Tomorrow we'll be at the Napa Film Festival for a screening of The Umbrella Factory as well as a potential Q&A afterwards. If you're interested in watching some great films, spotting a few celebrities, and drinking some fantastic wine, it should be a great afternoon!
Here's the information and showtimes on the site:
Stoked to find out that we just won the Audience Choice Award at the Open Wound Film Festival! I'm not sure if people still say they're stoked, but we are totally stoked! (Maybe it's totes stow now, I don't know).
The Open Wound Film Festival is a festival held shortly before Halloween and is part of the Santa Fe Comic Con!
We're excited to find out that The Umbrella Factory has just been nominated for best Animated Short of the year at the The Short Film Awards this December! The film, narrated by the super talented James Brinkley, has had an amazing run this year playing both Internationally and across the States. The most recent screenings have been at the ever impressive Gold Coast and Ojai Film Festivals as well as taking a special audience award at the Holly Shorts Film Festival in Hollywood!
Next up is the Napa Film Festival here in Northern California, kicking off tomorrow night!
For more information on the nom check out the official website right here:
It's a big couple of months for Film Festivals! Not only is The Umbrella Factory heading to Napa and Long Island, but the Umbrella Factory is now also heading to the ever awesome Ojai Film Festival in Southern California! If you've never been to the picturesque Ojai Valley, this is a great opportunity. You can hang out in this beautiful historic town all day and watch The Umbrella Factory. Win win if you ask me.
The Festival takes place: Nov. 6th - 10th
Here's the official Website:
The Umbrella Factory is heading back to the East Coast as part of this year's Gold Coast International Film Festival! The Gold Coast, as noted by the festival, was first made famous and now legendary as the locations for East Egg and West Egg in "The Great Gatsby."
Speaking of the Great Gatsby, Catherine Martin (Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, Romeo + Juliet, Australia -- and personal hero) will be there opening night as part of the Film Festival Artist of Distinction Award.
The Festival takes place: Nov. 3rd - 9th
We are really thrilled to be a part of the festival! For more information check out their official website:
What's better than heading to an awesome film festival? An awesome film festival with lots of wine! The Umbrella Factory will be an Official Selection in this year's prestigious Napa Vally Film Festival! We can't wait.
The festival takes place at some super cool venues all through Napa, Yountville, St. Helena, and Calistoga.
Some of the folks attending are Kevin Costner, Mike Myers, Shailene Woodley, Michelle Monaghan, and Naissance of course!
The Festival takes place: Nov. 12th - 16th
More info right here on the official website:
We just received our official laurels for the Open Wound Horror Film Festival! These laurels are some of the coolest we have ever seen, they rank up there with the Film Quest Cthulhu Laurels from Salt Lake City that we received this last summer (check those out if you haven't seen them, they're awesome). The festival takes place in lovely Santa Fe New Mexico during the Santa Fe Comic Con!
The Festival takes place: Oct. 24th -26th
Check out the official website here:
Or their facebook right here:
Tonight kicks off the prestigious San Diego Film Festival! The Umbrella Factory is playing this Saturday amongst a ton of ridiculously amazing films which open for The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch, Kiera Knightly and Mathew Goode!
The Umbrella Factory also just took the award for Best Animated Film at the Red Dirt Film Festival! How cool is that!
Also, A Song for Naija, the documentary about life in Nigeria that we did the titles for, just took the Award for Best Short Documentary at the California Independant Film Festival!
For the showing this weekend, here's the full info:
San Diego Film Festival
Date: Saturday 27 September
Time: 4:00-5:30pm
Location: Reading Cinema, theatre 6
Tonight we'll be heading over to the Opening Night Ceremonies for the California Independant Film Festival! The Festival is located in Northern California at the Castro Theatre, the Orinda Theatre, and Rheem Theatre. We're heading over to hang out with the producers and directors for a Song For Naija which we created the main titles for!
Check out the official website right here:
Denzel Washington, Kiera Knightley, Benedict Cumberbatch, Hilary Swank, and The Umbrella Factory!!! What is this you ask? Why, it's the San Diego Film Festival! This September, The Umbrella Factory is making it's way down to the prestigious San Diego Film Festival and we are ridiculously excited.
In the past, some of the films that have premiered here have gone onto become huge, even sweeping the Oscars like Twelve Years a Slave and the Silver Lining's Playbook. Am I saying that The Umbrella Factory could be heading in the same direction? Fingers crossed. Fingers. Crossed.
