Sci-Fi Short Film "Stevie's Aliens" | Presented by DUST
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- Published on Jan 3, 2019
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"Stevie's Aliens" by Austin S. Harris
A skeptical high school student is thrown into a night of adventure after he sees a UFO.
Greg, a high school student and aspiring writer, finds out that he has been rejected from his top choice writing school. His confident and science-oriented girlfriend, Julia, encourages him to get his mind off of the bad news by accompanying her to a concert that night and Greg, now a dejected mess, agrees.
Greg goes home and begins to look through a box of his stories, going back to his childhood, that he keeps under his bed. Just as he’s beginning to enjoy reminiscing he gives himself a paper cut, which prompts him to throw the entire box of stories away.
On his way to the concert, Greg has an unexplainable encounter with a bright light that seems to be a UFO. He meets Stevie, another high school student who seems to know more about the light, and the two discover that Greg’s paper cut has vanished. Stevie brings Greg back to his house, and perform a deep-thinking ritual that Stevie has pioneered to summon the light. Meanwhile, Julia, who has gone to Greg’s house to look for him, returns home and begins reading a book about UFOs in response to a strange text Greg sends her about his encounter. She leaves a voicemail for Greg saying that she doesn’t believe in UFOs.
Greg and Stevie successfully summon the light, which makes the electronics in Stevie’s room go haywire, but because Julia was reading the book, her electronics are affected too. Seeing the connection between Greg’s text and what happened in her room, she goes to Greg’s house to investigate, where she sees Greg walking with Stevie, guided by a device Stevie is holding. She watches from behind a tree as Greg, now with a renewed sense of optimism, takes his stories out of the trash. She follows the two of them to a large hill, and confronts Greg. Greg convinces her to take a chance on something science can’t prove, and she accepts.
For more about the film/filmmaker:
www.austinsharris.com/
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Nonoononononononononoooooooooo!!
You CANNOT leave me hanging like this!!!!!!
GIMMEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!
PALEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESE!!!
STUNNING! The acting, storyline, the camera work! I did not want it to end, sitting on the edge of my seat! Quote, mark luttrell " surpassed many box-office films" Simply wonderful work. Peace.
I want to see more!! Part 2 please!?
Patty, How about a whole series? Great storyline etc. Something I would wait to watch every week. Peace.
Time 2:50 of the video, the actor sucks on his finger, you normally wash your hands and fingers!
This was great! Love the imagination behind this.
Really well made - good directing, cinematography, acting, writing... yada yada - professional job and can't wait to see more...
What's the jazzy song where the girl is getting ready please?
hmmmmm ... Once again a short where once you get hooked up to the storyline it ends and leaves you dissatisfied !
also click bait thumbnail, I saw Greg and Stevie "wired" up and expected them to be abducted and probed the evil aliens !
Beautiful cinematography and score! An exceptionally well done short. Can't wait for more from Austin Harris!
And the HUGE TR-3B floated silently right over their heads.... It's real. I've seen it!
Never see anything Sci-Fi.. no UFO's! No Aliens! No Nothing!👎🏼👎🏼🛸🛸🛸👎🏼👎🏼
I hate these shorts... Why? Simple... Start of a Cool Movie or Series. But do Dust make a cool movie or series??? HELL NAW... And this one is a prime example. Cool short BUT NO follow up movie or series
Very Spielbergian. I liked it.
SO GLAD THERE ARE POC BEING SHOWN IN THIS SHORT. I’m an actress myself .
this could be a great feature length
I see white..............aliens.
Wat! Y u do dis to me, ending?
And they fell asleep on the hill & woke up in old man Jenkins attic.
I love DUST, so addictive. I'm like ok, just one more then I need to feed the cat or just one more then I need to take a shower. Ok, I'll just watch one more then I need to get something to eat. Ok fine, just one more then I absolutely have to clean the house. Unfortunately I am now an anorexic, smelly hoarder who rocks back and forth with a dead cat in her lap lol......:/
@DUST Haha, yes for sure. I was just joking of course. The house is clean, I smell like a flower from the meadow and the cat is happy and healthy. But can you just imagine if it went the other way? It's a fine line but luckily I can stay addicted and still have a life. Keep up the good work by the way, I LOVE your videos!! :)
You've fallen into the wormhole - thankfully it will spit you out on a timeline your cat is still alive (hopefully)
simply brilliant... 5 start cinematography
Great 1st 15 mins of an amazing fiilm!
