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'''SCI-FI-LONDON''' ('''The London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film''', SFL), is a [[United Kingdom|UK]]-based film festival, dedicated to the [[science fiction]] and fantasy genres, which began in 2002.


'''Sci-Fi-London''' (stylised as '''SCI-FI-LONDON'''), also known as the '''London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film''' or simply '''SFL''', is an annual United Kingdom–based film festival dedicated to the [[science fiction]] and fantasy genres.<ref>{{Cite web|title=London Sci-Fi Film Festival|url=https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0001205/2023/1|website=[[IMDb]]}}</ref> Originally founded in 2002, it was held at the Stratford Picturehouse in [[London]] from 2008–2022, and in 2023 will be in central London at Prince Charles Cinema, the Picturehouse Central, the Garden Cinema and Rich Mix.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The SFL Archive|url=https://sci-fi-london.com/archive/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=Sci-Fi-London}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Sci-Fi-London: Genre film festival returns with new central London locations |url=https://www.scifinow.co.uk/news/sci-fi-london-genre-film-festival-returns-with-new-central-london-locations/|access-date=2023-10-02|website=SciFiNow |first1=Rachael |last1=Harper |date=May 16, 2023 }}</ref>
==About the festival==
Designed to be a festival that “takes a serious look at [[sci-fi]] and fantasy, bringing new, classic and rare movies from around the world to the UK”, Sci-Fi-London annually screens world and UK Premieres, seminal cult classics, as well as documentaries, debates and talks.


==Arthur C. Clarke Award==
Short films are also an important part of the festival programme, screening in front of every movie shown, as well as together in the Blink Of An Eye short film programme. Over its history Sci-Fi-London has also held a number of Short Film competitions, and in 2008 launched the '''Sci-Fi-London 48hr Film Challenge''', in order to encourage filmmakers to create sci-fi short films over a very short period of time.
{{main|Arthur C. Clarke Award}}
Sci-Fi-London hosts the awards ceremony for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2023 Clarke Award Shortlist|url=https://locusmag.com/2023/06/2023-clarke-award-shortlist/|access-date=2023-10-02|website=Locus Mag |date= June 7, 2023 }}</ref> It is awarded to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during a calendar year, chosen by jury.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Arthur C. Clarke Award|url=http://clarkeaward.com/|access-date=2021-09-08|website=The Arthur C. Clarke Award|language=en}}</ref>


==References==
In 2006 the festival became the official home of '''The [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]]''', the most prestigious award for [[science fiction]] literature in [[United Kingdom|Britain]], and recognised as one of the most prestigious [[science fiction awards]] in the world.
{{Reflist}}

Since its inception, the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival has also been one of the few places in the [[UK]] to consistently screen "All-Nighters" — film marathons which run throughout the night. These have focused on [[anime]], [[Horror film|horror]], [[Alien (franchise)|Alien]], and [[The Matrix|Matrix]] films as well as episodes of the cult American TV series: [[Mystery Science Theatre 3000]].

The Festival is reliant mostly on a large and varied team of Volunteers, who give up their time and expertise for free, in aid of the various aspects of the running of the Festival. These are mostly recruited in the months leading up to the Festival, through the Festival's website.

==Festival dates and location==

In its first four years (2002–2005), the Festival resided mainly at the '''Curzon Soho''' Cinema on [[Shaftesbury Avenue]] (Central [[London]]).

The Festival then resided primarily at the '''Apollo Piccadilly Circus''' on Lower [[Regent Street]] (also Central London), from its fifth year through to its eleventh (2006–2012).

At the same time the festival also moved from screenings in '''late January/early February''', to a slot in '''late April/early May''' (usually the May Bank Holiday Weekend), running over a longer, 5-day period.

Since October 2012, the festival has moved to its current location, at the '''Stratford Picturehouse''', running a full 7-day programme.

Since 2008 Sci-Fi-London has also held a second festival in October, called Oktoberfest. This normally takes the form of a shorter festival, held at venues including the Apollo Piccadilly Circus, the Stratford Picturehouse, the [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich]] and the [[Royal Society]].

==The Arthur C. Clarke Award==
{{main article|Arthur C. Clarke Award}}
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is awarded every year to the best [[science fiction]] novel which received its first [[United Kingdom|British]] publication during the previous calendar year. The Award is chosen by Jury.

