOnArtLoft
We couldn’t be more excited for the Sunderland Shorts Film Festival and the Mykonos Biennale! We’re honored to be a part of both of them… Check out the festival websites for more information if you’re in the area!
Who’s gonna be in San Antonio at the beginning of August? ‘Cause HELIO will be! Congrats to the entire cast and crew on being accepted to the San Antonio Film Festival!
Check out what Film Pulse had to say about HELIO at FilmQuest:
“Teddy Cecil’s “Helio” is an ambitious dystopian tale about one man who seizes an opportunity to find out just what lies beyond the city limits. It features plenty of great visual effects, quite noteworthy because of its low budget, well paced action sequences and an engaging story that will make you want to see reach its unexpected conclusion.”
