New Idea 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 3D animated short film about a pencil, a camera, and a magnifying glass who go on a quest. It takes a figurative concept… Read more

Darwin the Dreamer 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 short, 3D animated adaptation of a children’s book of the same name. The story follows a little boy, Darwin, who is blind… Read more

The Kindness Within: A Journey to Freedom 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. This feature-length documentary follows Leon Logothetis, also known as “The Kindness Guy”, as he goes on a spiritual journey through… Read more

The Nectar Instead 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 stop motion animated short film about a talking fly who gets stuck on a fly trap and has an existential realization about its life.… Read more

Factory Drop 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 about a group of oppressed factory workers who live dull, dreary lives, who discover something that shakes their world if even just… Read more

The Faraway, Nearby 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.  The Faraway, Nearby focuses on Joe Weber, the first scientist to explore the detection of gravitational waves. It follows his devotion to his studies,… Read more

“Back to School” an episode of the 2D animated web series Om Nom Stories 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. I was shocked to see a familiar face; I actually grew up when Cut the Rope, the… Read more

Gamer 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 live action series of three short episodes about a young boy named Sam. Each of the three episodes focus on him treating a task… Read more

BASHA 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.  Basha is about two brothers exploring the wilderness. It’s visually stunning, with its own unique style. I couldn’t tell if the characters were animated in 3D,… Read more

Every Other Weekend 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 about two children who go camping with their father. It plays out like a series of loosely connected memories of the trip, small, cherished… Read more