The Award was set up in 1986 and the first winner was announced in 1987. In 2006 '''Sci-Fi-London''' hosted the Awards ceremony for the first time.

==Festival awards==

As well as hosting the [[Arthur C. Clarke Award]], Sci-Fi-London also selects its own recipients for a '''Best Short Film''' Award, selected from the short films screened as part of the festival programme, and '''Best Feature Film'''.

Since 2003, there has also been an '''Audience Award''' for the Best Short Film screened, voted for by the festival audience.

{| class="wikitable" width="475"
|+'''Best Feature Film'''
|-
!width="50"|2002
|''[[Avalon (2001 film)|Avalon]]'' - Dir: [[Mamoru Oshii]]
|-
! 2003
| ''Ever Since The World Ended'' – Dirs: Calum Grant and Josh Litle
|-
! 2004
| ''[[Robot Stories]]'' – Dir: [[Greg Pak]]
|-
! 2005
| ''[[Primer (film)|Primer]]'' – Dir: [[Shane Carruth]]
|-
! 2006
| ''[[Subject Two]]'' – Dir: Philip Chidel
|-
! 2007-10
| (Not Awarded)
|-
! 2011
| ''Pig'' – Dir: Henry Barrial
|}

{| class="wikitable" width="475"
|+'''Best Short Film'''
|-
!width="50"|2002
| ''[[Inferno (2001 film)|Inferno]]'' – Dir: [[Paul Kousoulides]]
|-
! 2003
| ''The Town Of The One-Handed People'' – Dir: Heli Ellis
|-
! 2004
| ''Chaingangs'' – Dir: Scott Mann
|-
! 2005
| ''La Vie d’un Chien'' – Dir: John Harden
|-
! 2006
| ''X'' – Dir: Raphael Wahl
|-
! 2007
| ''The Angel'' - Dir: Paul Hough
|-
! 2008
| ''Ascension'' - Dir: Stephen Irwin
|-
! 2009
| ''Well Founded Concerns'' - Dir: Tim Cawley
|-
! 2010
| ''Mister Green'' - Dir: [[Greg Pak]]
|-
! 2011
| ''Brutal Relax'' - Dir: David Muñoz and Adrián Cardona
|}

{| class="wikitable" width="475"
|+'''Audience Award for Best Short Film'''
|-
!width="50"|2002
| (Not Held)
|-
! 2003
| ''The Cat With Hands'' – Dir: Robert Morgan
|-
! 2004
| ''Annie & Boo'' – Dir: Johannes Weiland
|-
! 2005
| ''Netherbeast Of Berm-Tech Industries'' – Dir: Dean Ronalds
|-
! 2006
| ''Plastic'' – Dir: Mark Davis
|-
! 2007
| ''Coming To Town'' - Dir: Carles Torrens
|-
! 2008
| ''Final Journey'' - Dir: Lars Zimmermann
|-
! 2009
| ''The Day The Robots Woke Up'' - Dir: Ed Hartwell
|-
! 2010
| ''Schizofredric'' - Dir: Andy Poyiadgi
|-
! 2011
| ''The Interview'' - Dir: Michelle Steffes
|}

==The Douglas Adams Memorial Debate==

From 2002 to 2007, and in tribute to "a master storyteller and man of great vision and imagination", the Sci-Fi-London Film Festival hosted the annual [[Douglas Adams]] Memorial Debates. These consisted of a lively panel discussion, made up of critics, authors, experts and academics, debating questions raised where science fiction meets science fact.

{| class="wikitable"
|+'''Debate Topics'''
|-
!width="50"|2002
|Why is the book always better than the movie? Is it?
|-
! 2003
|Does science fiction predict the future?
|-
! 2004
|How much does sex drive technology?
|-
! 2005
|(Not Held)
|-
! 2006
|The battle for the future: who controls the future controls the present?
|-
! 2007
|From Star Wars to the Battle of Ideas, Is science fiction good for public debate?
|}

==48hr Film Challenge==

With the aim of promoting Film-making, as well as Film-watching, in 2008 '''SCI-FI-LONDON''' launched its first '''48 Hour Film Challenge'''.

