The never changing face Yllke Gashi Fahrije is struggling with life. Her husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo. As sh...
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Mother Schmuckers (2021) Sundance 2021
Two incredibly stupid brothers lose their mother's dog. They are given 24 hours to get him back or else they are out on the street. Th...
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The Animation First 2021 Curtain Raiser
Over the last four years ANIMATION FIRST has become of one the hidden treasures of the film festival season. Highlighting a whole bunch of...
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At The Ready (2021) Sundance 2021
Portrait of the Criminal Justice Club at Horizon High School in El Paso Texas, The club seeks to teach the kids what it’s like to be a pol...
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Thoughts on The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021) Sundance 2021
Portrait of actor Bojrn Andresen who exploded on the scene when he was 15 an starred in Visconti’s A Death in Venice. Visconti called him...
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Sky Sharks (2021)
I am tempted to just walk away from film reviewing forever because on some level I have seen the perfect film. I mean it is high concept, ...
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Escape Studios Houdini Certified School
Escape Studios is proud to announce that we are now an approved Houdini Certified School. Houdini is a 3D animation software applicati...
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Brief thoughts on Try Harder! (2021) Sundance 2021
Portrait of the senior class of Lowell High School in San Francisco who are the best of the best. Its a place where super geniuses struggl...
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CRYPTOZOO (2021) Sundance 2021
CRYPTOZOO begins with the recounting of a dream abut storming the capitol and taking it over and forming a world where we all can live i...
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RITA MORENO: JUST A GIRL WHO DECIDED TO GO FOR IT (2021) Sundance 2021
What I love about this bio of Rita Moreno is that for a couple of minutes it seems to be going a typical Hollywood bio, and then it tur...
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SUMMER OF SOUL (…OR, WHEN THE REVOLUTION COULD NOT BE TELEVISED) (2021) Sundance 2021
While Woodstock was going on in Upstate New York for three days The Harlem Artss Festival was was happening in park in Manhattan. A ser...
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In The Same Breath (2021) Sundance 2021
Nanfu Wang's IN THE SAME BREATH is a look at the Covid Crisis in China and to some degree in the United States. It begins with the hug...
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Playing With Sharks (2021) Sundance 2021
"These camera men had these giant housings mad of metal and I had a stick" - Valerie Taylor on the filming of BLUE WATER WHITE ...
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Introducing "Little Gestures"
Meet "Little Gestures" , the latest short film created by our students at Escape Studios, as part of the VFX project PR6001, in w...
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In The Earth (2021) Sundance 2021
During a pandemic a ranger takes a scientist into the woods to bring equipment to a scientist working in isolation. In the middle of the n...
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Rebel Hearts (2021) Sundance 2021
The Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary Is an order of nuns in Southern California. In the second half of the 20th century many of th...
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Brief thoughts on Son of Monarchs (2020) Sundance 2021
A Mexican biologist living in New York returns home to attend his grandmother's funeral. As he reconnects to his family, the past a...
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Coda (2021) Sundance 2021
By the time I saw Siรขn Heder's CODA I had seen over a hundred films in the 29 days that made up January. I say that because I want you...
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Censor (2021) Sundance 2021
The during 1980's video nasties debate in England a film censor runs across a film that mirrors the the tragic events that happened to...
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Human Factors (2021) Sundance 2021
I'm not going to say a whole lot about HUMAN FACTORS. It's not that there is anything bad, in fact the film is on my must see film...
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❄ Enjoy the last of Winter Movies, the "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" marathon, & more this weekend!!! ๐๐
Everybody ready for the weekend? It's incredible to think it's already the end of January, isn't it? Here where we live in th...
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Wiggle Room (2021) Sundance 2021
An injured young woman tries to get her money from a shady insurance salesman. Sweet little drama has a perfect sense of life in it. Wh...
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Up At Night (2020) Sundance 2021
“As dusk fades and another night without electricity falls, Kinshasa's neighbourhoods reveal an unstable environment of violence, pol...
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Romantic Chorus (2021)
ROMANTIC CHORUS is an animated documentary about love, relationships and sex. Constructed from a series of interviews done with people from...
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Seeds of Deciet (2021) Sundance 2021
This is the story of Jan Karbaat a fertility doctor in the Netherlands who was found out to have impregnated more than 65 of his patients ...
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One For The Road (2021) Sundance 2021
I am going to be honest- I don't know what I think of ONE FOR THE ROAD. Actually I do know, I love the film but I am not certain to w...
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Noting Touch of the Master's Hand (2021) Sundance 2021
A Mormon Missionary has to come clean about his porn addiction to one of his bosses. It happens from time to time but here is a short f...
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Souvenir Souvenir (2021) Sundance 2021
Bastien Dubois attempts to come to terms with what may or may not have happened during the time his grandfather was fighting in Algerian W...
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Snowy (2021) Sundance 2021
Snowy is the story of a turtle that was purchased by a family 24 years ago and is still going. Unfortunately he seems depressed. Is there...
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Doublespeak (2020) Sundance 2021
A woman who has filed a sexual harassment complaint finds her story twisted and her world upended by the people investigating it. Tens...
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Remembering Actress Cloris Leachman...
Sadly, legendary film and TV actress, Cloris Leachman, passed away on January 27, 2021. She was born on April 30, 1926 and lived to be 94...
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Three Sundance Shorts GNT, THE FOURFOLD and THE AFFECTED
Brief word on three short films playing Sundance, all recommended. GNT Wicked and wickedly funny animated film about things that most wo...
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When We Were Bullies (2021) Sundance 2021
There is a point about five minutes in where WHEN WE WERE BULLIES hooks you. Its a moment where the director and a friend relate coming...
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Celebrate ๐ Christmas in January ๐ with 5 Christmas Classics on TV including ๐ "A Glenbrooke Christmas" ๐ with Autumn Reeser & Antonio Cupo! SEE HERE: ๐๐
If you have all three Hallmark networks, you can potentially see 5 Christmas classics this week - from Thursday to Saturday! One of the ...
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QC Animations Webinar
On Tuesday 26 January we hosted a webinar with Escape Studios' animation student Charlotte Gimbird, about her YouTube Channel QC Anima...
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