Let’s face it; short films are awesome, but we rarely get to see them outside of bits during the Oscars (and if you’re lucky, at the AFI during their pre-Oscar shorts fest).  But sometimes, and I say sometimes, we’ll get a peek at a short film that sounds so awesome I’ve gotta share.  This Saturday at this year’s Screamfest LA — the horror movie fest any self-respecting genre geek slavers over — they’ll be showing the short Singularity.  You wanna know more about it?  Of course you do.

From the Singularity press kit:

The story revolves around the discovery of an organism, frozen in the Arctic Ice, that shatters Man’s every notion of evolution, and replaces it with a terrifying reality – that Man may no longer be the soul source of intelligent life on Earth.  And in our lust for power, we may have just given birth to our own extinction.

Sounds…well, a little like The Thing, right?  But it’s also a look at how you can take an amazing story idea and fashion it into a beautifully done piece with very little funding.  And the plans for a feature-length film are full speed ahead.  If you’re wondering how a short film could every possibly be good enough to stretch into a full length feature, remember that The Evil Dead started the exact same way.

From writer/Director Shian Storm:

“The next step for us is to get the feature made. Iʼm really excited about it. Itʼs gonna completely blow peoplesʼ minds. Weʼre talking about elements that have never been seen in a film before. Itʼs a MASSIVE concept with major franchise and cross-platform potential, which sounds pretty ambitious, I know, but…” he pauses for a moment, and then humbly smiles, “Steve Jobs built an incredible empire out of a small project that began in his garage… maybe what weʼre trying to do isnʼt all that different.”

Check out this gallery of behind-the-scenes goodness, and let me know what you think!  I’ll be over here wishing I was in L.A….