The Portugues science fiction film “Collider” is one of the nominees for the International Digital Emmy Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. Into what is the third appointment of the producer beActive for prestigious awards, the Lusitanian feature film competes alongside creations from Japan, Australia and Brazil.

The ceremony for the awards held in Cannes on 7th April in the context of MIPTV, the world’s largest television event that distinguishes the best multiplatform content.

“Collider” is a finalist nominee for the category of Fiction, along with “Real Escape Game TV” from Japan “# 7DaysLater”, from Australia, and “Latitudes”, from Brazil. Despite being the third appointment of beActive for the Emmys, “Collider” is the first foray into producing the realm of science fiction and fantastic.

The first appointment happened to the “Final Punishment” series in 2010, and the second with the film “Beat Girl” last year. This year, “Collider” is the only Lusitanian representation in what is one of the biggest events of World audiovisual sector.

Based on experiments conducted at CERN, the Large Hadron Collider (where you found the Higgs Boson, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2013), “Collider” has passed by film festivals in London, Geneva and Galway. After debuting in the halls of national theater in November 2013 and in Ireland in January 2014, the film will now debut in the U.S., UK and Japan.

In response to the question “What would you do if you could go back in time?”, The action takes place in the year 2018, the year that the planet will collapse and the human species will be wiped out due to a succession of natural disasters and the emergence of a mutant breed nicknamed “the Unknown”.

Directed by Jason Butler Irish, the movie has the presence of Portuguese actors Marco Costa and Teresa Tavares in the leading roles, having been written by Nuno Bernardo, author and producer Portuguese already nominated for two Emmys and won several prizes at international level with “Sofia’s Diary”, “Final Punishment” and “T2 for 3” series.

The post-production of the film was entirely made in Portugal and the special effects of the film (72 plans in total) were also performed on Portuguese territory and supervised by Sérgio Azevedo.