Registered Teams are given a random '''Title''', '''Prop/Action''', and a line of '''Dialogue''', and two days (a weekend) in which to produce a 3 to 5 minute Short Film.

In 2008 there were 137 registrants, 87 teams taking part, 70 films returned, and over 1,200 people involved. That year the competition was won by a team featuring director [[Gareth Edwards (director)|Gareth Edwards]], who used his entry as a stepping-stone to producing his first feature film: [[Monsters (2010 film)|Monsters]].

Winners are judged by Jury, which in the past has included directors [[John Landis]], [[Marc Caro]] and [[Vincenzo Natali]] as judges. In 2011 the jury included directors [[Gareth Edwards (director)|Gareth Edwards]] and [[Edgar Wright]], and features a development deal as its star prize.

{| class="wikitable" width="475"
|+'''48hr Film Challenge Winner'''
|-
!width="50"|2008
|Title: ''Factory Farmed'' - Team Name: Rebel Alliance
|-
!width="50"|2009
|Title: ''Tracker'' - Team Name: The Lost Souls
|-
!width="50"|2010
|Title: ''Abducted'' - Team Name: Shoot The Runner
|-
!width="50"|2011
|Title: ''The Intention Of Miles'' - Team Name: Half Baked Films
|-
!width="50"|2012
|Title: ''Future.Inc'' - Team Name: Future Tense
|-
!width="50"|2013
|Title: ''Free Zone'' - Team Name: Lonely Light
|-
!width="50"|2014
|Title: ''The March'' - Team Name: Mission Media/Black Ant
|-
!width="50"|2015
|Title: ''Interlude'' - Team Name: Starcrust
|}

==Focus On==

Since 2009 the film festival has dedicated part of its programme to the highlighting of different, and often under appreciated countries and their contribution to the genre. This has taken the form of screenings of current and classic films, shorts, talks and discussions.

{| class="wikitable" width="180"
|+'''Focus Countries'''
|-
!width="50"|2009
|Israel
|-
!width="50"|2010
|Poland
|-
!width="50"|2011
|Italy
|}

==All-Nighters==

The Sci-Fi-London Film Festival is one of the few locations in the United Kingdom to consistently screen '''All-Nighters''' – movie marathons, which run throughout the night (with the aid of ice-cream and caffeine drinks).

