What a great way to start wrapping up the year! We just received our award for Around the World in 80 Days, the Presidents Award, for it's showing at the North Carolina Film Awards this year! We also just found out that The Umbrella Factory will be featured in the Journal of Short Film for it's annual release by Ohio State University!

2015 was a really great year for our short films and we're really proud of them and all the folks that helped make them happen!

Around the World - President’s Award North Carolina Film Awards

The Umbrella Factory - Journal of Short Film, Volume 36

This week, the Gold Coast International Film Festival kicks off with films by Morgan Spurlock, Richard Gere, Chloe Grace Moretz (the one and only Hit Girl!), Rene Russo, Oliver Platt, Jason Sudeikis, Rebecca Hall, Amber Heard, Christopher Walken and us, Nick and Lexie! That's right, not only will you see their amazing new films but you can also check out Around the World in 80 Days on the Big Screen this week in New York! There's also going to be some fantastic documentaries on Marlon Brando and Twisted Sister as well as Q&As! (Not to mention all of the other fantastic films and after parties!)

For more info you can check out the official website right here:

http://goldcoastfilmfestival.org

Our animated short film adaption of Around the World in 80 Days is returning to Hollywood for another screening! This November, if you'd like to see Jules Verne Jr hit the big screen again, you're in luck as it'll be screening as part of the Hollywood Weekly Magazine Film Festival which is kicking off the 2015 American Film Market!

So awesome.

The  Film Festival takes place Nov. 1st!

For more information head over to Hollywood Weekly:

http://www.hollywoodweeklymagazine.com

Want to catch our short film featuring that time bending monkey's paw on the big screen? Well this month there are a bunch of chances to do just that and we're adding another one. The Umbrella Factory will be returning to Arizona and screening at Loft Cinemas! They'll also be playing Psycho. So if you want a little Nick and Lexie with some classic Hitchcock, you're in luck!

The Festival takes place from October 21 - October 25.

For more information check out the official website right here:

https://loftcinema.com/event/loft-film-fest2015/#festfilmschedule

We're really thrilled that this October, Around the World will be heading to Oklahoma as part of the Red Dirt International Film Festival! This will be our second year with the RDIFF (we even snagged the Best Animation Award for The Umbrella Factory last year) and we couldn't be more proud!

The Film Festival takes place October 8-10.

For more information check out the official website right here:

http://www.reddirtfilmfestival.org

This October the monkey's paw will be heading home to the "Distant lands of India!" We're absolutely thrilled to be included in the International Film Festival of Shimla this year! The venues look incredible and we're over the moon to mark off another country (and this time a subcontinent as well) that our films have screened in internationally!

The festival will take place October 3rd.

For more information on the festival check out the official website right here:

http://www.iffs.in

We just found out we won the Best Professional Filmmaker Award at the Blue Plum Festival this summer! The Blue Plum Festival is a celebration of Art, Music, and Film and is held annually in Tennessee and had an amazing line up of films, we were just excited to be a part of it!

The festival took place this summer from June 5-7.

For more information, here's the official website:

http://www.blueplum.org

Next up, India, North Carolina, Oklahoma, New York, and Washington!

This Friday Night marks our 6th screening with the ever amazing Sacramento Film and Music Festival and our third year in a row! It's been amazing! The Umbrella Factory and Jack the Ripper both screened in 2013. Haunting of the White Sparrow followed in 2014. Now, our short film adaption of the Jules Verne classic, Around the World in 80 Days, will screen this weekend!

The festival takes place September 9 - 13.

For More Information check out the official website right here:

http://www.sacfilm.com

AND just a reminder, we're also playing in Southern California this weekend too! Around the World will be screening as part of the Burbank International Film Festival on Saturday!

http://www.burbankfilmfest.org

Around the World in 80 Days is heading to the star studded film festival on Catalina Island this year! The island, located just off the coast of Los Angeles, is just a quick boat, ferry, or yacht ride away. Rather than the typical LA traffic, everyone gets around the island on golf carts!

The festival takes place September 24 - 27.

For more information check out the official website right here:

http://catalinafilm.org

The super awesome Burbank International Film Festival is almost upon us and we just received word that we have been nominated for BEST ANIMATED SHORT for Around the World in 80 Days!

For more information on the festival and the other nominees for the rest of the fest, you can check out all of the official info right here!

http://www.burbankfilmfest.org/2015-nominees/

You've got two great chances to check out our brand new short film Around the World in 80 Days this weekend! (You just need to be in Oregon or Ireland)! BUT if you are in one of those fine places and enjoy heading over to film festivals to take in an afternoon or evening of wonderful cinema, check out the We Like'Em Short Film Festival or the Underground Film Festival this weekend!

