We're really excited to announce three more screenings of The Umbrella Factory! Our short film about three unlucky brothers heads out worldwide once again! The film will be playing in Australia, Serbia, and Spain!
And here's a fantastic article about the making of the Umbrella Factory on VFX Festival!
VFX Festival
http://www.vfxfestival.com/AEAF-News/the-umbrella-factory-comes-to-aeaf-2014
Now that our latest short film is out, we wanted to show you the Behind the Scenes! It was a hot day in September and our cast was in full Victorian masquerade costumes, charging through cornfields and getting their hands covered in sticky-red-corn-syrupy-stage-blood!
It also shows off some of the great masks and props too!
Our final short film for 2013, Haunting of the White Sparrow, has landed!
We are thrilled to cap off our Macabre Trilogy this year (it sounds really cool to call it that) with Haunting of the White Sparrow. The film itself follows the Umbrella Factory, our vintage retelling of W.W. Jacobs gothic tale, the Monkey's Paw, as well as our evening with Jack the Ripper.
Check out the first images from our upcoming short film, Haunting of the White Sparrow! Shot on location at Dutch Hollow.
So excited to announce our final short film of 2013!
Haunting of the White Sparrow!
We ran all over Northern California shooting locations, but the best part was the main shoot in a cornfield at Dutch Hollow with actors in vintage masquerade costumes and fake blood galore! Perfect for the fall season!
One of our favorite countries in the world, Ireland, is once again screening our short film, the Umbrella Factory! The screening will be part of the amazing Kerry Film Festival!
You can check out all the details about the Film Festival below:
Naissance is thrilled to announce that the Umbrella Factory will be joining the JAX Film Festival line up! The JAX film festival is in Jacksonville and is currently celebrating it's big 10 year mark!
You can check out all the details about the Film Festival below!
The Umbrella Factory just joined the roster of amazing films playing at the Tucson Film and Music Festival! This super great Film Festival takes place October 10-13 and is a must!
You can check out all the information below:
Tucson Film and Music Festival
http://tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com
Short Films
http://tucsonfilmandmusicfestival.com/events_category/short-films/
Thrilled to announce that our short film, The Umbrella Factory, will be heading back to the UK! First for a showing in London, followed by a showing at the end of the month in Leamington as part of the LAMP Festival! Then in November, The Umbrella Factory heads up to York as part of the ever impressive Aesthetica Film Festival!
You can check out all the details down below for all the Film Festivals!
Aesthetica Film Festival: http://www.asff.co.uk
Lamp Film Festival: http://leamingtonlamp.co.uk
Peckham Film Festival: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Peckham-Film-Open/315338218589163
Super-super excited to announce that our two latest short films, Jack the Ripper and The Umbrella Factory, will both be heading to Sacramento! The ever awesome Sacramento Film and Music Festival is one of our favorite local film festivals. The films play in the gorgeous vintage theater, the Crest, and the atmosphere is always perfect.
Details coming soon at: www.sacfilm.com
Thrilled to give a big HELLO to all of our friends in Ireland! Naissance is super excited to announce that our short film, The Umbrella Factory, will be making a second Festival Appearance! This time our adaption of W.W. Jacob's gothic classic the Monkey's Paw, heads off to Ireland as part of the Dare Film Festival!
Here's the details:
Absolutely thrilled that the Umbrella Factory will be playing live tonight in England! It'll be part of a sneak peak for audiences gearing up for the Leamington Film Festival where it plays again later this fall. To all of our friends in the area, if you're looking for something to do this evening, why not grab a pint of beer and watch some great films!
Here's the details:
Umbrella Factory will be playing on July 19th at Leamington's marvelous new LAMP venue between 7 pm - 11:30 pm
Our brand new short film is now online! As we follow the infamous killer on one of his evenings, we enter a world somewhere between Sin City and the opening titles of Mad Men.
We are really excited to announce our next short film, Jack the Ripper! Along with the Umbrella Factory released earlier this year, this is our second short that we've been working on. We're also really excited to be working with the super talented James Brinkley once again as he embodies the voice of the Ripper himself.
The Umbrella Factory was made of paper, cut outs, Victorian etchings that we printed out and cut and then scanned. Jack the Ripper, goes the opposite direction with some really beautiful 3D cities, models, and sets developed by some great 3D artists!
There was an approach we had been wanting to experiment with where we could use hand made paper cutouts and textures, scan them in and import them into After Effects and tell a story. We had been wanting to try it for years.
One cold morning in February while I was talking (or rather whining) to Nick about wanting to do a an awesome project that felt Tim Burton-Neil Gaiman-Jamie Caliri-Walt Disney Museum-(which you have to go to if you are ever in the Presidio of San Francisco) -sort of-look. He chimed in about what if we do “The Umbrella Factory,” the adaption he’d been working on of the Monkey’s Paw by W.W. Jacobs. It was then that we started talking about ideas in terms of what that world might look like and how best to pull it off...
Naissance is extremely excited to unveil our newest short film, The Umbrella Factory! The tale of three brothers and the traveller they meet who knocks on their door one evening and asks to come in out of the pouring rain.
Here's the official synopsis:
One evening, a traveller knocked upon the door of three brothers. Asking for a place to stay, as he has nowhere else to go, he offers them his magic talisman for payment in exchange for room and board to come in out of the pouring rain. What the brothers learn is that the talisman is capable of granting three wishes. But be careful what you wish for.
Based on the Horror Short Story, The Monkey’s Paw, by W.W. Jacobs.
Soooooo, we keep getting asked about that new film still on our website we let out of the bag a few weeks ago all suspiciously. Well, we're stoked to announce our new short film:
The Umbrella Factory!
It's a twisted little tale of Victorian paper cutouts, based on the gothic horror story of the Monkey's Paw by W.W. Jacobs.
One of the greatest films of all time is without a doubt the Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn classic, Charade. We’ve seen this movie about a million times. One of our dreams has always been to have directed the Opening Titles. So, hop in your time machines and let’s go!
Below are the Main Titles for Charade, as done by us.
And if you haven’t seen the original titles, go see this excellent movie! The original titles from 1963 by Maurice Binder are amazing! People have called this film “the best Hitchcock movie that Hitchcock never directed.”
Hello Ireland! Our film One Shot is part of this years official selection at the Underground Film Festival. It’ll be playing at the festival with a bunch of other dangerous sounding films! It’s going to be great! Guinness and popcorn! I suppose. Maybe it’ll just be Guinness.
The festival is from August 10th - 18th
One Shot is a film shot entirely in one shot. For more on the film you can check it out right here:
This last week we traveled over every inch of Northern California. We talked with creatives from every industry possible about what their lives are like. We chatted with animators, photographers, sculptors, musicians, filmmakers, fashion designers, painters, brand strategist, graphic designers, actors, producers, and more. But what we found were adventurers, matadors, zen masters, and people who are following their hearts. It was a pretty amazing week and we want to thank everyone who stopped by, helped out, told us their story, and invited us into their homes.