{| class="wikitable"
|+'''Past All-Nighter Line-ups'''
|-
!rowspan="3" valign="top" width="50"|2002
|align="right"|'''[[Alien (film series)|Alien]]'''||''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'', ''[[Alien 3]]'', ''[[Alien Resurrection]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[John Carpenter]]'''||''[[They Live]]'', ''[[The Thing (1982 film)|The Thing]]'', ''[[Escape from New York]]'', ''[[Dark Star (film)|Dark Star]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Mixed Bag'''||''[[Akira (1988 film)|Akira]]'', ''[[Bad Taste]]'', ''[[Jin Roh]]'', ''Electric Dragon 80k Volts''
|-
!rowspan="2" valign="top"|2003
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]] 1'''||''[[Akira (1988 film)|Akira]]'', ''[[Armitage: Dual Matrix]]'', ''[[Patlabor 2]]'', ''[[Macross Plus]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]] 2'''||''[[Spriggan]]'', ''[[Perfect Blue]]'', ''Wings of Honnaemise'', ''[[Armitage: Dual Matrix]]''
|-
!rowspan="3" valign="top"|2004
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Nadesico]]: The Motion Picture'', ''[[Ghost in the Shell]]'', ''[[Kai Doh Maru]]'', ''Voices from a Distant Star'', ''[[Patlabor 1]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Aliens ‘n’ Predators'''||''[[Event Horizon (film)|Event Horizon]]'', ''[[Pitch Black (film)|Pitch Black]]'', ''[[The Thing (1982 film)|The Thing]]'', ''[[Resident Evil]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Sushi Royale With Cheese'''||''[[Full Metal Yakuza]]'', ''Goke – Bodysnatcher From Hell'', ''Battle Heater'', ''The Spiral''
|-
!rowspan="3" valign="top"|2005
|align="right"|'''[[Shaw Brothers]]'''||''[[The Super Inframan]]'', ''Oily Maniac'', ''[[The Mighty Peking Man]]'', ''The Monkey Goes West''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Parasite Dolls]]'', ''Sky Blue'', ''[[Lady Death]]'', ''[[RahXephon]]: The Movie''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[The Matrix series|Matrix]]'''||''[[The Matrix]]'', ''[[The Animatrix]]'', ''[[The Matrix Reloaded]]'', ''[[The Matrix Revolutions]]''
|-
!rowspan="3" valign="top"|2006
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''The Brain That Wouldn't Die'', ''Prince of Space'', ''[[Space Mutiny]]'', ''[[Time Chasers]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence]]'', ''[[Karas: The Prophecy]]'', ''[[Final Fantasy VII Advent Children]]'', ''[[The Place Promised in Our Early Days]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Tears Before Bedtime'''||''[[Innocent Blood (film)|Innocent Blood]]'', ''[[Night Watch (2004 film)|Night Watch]]'', ''Prince of Darkness'', ''[[Cronos (film)|Cronos]]''
|-
!rowspan="3" valign="top"|2007
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Ghost in the Shell]]: Solid State Society'', ''[[Paprika]]'', ''[[Le Chevalier D'Eon]]'', ''Highlander: Search for Vengeance'', ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]: Conqueror of Shamballa''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[Overdrawn at the Memory Bank]]'', ''[[The Atomic Brain]]'', ''Hobgoblins'', ''[[Manos: The Hands of Fate]]'', ''[[The Undead]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Hammer Horror]]'''||''[[Stolen Face]]'', ''X, The Unknown'', ''Four-Sided Triangle'', ''[[Spaceways]]''
|-
!rowspan="8" valign="top"|2008
!colspan="2" |SCI-FI-LONDON 7
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Dead Space (video game)|Dead Space]]'''||''[[Alien (film)|Alien]] – Director's Cut'', ''[[Pitch Black (film)|Pitch Black]]'', ''[[Solaris (2002 film)|Solaris]] (2002)'', ''[[The Thing (1982 film)|The Thing]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Appleseed Ex Machina]]'', ''[[The Girl Who Leapt Through Time]] (2006)'', ''[[Tekkon Kinkreet]]'', ''[[Vexille]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[Battlefield Earth (film)|Battlefield Earth]] ([[RiffTrax]])'', ''Merlin's Mystical Shop of Wonders'', ''[[The Creeping Terror]]'', ''[[Santa Claus Conquers the Martians]]''
|-
!colspan="2" |OKTOBERFEST 2008
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Dead Space: Downfall]]'', ''[[Hellsing Ultimate]] IV'', ''Strait Jacket'', ''Sword of the Stranger'', ''[[Bleach (manga)|Bleach]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Zombie]]'''||''Colin'', ''[[Chanbara Beauty]]'', ''[[Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!]]'', ''Tokyo Zombie''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[Plan 9 from Outer Space]] ([[RiffTrax]])'', ''[[Pod People]]'', ''[[Danger Diabolik]]'', ''[[Puma Man]]'', ''SWHS''
|-
!rowspan="9" valign="top"|2009
!colspan="2" |SCI-FI-LONDON 8
