2389: Coming Home script
Two humans, a scientist and a soldier from Martian colony, come to Earth destroyed by climate change and resource wars, to find out if it is livable once again; during the research they decide to alter their findings and prevent repopulation.
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Kateryna SazonovaWriter
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Project Type:Student, Short Script
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Genres:Sci-fi, drama, Eco
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Language:English
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First-time Screenwriter:Yes
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Student Project:Yes - Columbia College Chicago
Kateryna Sazonova is a Ukrainian filmmaker and environmentalist currently based in the USA. She is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago and earned her MFA in Film and TV Directing in 2023.
Before coming to the USA for her studies she had worked at a public TV channel Offener Kanal Magdeburg in Germany in 2019-2020, covering cultural and educational events across Germany, Poland and France as well as working on studio broadcast programs.
Prior to that she completed an intensive year-long course in Film and TV Directing at a major Ukrainian TV channel Inter in 2018 and worked as a staff and freelance video producer in Ukraine and across Europe.
She was involved in a variety of international film, digital and social ad projects and was a mentor of video production and visual storytelling at a number of international youth workshops.
Her first documentary short film Plastic (2018) on plastic pollution was screened at over 15 film festivals across the globe, and is now used for educational purposes.
Kateryna is a 2025 Emmy award winner for her public television work with WTTW / PBS Chicago.
I want to tell this story because I'm passionate about environmental activism and I believe films have great power to spark interest, inspire change and motivate for action. This is the kind of story I want to create. It is about reconnecting with nature, love and finding a place where one belongs.
2389: Coming Home is a sci-fi short film that explores the probable future of life on Earth in a scenario when climate change happens according to the worst of the scientific predictions and Earth becomes uninhabitable, humans must whether escape to a colony on Mars or stay on Earth to die. When the astronauts from the Martian colony come back to Earth centuries after the apocalypse, their findings pose a dilemma between preserving natural life on Earth or continuing to lead the consumeristic lifestyle, knowing what the consequences will be and repeating history.
The film utilizes nature’s ability to restore and thrive, as well as consequences of a major environmental crisis for humankind. It is an environmental tale, on a bigger scale the story highlights the possible consequences of the environmental crisis we are embarking on now, while on an individual level it explores the theme of finding a place of one’s belonging.
