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The Unseen Realm
The latest collaboration between Symbiotic films and DIstopia media brings us the latest project, the early preview screening of the streaming pilot for the sci-fi anthology show, THE UNSEEN REALM. Produced by Dan Abella, Kendall Brown and Aldo Romero, this series is the first of it's kind, a major platform for the best in indie sci-fi soon to be available on all streaming platforms.
The Unseen Realm is inspired by classics such as Twilight Zone and Black Mirror. It features a curated selected of the best shorts of The Philip K Dick Science Fiction Festival. Catch the Unseen Film before it moves on to streamers. The Unseen Realm can be seen April 2-14, online at The Philip K Dick Film Festival. For program information and tickets visit the Philip K Dick Film Festival.
For more information about the project go to the Philip K. Dick Film Festival site:
The Time Sentinel
Following the resounding success of the screenings at the PKD Film Festival, the Shock-a-Go-Go Film Festival and more recently at the Bronx World Film, Inc. at La Nacional, The Time Sentinel, Directed by Aldo Romero. Stand by for more upcoming news of The Time Sentinel: The Graphic Novel.
This is the first creative project by Symbiotic Film to utilize Unreal Engine and take advantage of it's real time game capabilities in a full production pipeline. The screenplay titiled The Girl who Killed God, also written by Aldo Romero, was a semi finalist as well as featured at the panel "Writing a succcessful Screenplay."
For more information about the project download the pitch deck:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LSxuHhJrLlFrzm9Q3DT7FJVGdixIub7P/view?usp=drive_link
Director Aldo Romero, Ken Brown and Dan Abella / Spehen Booth, Aldo Romero, Nelson Pereyra and Associates at the 2025 New York Sci Fi Film Festival.
Alert Innovation
The Alphabot, an industrial robot built to function in commercial storage facilities, was the subject of one of our most recent client projects for Alert Innovation.
Symbiotic Film employed Unreal Engine exclusively on a commercial project for the first time and did so with remarkable success. The conversion of industrial animation from 3D Studio Max to Unreal Engine was a part of this new approach. Included in this was the initial 3D industrial model, which required a significant amount of lighting and texture map conversion. Future projects will undoubtedly benefit from having lighting and rendering done in close to real time.
Rockaway Wildlife
The premiere of Rockaway Wildlife took place at The Brewery in Rockaway Beach, and it was a huge success.
This "fly on the wall" documentary explores the lifestyle and surfing scene in Rockaway Beach in New York. Director Aldo Romero characterizes this video, which was shot at New York's Rockaway Beach over the course of one summer in 2022, as "Cinematic poetry via the perspective of drone footage." The movie serves as a metaphor for contrasting the free-spirited way of life of surfers, skateboarders, and other urban wildlife with dolphins and other marine species found along the east coast.
To see this film go to: Projects page.
The Chambers
The Chambers, a streaming pilot about the inner workings of a fictional supreme court, just finished extensive green screen work to create virtual set.
The Chambers – In God We Trust is a winner of numerous awards in the festival circuit including Best Web/ TV Series at the Crown Point International Film Festival, as well as others in festivals like Florence Film Awards and the Hollywood Gold Awards. An entire "virtual set" was created in Autodesk 3D Studio Max for this project complete with furniture, light fixtures desk and bookcase (including details of the law books). Lighting was carefully created to match the live action elements in the original shot which included the American flag and chairs actors were sitting on. The 3D model was composited in Adobe After Effects and Nuke to line up the shots. Post-production editing in Final Cut X stitched the entire scene together into one seamless sequence.
For more information on this series go to:
https://thechambersseries.com/
The Fearless Three
A hero is reborn.
Alonzo Herran Jr. as Cody.
The climactic battle.
Ricardo Khalil Addams-Pilgram as Adrian.
Symbiotic Film recently completed VFX Supervision for the feature film The Fearless Three.
Over 90 VFX shots were completed for this project, including green screen, particle effects, rotoscoping, match moving and compositing of 3D animated elements. A combination of software included Adobe After Effects and Nuke for compositing. Parts of the practical set were recreated digitally in order to interact with many of the plasma lighting effects, including the "portal sphere of energy" VFX. "The fighting scenes were a particular challenge", says visual Effects supervisor Aldo Romero, "As we had to rotoscope fast moving fight moves in order to composite the plasma energy effects on hands and punch impacts as well as the glowing eyes.
For more information on this film go to:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20257368/
To see trailer go to:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdPCU01BNPU/
The Kingdom
Edit and Post-Production by Aldo Romero and Symbiotic Film
Mantrell Smith as "Kal".
William Allen as "Lucas".
Director Sean Walton wrote and directed this fantasy/sci-fi super hero pilot for Alpha Medics Productions.
Filmed on location at New York's Coney Island on a cold and rainy day, Alpha Medics optimized their resources on a limited budget to create a fantasy world of super powered mystic beings. All VFX were supervised on set by Aldo Romero utilizing on location green screen photography. 2D Compositing VX created using Adobe After Effects in combination with 3D elements created in Autodesk 3D Studio Max and SideFX Houdini. Post-production Editing was done using Final Cut Pro X. The streaming pilot is currently negotiation for distribution.
For more information on this series go to:
https://www.instagram.com/theelementusnetworkllc/
Mancinetti Pictures
Our hero, before the space dust.
Our hero, after the space dust.
Space Dust, short film directed by Jon Mancinetti .
Life's Work, directed by Jon Mancinetti .
Not A Star, music video directed by Jon Mancinetti .
Symbiotic Film successful collaboration with Mancinetti culminated in the completion of 4 projects.
VFX Supervision for Space Dust resulted in the spectacular space warp scene using dense 2D compositing that is reminiscent of the trip sequence in 2001 a Space Odyssey. Motion Graphics and animation elements created the visuals for the music video, “Not a Star” for artist Dan T. Utilizing Type Monkey AE script tool to create the the animated text, the lyrics were animated to the beat of the music. Complex layer nesting in After Effects compositions created the creepy looking digital avatar in the short film, Life's Work.
For more information on Mancinetti Pictures go to:
https://www.instagram.com/mancinettipics/
The Probe
Key promo adv for The Probe.