Can't wait to see the next 2 hrs😊 btw the way the acting was of professional quality- the actors disappeared into their roles so I believed the characters were real people who had lives that existed before the action inthe plot had begun. Great writing here too. Kudos to everyone involved in this production
For a full length movie similar to this, watch 'Saturday Night Special.'
Has a 'Amazing Stories' from the 80's feel.
Meh
good acting and pretty good low key story. might actually translate to something full length well.
Kinda of an 8mm vibe ...
Good build-up, zero delivery.
No conclusive results.
I want to see a full length movie of this, with these same actors!
LoL!m The Back To The Future snippet! Exactly what I have on my phone to remind me I have a message... =o)
that was dumb.
Now this is a story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down...
Follow your bliss,a path to least resistance,clear your mind,focused and it's all about LOA wrapped in sci fi movie ,I think.
Delightfully charming and original
I loved this!! I need to point out one mistake though. When you stand your girlfriend up for a date, she does not go home and start reading a book calm and happy!!! I don't care how wonderful she is! :) Otherwise, great film!!!!
Amazing 'shorts' DUST there 's what I call Talent !
Ok, both Dust and Omeleto are great movie channels.
I loved it so don't misunderstand this. Has anyone read "Alien Intrusion" by Gary Bates Jilia was reading? The conclusion he comes to is UFO's are real but demonic angels and not from another planet. Great movie - just thought this point may be missed by most.
Why am i the only one that thinks this was terrible? O_o
The writing was subpar and the frustrating lack of continuity between locations and trying to figure out where everyone was or how )or why) they got there completely pulled me out of the story.
And the non-resolution endings have become such an annoying cliché that all it does is piss me off - especially when you can see it coming from so far away. Pro-tip to inexperienced filmmakers: Don't do it. When you know what you're doing, then you can consider doing it.
And then still don't.
I'm not sayin it's aliens, but it's aliens.
Glasses guy is creepy.😵
Another lovely DUST experience. Love these stories. If I got a text on my phone like he sent her, my simplest reply would be, "Because I've seen them, I too must believe"
Stevie's Aliens goes all out on those Spielberg vibes, especially E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind. All aspects feel like Spielberg, including the look, the feel, the music, and even the story itself. And I have no doubt in my mind that they used the name Stevie to reference Steven Spielberg.
there's this thing I do where I watch these while high...
Even the pure in heart....can become a vampire. (Or alien)
woow thx
Best part 11:35
Another winner from dust. I am constantly amazed at the quality of these. Well acted and directed. I was actually moved when his girlfriend grabbed his hand and went with. Really cool.
Devin Mojica looks hella familiar... even though IMDB sites this and Zombieland: Double Tap as the only works he appeared in... hmm...
It's beautiful. Thanks.
She is extra pretty.
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The sound track made this one very enjoyable!
Well done. Well written, acted, casted, directed. Kudos!
It feels like a throwaway movie a company would pump out on the coattails of something better but somehow got a cult following.
Is gud.
What’s the song called
Austin S. Harris must be an avid admirer of Dr. Stephen Greer; characters conjuring UFO's in like manner...
Cliffhanger yeah love them
This was so beautiful. How did you get me to care so much about all three of these characters in such a short time? My mind keeps coming back to the soundtrack as well, it feels so uplifting and fitting.
Brilliant work, and I hope that everyone involved is getting the opportunities they deserve to do more of the same!
I have been watching this channel a lot lately. I really needed to see something new and creative. Lord knows Hollywood is just gonna keep making crap.
What was that box with the blue light on a rod anyway?
Felt like a cheap rip-off of early Steven Spielberg: Close Encounters, ET, Poltergeist. Was hoping for more originality, and character motives for the way they interacted. "Disappointed"
It was a tribute to Speilburg, duhh! It was deliebrately referencing all his classics. I guess the subtleties were lost on you.
2 stars. Nothing good EVER comes from tying yourself up with speaker wire. And, what were they looking at?
You know what would have been nice in a film called "Stevie's Aliens"???? Aliens....
Am I the only one noticing the sound is out of sync?
where was sci-fi? ... this is stupid ... the movie industry is flooded with this shit ... next time make a movie that something happend in it
The story was great, but... The lack of proper ending is becoming increasingly annoying.
