In celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alien, 20th Century Fox partners with Tongal to release a series of fan-made short films commemorating the iconic movie. Roughly 550 applications were submitted for the contest, which has since been narrowed down to six winners. Now, you can watch each of the Alien shorts, ranging in length from 9 minutes to 12 minutes.
The filmmakers were granted access to the Alien archives, awarded permission to use as many characters and creatures as they desired. After completing the films, they were then screened at a number of Comic-Con events across the United States.
Below you can see a synopsis and stream for each project.
Alone: Hope, an abandoned crew member aboard the derelict chemical hauler Otranto, has spent a year trying to keep her ship and herself alive as both slowly fall apart. After discovering hidden cargo, she risks it all to power up the broken ship in search of human life.
Containment: Four survivors find themselves stranded aboard a small escape pod in deep space. Trying to piece together the details around the outbreak that led to their ship’s destruction, they find themselves unsure to trust whether or not one of them might be infected.
Harvest: The surviving crew of a damaged deep-space harvester have minutes to reach the emergency evacuation shuttle. A motion sensor is their only navigation tool leading them to safety while a creature in the shadows terrorizes the crew. However, the greatest threat might have been hiding in plain sight all along.
Night Shift: When a missing space trucker is discovered hungover and disoriented, his co-worker suggests a nightcap as a remedy. Near closing time, they are reluctantly allowed inside the colony supply depot where the trucker’s condition worsens, leaving a young supply worker alone to take matters into her own hands.
Ore: As a hard-working miner of a planet mining colony, Lorraine longs to make a better life for her daughter and grandchildren. When her shift uncovers the death of a fellow miner under mysterious circumstances, Lorraine is forced to choose between escape or defying management orders and facing her fears to fight for the safety of her family.
Specimen: It’s the night shift in a colony greenhouse, and Julie, a botanist, does her best to contain suspicious soil samples that have triggered her sensitive lab dog. Despite her best efforts the lab unexpectedly goes into full shutdown and she is trapped inside. Little does she know, an alien specimen has escaped the mysterious cargo, and a game of cat and mouse ensues as the creature searches for a host.
In further celebration of the 40th anniversary of Ridley Scott's Alien, 20th Century Fox will be showing the movie in more than 600 theaters on October 13, 15, and 16. You can visit Fathom Events for more details.
