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

Vines 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 short film about a mad botanist who has interesting plans for the plants he is raising. It’s an intense story that… Read more

Canelo 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 wonderful animated short film based on the true story of the titular Canelo, a dog whose unwavering loyalty to his owner stands as a… Read more

Tennis, Oranges 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.  Tennis, Oranges is as moving as it was unpredictable.  This short, animated feature follows a small robotic vacuum and two rabbits. I was charmed by… Read more

The Tin Woods 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 inspired by the children’s novel, The Tin Woodman of Oz. The way the story in The Tin… Read more

Warhol 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 feature length film that follows three main plotlines: a radio show host who is slowly losing his mind, a homeless man who gets… Read more

Dragonfly 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 very emotional and heartfelt animated short opens with a young girl chasing a dragonfly, takes a sad turn and covers a historical incident that I… Read more

Marble Me Free 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 visual story to a poem. A woman encounters a large marble block and needs to figure out a way to deal with it.  I liked the… Read more

Sileo 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 3D animated short film is about a robot who has been working for years in a factory. The nature of the robot’s work requires that… Read more