Soulmate 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 live action short is phenomenal for many reasons. It is both moving and unpredictable. The very first scene shows us a man and a woman… Read more

Lês Bêtes 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 stop motion, with this really striking visual style. The puppets all look incredibly unique. They sort of remind me of the various items I would… Read more

Downwind 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 feature-length documentary is about the effects of nuclear fallout in Nevada throughout America that came as a result of testing nuclear bombs. It showcases several… Read more

Dandelion 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 story turned out to be quite sad, and I think the filmmakers did a good job making you really feel for the protagonist once you… Read more

“Biblionimus Maximus,” the fourth episode of the animated series Ada, 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 episode follows the titular Ada as she uses AI to help her write her resume and… Read more

The Burial of Natty Bumppo 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 abstract 2D animated short film, featuring a variety of elements that appear to hold some sort of symbolic weight, including a comet,… Read more

T-Minus 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. The film focuses on the story of an astronaut and his wife. The wife narrates the film with a story about him climbing a tree in his… Read more

Las Nogas 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 animated short, Las Nogas, has a uniquely whimsical, wholesome, and hopeful atmosphere. Las Nogas is set in a dry wasteland populated by strange creatures… Read more

History, Mystery and Odyssey 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 feature length documentary which tells the stories of six Portland animators: Jim Blashfield, Joanna Priestley, Rose Bond, Zak Margolis, Joan C. Gratz… Read more

Fulgores (Shimmer) 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 teenager and her little brother who live in a wasteland with their father. This film’s world… Read more