We just found out Naissance has been nominated for several awards at a few of our latest film festival screenings! How frickin' awesome is that! We were nominated for best animated short last week at the super awesome Holly Shorts film festival down in Hollywood. We were also just informed that we are nominated for two awards at the upcoming Red Dirt Film Festival!
Holly Shorts
The Umbrella Factory - Nominated for Best Animated Short
Red Dirt Film Festival
Haunting of the White Sparrow - Nominated for Best Experimental / Art Form
The Umbrella Factory - Nominated for Best Animation
Hey there! We'll be heading up to Sacramento tonight as part of their 15th Annual Film Festival which we are stoked about! We've talked in the past how much we love and have been a part of the film festival in the past and are looking forward to it tonight as well! The Festival kicks off this evening at the historic Crest Theater downtown.
If you're in the area you should definitely come by! It's always a great evening!
The upcoming Sacramento Film and Music Festival has just told us that Haunting of the White Sparrow is part of the upcoming Official Selection! Over the years we've had a really special connection with the Sacramento Film Festival and couldn't be more excited! Our first time playing at the Crest, their fantastic cinema located in downtown Sacramento, was with Sensored, a film produced by the ever awesome Kevin and Jo Haskin. We created the opening titles for the suspense thriller and are still super proud of them to this day. That same year, our music video Grey also played to rave reviews.
The following year we attended once more for Rogue River, another stellar film produced by KeJo which we designed the titles for and even produced some of the visual FX with the ever awesome Josh Jones.
Last summer, both The Umbrella Factory and Jack the Ripper were Official Selections for the 2013 Film Festival and was part of an amazing selection of films.
So we couldn't be more excited to be part of the 2014 Official Selection, with Haunting of the White Sparrow!
Official Website
Another Naissance Triple Feature is coming up! Our Macabre Trilogy of Jack The Ripper, The Umbrella Factory, and Haunting of the White Sparrow are all heading out to Oklahoma as part of the September International Film Festival!
We're really proud of these short films as they have screened around the world and collectively been in over 30 Film Festivals! This will be the third time you can catch all three of them playing together following the festivals in Seattle and Salt Lake City!
More information coming soon! Here's the link to the official website:
Both Jack the Ripper and the Umbrella Factory returned to Britain as part of the British Animation Film Festival! The line up this year was amazing and we are really proud to be a part of this year's roster! Naissance kicked off the first screening along with some truly remarkable animated films this year at the super awesome Empire Cinema in Leicester Square, London.
Here's the official website with this year's line up:
Up in Canada, at Shorts Non-Stop, we're really proud to announce that Jack the Ripper just placed in the Top Ten! With over 7500+ entries to the shorts fest, Jack the Ripper ranked number 6 out of all the online voting that took place. Big thanks for all the friends and votes that came in from you guys!
Here's a link to the site for more information: http://www.shortsnonstop.com
We're really excited to be a part of the Long Day Film Festival here in Northern California! The Umbrella Factory will be screening there on June 21st, the longest day of the year! The film festival tickets are on sale right now for a limited time, and if you buy soon you'll even get a free glass of wine at the event. Films. Summer. Wine. Awesome.
To find out more, check out: http://ldsf.tumblr.com
We just received word that The Umbrella Factory, our short film about three unlucky brothers, will be heading to Scotland as an official Selection of the Edinburgh Film Festival! I think that means that the film has now played in every part of the United Kingdom!
For more information check out their website right here:
We have to show off these awesome laurels we were just sent for the upcoming Film Festival in Salt Lake City, Utah! They are the coolest laurels we have ever seen! How awesome are these? Not only that, but the film festival, Film Quest just told us that all three of our latest films will be playing there. That's right, a Naissance Triple Feature!
The Festival is June 30th through July 5th and they will be playing The Umbrella Factory, Haunting of the White Sparrow, and Jack The Ripper!
The festival is set to be an extravaganza and we can't wait!
Here's more info on their official site and their Facebook pages:
The 2014 Film Festival of Hollywood Weekly Magazine has chosen The Umbrella Factory as an official selection! Couldn't be more excited about this! And not only will the film be showcased at the festival but also have critics publishing their reviews in the upcoming issue, which we're totally going to buy and then read with one hand over our face like a horror movie ;-)