"Humanity is approaching a very dangerous and very important time in its collective development. You are on the verge of emerging into a Greater Community of intelligent life. You will be encountering other races of beings who are coming to your world seeking to protect their interests and to discover what opportunities may lie ahead. They are not angels or angelic beings. They are not spiritual entities. They are beings who are coming to your world for resources, for alliances and to gain an advantage in an emerging world. They are not evil. They are not holy. In that, they are also much like you. They are simply driven by their needs, their associations, their beliefs and their collective goals.
This is a very great time for humanity, but humanity is not prepared."
- Excerpt from Allies of Humanity Book 1, by Marshall Vian Summers.
Ok.....so where's the ending???
Awesome. Watch it. Nuff said.
Very enjoyable short!
Everyone else has gone into all of the technical stuff and usual critiques. I will just say keep doing what you're doing and you will make some truly great films!
Pretty good for a student project.
Great work!
Good stuff...
Its incomplete darn it.
I enjoyed this short such potential.
I liked it. But you can go up that hill to meet the aliens but I can tell you it's not gonna work. They won't show up. I tried it over and over. Up on hills. On the roof. Even played Blue Oyster Cult "Take Me Away" over and over. They just won't come. But I liked this movie very much.
The pacing sucks on this one...could only watch the half of it.
Permit me one small quibble. 11:00 this traditional metronome works off of a coiled spring, not electricity or magnetism.
What is the name of that song at 5:07
Bit much "i want to believe" on this channel. Really not needed. Building on a very immature concept, I toss something up in the air that you don't know what is and it is an UFO. We don't need this pushed. Extraterrestrial life is something entirely different. UFO stories build upon like this video that aliens visit earth just isn't needed as everything we need to know lie in evolution and the vastness of space. And our current knowledge of space, which is abysmal. Yet enough to nearly state it is a fact that there must be life out in space. It is just a matter of time, we don't need the subject deluded into UFO's that adhere to the dwindling intelligence of humans which again feed our wasted time. We should have colony on mars now, but we prefer to wage war on each other and all the other wondrous things human spend their lives doing. Like praying for miracles from above instead of lifting a single finger to solve problems themselves.
DO NOT DEGRADE YOURSELF WITH UFO STORIES.
Someone's got a lot of time on their hands!
dialog got me really cringe. You don't response like that if it was real life situation
acting is on amateur level
Judging by your English it's safe to assume you really didn't catch all the nuance, lol!
looks like the film budget ran out towards the end there.
Could you please stop putting the black bars into the videos? Just upload the video in its real aspect ratio. It's awful to watch on ultrawide screens
Wasn't quite sure where you were going with that initially...but then, oh well!
Really good production. Talented work all around.
Great acting and well played!! A feature film would be awesome........with these actors in it!!
I love all your short Films!
Okay Close Encounters of the Obama kind, tell us WTF happened ?
You must be from that other America people talk about.
Uhm
....... I dont think anyone knows this but ur supposed to wrap hrself in copper wire attached to a eltrical source and crystals to be able to connect with aliens or spirits
STUPID! TERRIBLE ACTORS!!🙄🙄🙄
Bogus
Well that was a very pleasant surprise! This was really good, not knowing what was going to happen, WOW!!!👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿The acting was spot on, and the cinematography was GREAT!!!! Love the ending to! Really, really, happy with story and all!!! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
So nobody clicks the black kid....
Huh?
What amazing Channel!!!! THIS Channel should be more popular.
Thanks Norton, we're getting there :)
Colective autosugestion...leading into beliaf...
Really great science fiction short with excellent actors. Awesome story line. The music score was good but needs more of that cinematic mix (more mid-bass & bass). Everything else is perfect.
This video is about a town who has too much chromium in their water and they all go crazy and develop schizophrenia.
This would actually make a great movie.. much more believable than most and with love, geekiness all wrapped up into one.. Not sure why all the downthumbs..
I agree that it would make a great movie, but I fear Hollywood would ruin it. They'd focus on teen angst, extend the emotional turmoil over the love interest, lose the significance of his early art work, leave the box in the recycling, and bury the SF as irrelevant; probably ending the story at the same point, but with the love interest Not going with him. Bleah!
5:07 Is that a pipe on her stereo? That would explain some of this story. (Space aliens smuggling in some cosmic gak)...
The only thing lacking is part 2.
So... there's a part 2 coming, right?