Author: Madelyn

  • GARY

    GARY

    Gary 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 follows two contract killers, one of whom really hates the name Gary. It sort of feels like a tiny snapshot into the lives of these… Read more

  • THE PINTO VARIETY HOUR

    THE PINTO VARIETY HOUR

    The Pinto Variety Hour 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 the pilot episode to an adult-animated series of the same name. It works very well as a pilot, as I was… Read more

  • TESTIMONY

    TESTIMONY

    Testimony 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 student film about a young boy who claims to be best friends with a vampire. The writing is really good,… Read more

  • S

    S

    S 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. This animated short film uses both stop motion and 2D animation to give us an abstract portrayal of the interconnection between life and art. A live… Read more

  • BUCKETS CITY

    BUCKETS CITY

    Buckets City 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 an animated short film about two dudebro underdogs: a duck and a squirrel, who play basketball. The story is charming and entertaining the… Read more

  • ON THE RUN

    ON THE RUN

    On The Run is a feature length live action thriller about two sisters whose family turns out to have connections to a group of criminals. It is an action-packed and all-around solid film. There was never a dull moment within its 1 hour forty-minute run time. The plot had a lot of twists and turns, and… Read more

  • NINE STEPS TO AN EMMY 2024

    NINE STEPS TO AN EMMY 2024

    Over the next few months, we at the Filmmaker Mixer Podcast will be joined by three separate Emmy-nominated editing teams. Reviews about the episodes that they submitted for Emmys can be found in Short Sips, Quick Shot Film Reviews and include: Escaping Twin Flames, Episode 3, “Up In Flames”  which has been nominated for an Emmy for Best Picture Editing in… Read more

  • ESCAPING TWIN FLAMES, Episode 3, “Up In Flames”

    ESCAPING TWIN FLAMES, Episode 3, “Up In Flames”

    Escaping Twin Flames, Episode 3, “Up In Flames”  has been nominated for an Emmy for Best Picture Editing in a Nonfiction Program. The team nominated include: Martin Biehn, Lead Editor; Inbal B. Lessner, ACE, Editor; Mimi Wilcox, Editor; Kevin Hibbard, Editor; and Troy Takaki, ACE, Editor. This particular episode was fantastic and kept me on the edge of my seat… Read more

  • WELCOME TO WREXHAM, S2E15, “UP THE TOWN?”

    WELCOME TO WREXHAM, S2E15, “UP THE TOWN?”

    “Up The Town?” is the fifteenth and final episode of the second season of the documentary series Welcome to Wrexham. It has been nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Picture Editing for an Unstructured Reality TV Program. Boy, do editors, Michael Anthony Brown and Michael Oliver deserve that Emmy. They managed to take footage that was recorded as… Read more

  • ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, S3E8, “Sitzprobe”

    ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, S3E8, “Sitzprobe”

    “Sitzprobe” is the 8th episode of the third season of the live action series Only Murders in the Building. Shelly Westerman, ACE, Editor and Payton Koch, Editor, have been nominated for an Emmy in Outstanding Picture Editing for a Single-Camera Comedy Series. Watching the episode, I was quickly impressed by how the transitions between shots were… Read more