2026 Official Selection: Short Film – SciFi
When a middle-aged UberEats driver convinces a documentary crew to film his reunion with his long lost extraterrestrial family, a decades old conspiracy theory is put to the test.
Screening date & tickets — to be announced
- Director(s): Cesar Cervantes
- Writer(s): Haohan Ding, Cesar Cervantes
- Producer(s): Zoe Tamara
- Key Cast: Ron Song, Luke Barnett
- Editor(s): Abbi Jutkowitz
- Cinematographer(s): Henry Yin
- Production Designer(s): Rixi Xinrui Liu
- Sound Designer(s): Deanna Fielding
- Composer(s): Joe Chris
Language: English
Runtime: 16m
Country: United States
Synopsis: Kevin Chen has spent his life convinced he’s an alien stranded on Earth. When he receives an email from his supposed “family” promising to pick him up in a flying Honda Odyssey, Kevin invites a documentary crew to film the reunion.
Despite everyone’s suspicion that he’s being scammed, Kevin leads the crew into the Angeles National Forest with $3,000 already sent for "space gas."