Ariela Rubin on TIGRE GENTE (2021) which opens Friday

Tigre Gente is a documentary that primarily takes place in Bolivia, in Madidi National Park. Madidi National Park is the most biodiverse p...
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Rise of the Engines - Real Time on 5 Dec 2021

Animation in real time Sunday 5 Dec 2021 Join Escape Studios' Michael Davies and St John Walker for a panel talk on "Anim...
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Badland Doves (2021)

  When bad men break into the Silva's family cabin and kill everyone except young Regina they set in motion a plot for revenge. When ...
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Petroc Menuhin Animator at Freefolk

Petroc Menuhin Many congratulations to Escapee Petroc Menuhin who has started work as an animator at FreeFolk VFX in Soho . ...
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Torn(2021) opens Friday

17 years after Alex Lowe was killed by an avalanche in a climbing accident, his body was found in the snow. In the wake of the discovery h...
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Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema Returns to Jacob Burns Film Center Dec. 7-9

  New York, November 29, 2020 —  Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema is proud to present a compact showcase of the 16th edition of Making W...
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Advent Calendar (2021) hits Shudder December 2

 A wheelchair bound young woman who was once a dancer is given an Advent Calendar. If she does what the calendar asks each day and follows...
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Amarok Wins Hon Mention at Horror Island

Amarok wins Horror Island Congratulations to the makers of  "Amarok" , which has won an Honourable Mention at the Horr...
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Citizen Ashe (2021) opens Friday

Arthur chose to speak- what did you do?  Portrait of tennis great Arthur Ashe that doesn't focus just on his tennis but the course h...
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A note on Flash Forward at The Japan Society

The Japan Society’s Flash Forward : Debut Works and Recent Films by Notable Japanese Directors starts Friday and it’s a super series show...
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DOC NYC 2021; Short notes on 12 films and 1 series

I watched a lot of DOC NYC films in a short amount of time.  I think it's a sign of a disease of some sort - but I digress. Because ...
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Adam & Eve Mk II Best Animated Short LIMPA

Adam & Eve Mk II wins Best Animated Short at LIMPA Many congratulations to Sebastian Kuder, director of  " Adam & Eve...
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Four Shorts: TIKKUN OLAM THE CAT,MEMENTO MORI and HER SONG

  HER SONG Absolutely stunning short film that is nominally the story of why the banshee cries. Its actually the story of the unwed moth...
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DOC NYC Capsules: FILM THE LIVING RECORD OF OUR MEMORY,THE PHOTOGRAPH, and THE MAN WHO PAINTED WATER DROPS

FILM THE LIVING RECORD OF OUR MEMORY An excellent celebration of film restoration and preservation  that highlights and celebrates the ma...
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Jelly Cars Best Cinematography Halicarnassus

Jelly Cars wins Best Cinematography at Halicarnassus Escape Studios is proud to congratulate animation tutor Lee Caller  whose sho...
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The Facility (2021) DOC NYC 2021

  The Facility is a heartbreaking look at life inside the Irwin County Correctional Center in Ocilla Georgia. It’s a private  facility be...
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WRITING WITH FIRE has hit theaters

 This is the story of the a group of Dahlit women, a caste considered the lowest of the low,  who started their own newspaper. The film pi...
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Cartoon Museum "Laughter Lab" Opens

Last night was the opening of a new exhibition at London's Cartoon Museum, titled  Laughter Lab: What’s So Funny?, which seeks to ...
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A Tree of Life (2021) DOC NYC 2021

 A Tree of Life is a look at the Tree Of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh which was attacked in 2018 by a lone gunman who killed 11 people in ...
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Malignant (2021) Thanksgiving Turkey

James Wan returns to horror with a huge WTF disaster of a film that I might have enjoyed as a cheapo direct to video film that had a budge...
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