{"id":1915,"date":"2020-03-03T12:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T12:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/?page_id=1915"},"modified":"2023-08-15T16:05:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T16:05:18","slug":"special-guests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/special-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column]      <div class=\"heading-block heading-64a6e265f49ce tal h-h2\">\n                  <h2 class=\"h\">Online Special Guests<\/h2>\n              <\/div>\n    [vc_single_image image=&#8221;17339&#8243; img_size=&#8221;450&#215;600&#8243; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; title=&#8221;Melissa Tittl&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Melissa Tittl<\/strong> had\u00a0<span class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\">a career in production, writing and directing as an investigative journalist. As Head of Content and Development for Gaia, she wrote and developed new story concepts into an expanding, global market.Also wrote and produced TV shows for major networks (Paramount Studios, Netflix, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, among other high-profile networks). Some examples are Ancient Aliens, The Universe, Hangar One and Ancient Civilizations, Chelsea Does on Netflix.\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"sqsrte-large\"><span class=\"sqsrte-text-color--custom\">But after over a decade in the entertainment industry, she felt the studios were producing the same material by asking the wrong questions. Hathor Studios was founded by her to bring new consciousness and find new solutions to the issues plaguing society. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17336&#8243; img_size=&#8221;450&#215;600&#8243; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; title=&#8221;Louis Savy&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>Louis\u00a0 Savy<\/strong> is Director and Founder of London Sci-Fi fim festival. He started the festival for selfish reasons, namely to see new, indie, international science fiction film in the cinema.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 20 years on, he still gets super-excited when our submissions open and the latest material starts flooding in.\u00a0 \u00a0 Acting as the main contact, programmer and face of the festival, Louis is living the dream\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17440&#8243; img_size=&#8221;450&#215;600&#8243; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; title=&#8221;John Vaugham&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><strong>John Vaughan<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector\/Co-Writer: \u00d3r na Banr\u00edona ( The Queens Gold)<\/p>\n<p>As well as being an award winning short film maker and<br \/>\nscreenwriter, John was the first person get a science<br \/>\nfiction drama pilot on the Irish National Broadcaster RT\u00c9 in<br \/>\nit&#8217;s sixty year history. In 2009 John founded of The Golden<br \/>\nBlasters Film festival, which for the next decade was the<br \/>\nonly short film festival in Ireland dedicated to the genres<br \/>\nof Horror, Science Fiction and Fantasy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&#8221;17339&#8243; img_size=&#8221;450&#215;600&#8243; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221; title=&#8221;Melissa Tittl&#8221;][vc_column_text] Melissa Tittl had\u00a0a career in production, writing and directing as an investigative journalist. As Head of Content and Development for Gaia, she wrote and developed new story concepts into an expanding, global market.Also wrote and produced TV shows for major networks (Paramount Studios, Netflix, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":64,"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17441,"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1915\/revisions\/17441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/festival.galactic.one\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}