Author: Madelyn

  • FILMMAKER MIXER’S CHEERS TO PFCAT

    Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology runs from August 21-25! Please show support by checking out the wonderful slate of Official Selections curated by the festival. For questions about the festival or its screenings, please direct them to PFCAT’s general email.  [email protected] For tickets, see link* below. -Melody, Filmmaker Mixer Producer *not an affiliate link Read more

  • BLOOM IN

    BLOOM IN

    Bloom In was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast’s offer to review their work. It is a 3D animated short film about an insecure cactus who learns about the beauty within herself. The script is charming and has a poetic… Read more

  • VORTEX

    VORTEX

    Vortex was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast’s offer to review their work. It is a live action short film consisting of various drone shots over the Australian outback. These gorgeous shots often include footage of twisters forming in the air… Read more

  • THE HUMAN FOSSIL

    THE HUMAN FOSSIL

    The Human Fossil was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast offer to review their work. It is a 2D animated short film about what appears to be a strange alien creature wandering a barren wasteland on Earth, and observing forgotten… Read more

  • SER UNO (BEING ONE)

    SER UNO (BEING ONE)

    Ser Uno (Being One) was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast offer to review their work. It’s a live action short film about a young man who works at a library, dresses like a mime and doesn’t talk. The film… Read more

  • THE GREAT ANNUAL PARTY OF THE CREATURES OF THE MOON

    THE GREAT ANNUAL PARTY OF THE CREATURES OF THE MOON

    Le Grand Party was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast’s offer to review their work. It is an animation created on a pinscreen about strange creatures on the moon coming out after humanity has left it and having a party. Pinscreens, to those… Read more

  • HUNKY DORY

    HUNKY DORY

    Hunky Dory was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast’s offer to review their work. It is an animated short film that consists of a psychedelic series of morphing images that seem to be linked by thematic ideas of life, death,… Read more

  • EATING 38 CHEESEBURGERS

    EATING 38 CHEESEBURGERS

    Eating 38 Cheeseburgers was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast’s offer to review their work. It is a live action short film about the content on the internet. It is a postmodern, chaotic dystopian nightmare of a short film that constantly disrupts your idea… Read more

  • LE CHARADE

    LE CHARADE

     Le Charade was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast’s offer to review their work. It is a stop motion animated short film about the falling out between a mime and their date. It’s funny, well written and incredibly well animated.… Read more

  • FORTUNE COOKIE

    FORTUNE COOKIE

    Fortune Cookie was one of the Official Selections from the Portland Festival of Cinema, Animation & Technology’s 2024 festival that accepted the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast offer to review their work. It is a stop motion short film about a fortune cookie headed man whose climb up a staircase in a dark and spooky room is interrupted by… Read more