I caught festival fever this summer at MIFF (read all about it here). Now I’m back at it with the SciFi Schenectady Film Festival, held from 9/18-9/20 in Schenectady’s historic Proctors Theater. This year’s lineup includes a promisingly eclectic mix of new and old, science fiction and fantasy, and features and short films.

Keep an eye out for mini-reviews from my time at the festival:

SSFF, Pt. 1: ‘Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die’
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die (2025)

SSFF, Pt. 2: ‘The Princess Bride’, SciFi Shorts, ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’
The Princess Bride (1987)
SciFi Shorts: Deep Space Degenerates (2026), _Preview_ (2024), Invasion ’53 (2025), Laura Living Backwards (2024), Human Resource (2025), First Sight (2024)
The Conjuring: Last Rites (2025)

SSFF, Pt. 3: Fantasy Shorts, ‘Metropolis’
Fantasy Shorts: Stuck 2gether (2026), Las Hadas de la Sombra (2026), Ever After (2025), Em & Selma go Griffin Hunting (2025), Eiru (2025)
Metropolis (1927)