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[House on Haunted Hill]] ([[Rifftrax]])'', ''[[Doomsday Machine (1972 film)|The Doomsday Machine]] ([[Cinematic Titanic]])'', ''[[The Phantom Planet]]'', ''[[Hamlet]]'', ''[[Labyrinth]] (Live Improv.)''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Star Trek (film franchise)|Star Trek]]'''||''[[Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan]]'', ''[[Star Trek III: The Search for Spock]]'', ''[[Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home]]'', ''[[Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Ghost in the Shell]] 2.0'', ''[[Afro Samurai: Resurrection]]'', ''[[Naruto]] The Movie 3: Guardians of the Crescent Moon Kingdom'', ''Panda! Go Panda!'', ''Origin: Spirits from the Past''
|-
|align="right"|'''Italian Horror'''||''The Mask of Satan'', ''[[Sleepless (2001 film)|Sleepless]]'', ''[[Macabre]]'', ''[[Black Sabbath]]''
|-
!colspan="2" |OKTOBERFEST 2009
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[The Sky Crawlers]]'', ''[[Time of Eve]]'', ''[[Evangelion 1.0]]'', ''King of Thorn'', ''[[Eureka Seven]] - Good Night, Sleep Tight, Young Lovers''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Alien vs. Predator|AVP]]'''||''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]'', ''[[Aliens (film)|Aliens]]'', ''[[Alien 3]]'', ''[[Predator (film)|Predator]]'', ''[[Alien vs. Predator (film)|Alien vs. Predator]]
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[Space Mutiny]]'', ''[[Teenagers from Outer Space]]''
|-
|-
!rowspan="10" valign="top"|2010
!colspan="2" |SCI-FI-LONDON 9
|-
|align="right"|'''Comedy'''||''Salute of the Jugger (Live Improv.)'', ''[[The Alien Factor]] ([[Cinematic Titanic]])'', ''[[The Unearthly]]'' ([[MST3K]]), ''First Spaceship on Venus ([[MST3K]])''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty|Starcraft II]]'''||''[[Independence Day (1996 film)|Independence Day]]'', ''[[Starship Troopers]]'', ''[[The Abyss]]'', ''[[Screamers (1995 film)|Screamers]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Manga ([[Anime]])'''||''[[Redline]]'', ''Musashi: The Dream of the Last Samurai'', ''[[Bleach (manga)|Bleach]] The Movie: The Diamond Dust Rebellion'', ''Fate/Stay Night Unlimited Blade Works''
|-
|align="right"|'''Japan Alive'''||''Chanbara Striptease'', ''Tokyo Gore School'', ''Tajomaru'', ''[[Kamui (film)|Kamui]]''
|-
!colspan="2" |OKTOBERFEST 2010
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Eden of the East]]'', ''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]'', ''[[The Cat Returns]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''The Angel's Revenge'', ''[[Mitchell (film)|Mitchell]]'', ''Prince of Space'', ''Sidehakers'', ''The Wild World of Batwoman''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Guillermo del Toro|Del Toro]]'''||''[[Pan's Labyrinth]]'', ''[[Cronos (film)|Cronos]]'', ''[[The Devil's Backbone]]'', ''[[Mimic (film)|Mimic]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Studio Ghibli]]'''||''[[Spirited Away]]'', ''[[Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)|Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind]]'', ''[[The Cat Returns]]'', ''[[Howl's Moving Castle (film)|Howl's Moving Castle]]''
|-
|-
!rowspan="6" valign="top"|2011
!colspan="2" |SCI-FI-LONDON 10
|-
|align="right"|'''Royal Wedding'''||''[[Bride of Frankenstein]]'', ''[[Bride of the Monster]]'', ''[[The Corpse Vanishes]]'', ''[[I Married A Witch]]'', ''[[Bride of the Gorilla]]
|-
|align="right"|'''IMAX'''||''[[2001: A Space Odyssey (film)|2001: A Space Odyssey]]'', ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', ''[[Outland (film)|Outland]]'', ''[[Brainstorm (1983 film)|Brainstorm]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Fantascienza'''||''[[Bronx Warriors]]'', ''[[Escape from the Bronx]]'', ''[[The New Barbarians]]'', ''The Beast in Space''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[Squirm (film)|Squirm]]'', ''[[Robot Monster]]'', ''[[Night of the Blood Beast]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Neptune Men]]'', ''[[The Projected Man]]
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Akira (1988 film)|Akira]]'', ''2001 Nights: Fumihiko Sori's To'', ''Eden of the East - Air Communication'', ''Eden of the East - The Kind of Eden'', ''[[Redline (2009 film)|Redline]]
|-
|-
!rowspan="6" valign="top"|2012
!colspan="2" |SCI-FI-LONDON 11
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Anime]]'''||''[[Bleach: Fade to Black]]'', ''[[Freedom Project]]'', ''[[Mardock Scramble: The First Compression]]'', ''[[Mardock Scramble: The Second Combustion]]'', ''[[Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust]]
|-
|align="right"|'''[[MST3K]]'''||''[[Beginning of the End (film)|Beginning of the End]]'', ''[[The Robot vs. The Aztec Mummy]]'', ''[[The Dead Talk Back]]'', ''[[The Killer Shrews]]'', ''[[Rocketship X-M]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''[[Boris Karloff]]'''||''[[The Invisible Ray (1936 film)|The Invisible Ray]]'', ''[[The Black Cat (1934 film)|The Black Cat]]'', ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'', ''[[The Mask of Fu Manchu]]'', ''[[Black Friday (1940 film)|Black Friday]]''
|-
|align="right"|'''Dutch Master: [[Paul Verhoeven|Verhoeven]]'''||''[[RoboCop]]'', ''[[Total Recall (1990 film)|Total Recall]]'', ''[[Hollow Man]]'', ''[[Starship Troopers]]''
|}

