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!

http://www.sacfilm.com

Next up, the Umbrella Factory heads to Hollywood and will be playing at the legendary Chinese Theater. The film is an official selection as part of the Hollyshorts produced by the ever awesome Daily Motion. The festival takes place August 14 - 23 and we can't wait!

Here's the website with all the details about the upcoming Festival as well as really cool recaps from last year's awesome line up!

http://hollyshorts.com

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

http://www.sacfilm.com

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:

http://www.reddirtfilmfestival.org

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:

http://www.thefilmfestivalguild.com/#!baff2014/cqr

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

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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:

http://www.edinburghshortfilmfestival.co.uk

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:

http://www.filmquestfestival.com

https://www.facebook.com/filmquestfestival

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 ;-)

http://www.hollywoodweeklymagazine.com

We just found out that the Umbrella Factory has been chosen as an Official Selection for the American Online Film Awards! That is effin awesome! Super excited! The American Online Film Awards take place in New York and should be going live sometime this week or next!

You can learn more here at their really (really) nice site:

https://www.americanonlinefilmawards.org

Wow. Just. Wow. Our films, Haunting of the White Sparrow and The Umbrella Factory are both heading to Seattle as part of the Seattle True Independant Film Festival! That's right! Another Naissance Double-Feature! STIFF is a super cool festival and we can't wait!

You can check out the official website right here: http://trueindependent.org

We are over the moon excited that the Umbrella Factory and Haunting of the White Sparrow are both heading to London! That's right, a Naissance Double-Feature! The films are playing as part of the ridiculously cool London Independent Film Festival this April! We are so excited to be part of the Official Selection! It's pretty cool to be a part of a festival that boasts "Showcasing the Best of Indie Filmmaking from the United Kingdom and around the World."

You can check out the official website right here: http://www.liff.org

We're super excited to announce that our short film, The Umbrella Factory, is heading to another film festival!! The film will be playing as part of the TMFF 2014 in Florida. The festival is taking place at the beautiful and historic Meighan Theatre in New Port Richey.

For more details on the festival, please check out their website right here!

www.tmfilmfest.com

Our short film we shot in a cornfield splattering fake blood all around will be playing this weekend in Long Beach! Haunting of the White Sparrow will be part of the RIP Horror Film Festival and we couldn't be more excited!

Also, the super talented Jon Hunt just sent us a painting of the White Sparrow himself! It's beautifully detailed and f****ing rocks!

For more on Jon, check out his blog right here:

http://huntillustration.blogspot.com

Super excited to announce that the Umbrella Factory just finished playing in Serbia! Our short film about three unlucky brothers played as part of the 17th International Video Festival, Videomedja!

The Festival kicked off November 29th and continued through December 1st.

For more information on the festival and the round up of other great international films check out the site:

http://videomedeja.org

Super excited to announce that our latest short film, Haunting of the White Sparrow, will be heading to Long Beach California as part of the RIP Horror Film Festival! The festival itself looks like it's loads of fun and there will be tons of great (and terrifying) films playing!

The festival kicks off December 6, 2013!

RIP Horror Film Festival: http://www.riphorrorfilmfest.com/news/full-film-schedule

The Aesthetica Film Festival (ASFF) is kicking off in York right now! The festival boasts some of the most beautiful venues a film festival could have with tons of great locations around the city. We're stoked to have our short, The Umbrella Factory, playing there as the festival kicks off this week!

For more information on the festival: http://www.asff.co.uk

Our short film, Haunting of the White Sparrow, just joined the Vimeo Line Up for Spooky Halloween films! Check out the super fun and super awesome collection of Spooky Films on Vimeo right now to get yourself in the Halloween Spirit!!

Happy Halloween!

Vimeo:https://vimeo.com/twerkedtodeath