Jules Charlton | Ireland | 5:00 | Short Film

What if an alien civilization arrived on Earth and nobody cared?

In the midst of the Covid 19 lock down, interstellar spacecraft appear over Ireland to initiate first contact. The government is uninterested. It falls to scientists from the Office of Alien Communications to bridge the gap.

Director Biography – Jules Charlton

Jules Charlton studied cinematography at Ballyfermot College of Further Education.

His work has screened at numerous film festivals including London Surf Film Festival, Galway Film Fleadh, Worldfest Houston, Solaris Film Festival, Elizabethtown Film Festival, Richard Harris Film Festival, Chicago Irish Film Festival, Dublin Smartphone Film Festival and Fastnet Film Festival.

Jules has won two awards at Worldfest Houston and, in 2017, his video installation, ‘i aM eLLIS bELL’, won an EU art prize as part of the Welcome Theatre Playing Identities project.