Here's the details below:

Underground Film Festival (Ireland)

http://www.undergroundshortfilmfestival.com

We Like'em Short (Oregon)

http://www.welikeemshort.com

This September, our awesome short film "Around the World in 80 Days" is heading to Rome! Rome, Georgia that is. The Rome International Film Festival has been selected as one of the top 20 Film Festivals in Movie Maker Magazine and we couldn't be more excited to be a part of this year's line up!

The festival takes place at the beautiful and historic DeSoto Theatre built in 1927, the first theater in the south to screen talkies!

The films, programs and workshops will be taking place September 10-13, 2015.

For more information, check out the official website right here:

http://www.romeinternationalfilmfestival.com

Our short film, The Umbrella Factory has taken the top honors at the North Carolina Film Awards this summer! Official laurels are on their way for the Founders Award, the top prize offered by the NCFA.

Here's the official word on the festival:

The Mission of the North Carolina Film Awards is to strengthen the independent film, television and video industry. The NCFA shall identify and recognize an array of talented filmmakers and their movies from across the state, region, nation and the world. Features and shorts, are welcome at the North Carolina Film Awards, bringing in the widest array of artists from different disciplines.

Around the World is crossing the Atlantic again! First London, then Vienna, and now Cork, Ireland!

We have a very special place in our hearts for the Underground Film Festival. Not  only does it take place in the beautiful city of Cork, but this will also be our 4th film to attend their wonderful film festival and we couldn't be more proud! Not only that, but our first short film, Little Red Riding Hood (which was a mixture of animation and black and white photography shot in Sierra Nevada) played in their very first festival!

Cut to 2015 and now Around the World is heading there as well!

The festival takes place August 22 - 29th

For more info check out the official website right here:

http://www.undergroundshortfilmfestival.com

We're really honored to have an award nomination double feature! Both The Umbrella Factory and Around the World in 80 Days have been nominated for awards in North Carolina! North Carolina has become a center for filmmaking over the last few years with tons of television series produced there as well as on-location filming. The North Carolina Film Awards is a national awards program that doesn't just recognize North Carolina filmmakers, but filmmakers from all around the world.

More information coming soon!

Until then check out the official website right here:

http://www.enoawards.org

http://www.enoawards.org/#!/n-c-film-award

Big news for our short film Around the World in 80 Days! This September the film will return to Hollywood as part of the amazing Burbank International Film Festival! The festival, now in it's seventh year, has some amazing galas, dinners, parties, and screenings coming up! Last year the film festival also celebrated some amazing industry folks as well such as Shane Black (Iron man 3), Brenda Chapman (Brave) as well as designer Neville Page (Oblivion and Avatar)!

There will also be a special 30th anniversary screening of the "timeless classic" Back to the Future!

The Festival takes place September 9th - 13th

For more information, check out the official website:

http://www.burbankfilmfest.org

Heading back across the Atlantic, Jules Verne Jr is actually starting to go around the world! Not only has Around the World in 80 Days been playing in Salt Lake City, New York, Oregon, Tennessee, Seattle, and London, but it's now heading off to Vienna as well! The Vienna Short Film Project will be playing international shorts throughout the city!

Official Details coming soon!

Jules Verne Jr is heading to the Northwest as our short film, Around the World in 80 Days, makes it's way up to Oregon! The film festival with the lovely name, We Like 'Em Short, is a festival held every year aimed at celebrating short films, animation, and comedies.

The film festival takes place August 20 - 23.

We Like Em Short, Official Website:

http://www.welikeemshort.com

As part of the Gold Coast Summer Screenings, The Umbrella Factory returns for an encore showing! We were over the moon to be a part of the Gold Coast Film Festival last year and it's even more exciting to have a follow up screening!

So, if you're in New York and want to see a bunch of great films on the big screen this summer, including our macabre short about three unlucky brothers, check it out!

For more information visit the official link here:

http://goldcoastfilmfestival.org/summer-shorts/

We are absolutely thrilled to announce that Around the World will be screening as part of this year's San Antonio Film Festival! The festival, now celebrating it's 21st year is famous not only for it's amazing selection of films but also its after parties and free beer (whaaaaaaaat?)

The Festival takes place July 29th - Aug 2nd

For more information check out the official website right here:

http://safilm.com