==Oktoberfest and other events==

In late 2008 '''Sci-Fi-London''' hosted its very first '''Oktoberfest''': a one-day festival featuring new films and all-nighters, held at its regular London venue: the Apollo Piccadilly Circus. A second Oktoberfest was held on 23/24 October 2009, with a third on the 14th-16 October 2010, at The [[Royal Observatory, Greenwich]], the [[Royal Society]] and the Apollo Piccadilly Circus.

On occasion '''Sci-Fi-London''' has also hosted other events, either outside London, or at other times of the year.

In 2005 '''Sci-Fi-London''' took its feature films, short films and all-nighters '''On Tour''', to Edinburgh, Liverpool, York and Exeter, in February and March of that year.

In January 2010 '''Sci-Fi-London''' made its very first trip abroad, when the festival traveled to Powai, Mumbai and Ahmedadad, to hold screenings and workshops as '''Sci-Fi-London-In-India'''. With many positive responses from all three venues, it is now hoped that further events of this type might be possible in the future.

==Website==
Not only acting as a first point of reference for the Film Festival itself, the '''Sci-Fi-London''' website also provides year-round ''News'', ''Interviews'', ''Reviews'', ''Podcasts'', ''Listings'' and ''Competitions'', on a similar range of topics to that of the festival.

The website also features information on past festivals, how to volunteer at the festival, as well as a ''[http://www.sci-fi-london.com/mailing-list Mailing List]'' and ''[http://www.sci-fi-london.com/forum Message Board/Forum]''.

[http://www.sci-fi-london.com SCI-FI-LONDON.COM] also operates a free 'webTV' service at [http://www.sci-fi-london.tv SCI-FI-LONDON.TV], featuring films and shorts previously submitted or screened at past festivals.


==External links==
==External links==
* [http://www.sci-fi-london.com Sci-Fi-London Homepage]
* [http://www.sci-fi-london.com SCI-FI-LONDON Homepage]
* [http://www.sci-fi-london.tv Sci-Fi-London webTV]
* [http://www.sci-fi-london.com/audio Sci-Fi-London Podcasts]
* [https://www.facebook.com/scifilondon SFL Facebook page]
* [http://twitter.com/scifilondon SFL Twitter page]
* [https://www.flickr.com/groups/sci-fi-london Flickr group]
* [http://www.clarkeaward.com/ Arthur C. Clarke Award Homepage]
* [http://www.clarkeaward.com/ Arthur C. Clarke Award Homepage]


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SCI-FI-LONDON
Festival Poster 2011
LocationLondon, United Kingdom
Founded2002
AwardsThe Arthur C. Clarke Award / Best Short Film / Audience Award
LanguageInternational
Websitehttp://www.sci-fi-london.com/

Sci-Fi-London (stylised as SCI-FI-LONDON), also known as the London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film or simply SFL, is an annual United Kingdom–based film festival dedicated to the science fiction and fantasy genres.[1] Originally founded in 2002, it was held at the Stratford Picturehouse in London from 2008–2022, and in 2023 will be in central London at Prince Charles Cinema, the Picturehouse Central, the Garden Cinema and Rich Mix.[2][3]

Arthur C. Clarke Award

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Main article: Arthur C. Clarke Award

Sci-Fi-London hosts the awards ceremony for the Arthur C. Clarke Award.[4] It is awarded to the best science fiction novel which received its first British publication during a calendar year, chosen by jury.[5]

References

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  1. ^ "London Sci-Fi Film Festival". IMDb.
  2. ^ "The SFL Archive". Sci-Fi-London. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  3. ^ Harper, Rachael (16 May 2023). "Sci-Fi-London: Genre film festival returns with new central London locations". SciFiNow. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  4. ^ "2023 Clarke Award Shortlist". Locus Mag. 7 June 2023. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  5. ^ "The Arthur C. Clarke Award". The Arthur C. Clarke Award. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
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