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In 19 Peel Street, award-winning animator/technical director Stephan Kozak intertwines
reality and fantasy in this most unique 3-minute Quicktime trip through the imagination. |
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Brian Taylor has created perhaps one of the most unusual and endearing animated characters since Steamboat Willie. See stills and scenes from
his work-in-progress, Rustboy. |
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When Director Sam Balcomb (June 2001 artist) posted the much-anticipated trailer for his
film Ancanar on his website, he had half-a-million hits in two hours, which closed down the server. It was then hosted on ifilm.com and became the #2 most-downloaded short on the
site. See it here. |
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What Dreams May Come and Somewhere in Time producer Stephen Simon is the leader of a new movement called “Spiritual Cinema,”
with films that illumine and inspire individual and social transformation. In this context, spiritual refers not to religion but to the unseen divine essence that is life force itself.
Simon’s new film Indigo was shot in 20 days for $500,000 and won the Audience Choice Award at the 4th Annual Santa Fe
Film Festival. |
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This Johnny Walker commercial is too good not to share — it’s one of the most intriguing and imaginative items we’ve seen
in a long time. From the people at Framestore CFC, whose portfolio includes
work on such films as Cold Mountain, Love Actually, and Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. |
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The controversy of Mel Gibson’s The Passion has stirrred up an array of feelings and opinions from Juneau to Jerusalem. Here are
two viewpoints from Stephen Simon (producer of Somewhere in Time and What Dreams May Come) and TheScreamOnline
writer Danusha Goska. |
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Gabriel Yared spent a year composing and recording the score for Troy, using a full
orchestra and choir, only to have it replaced six weeks before the film opened. |
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What Dreams May Come and Somewhere in Time producer Stephen Simon is the leader of a wildly-popular new movement called Spiritual
Cinema Circle, which promotes uplifting films with positive messages, delving into such topics as life after life, enhanced powers and sensibilities, reality and time, visionary romance
and adventures, and the power of love. |
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Filmmakers Sam Balcomb and Jesse Soff teamed up to create The Ore, a million-dollar-looking
Sci-Fi film shot for only a few thousand clams. |
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Kumbh Mela is a phenomenon that happens every 12 years in India on the Ganges River. Filmmakers Maurizio Benazzo and Nick Day captured the
2001 event in Short Cut to Nirvana. |
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Danusha Goska reviews the PBS production Jane Eyre, with illustrations by
Fritz Eichenberg. |
