Our brand new short film starring Jules Verne Jr is heading to the big screen! One of the coolest festivals we attended last year was Filmquest in Salt Lake and this year we're heading back! If you check out any film festivals this year, I'd would say: GO TO FILMQUEST! It's super awesome. Lots of great films, celebrities, and directors on hand to discuss the films themselves. Plus you get to hang out in Salt Lake and Park City!
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Our brand new short film, Around the World in 80 Days, is here! You can watch it right here on Naissance or over on our Vimeo in all of it's HD glory! So pop some pop corn, grab your favorite worldly beverage, click full screen mode, and travel the world with Jules Verne Jr.
Here's a first look at our upcoming short film, Around the World in 80 Days! We're ridiculously excited to start unveiling the world of Jules Verne Jr and his upcoming adventures!
One of our favorite moments in the upcoming short is the Nautilus, piloted by the infamous Captain Nemo! AND yes, we love 20,000 Leagues as well. Both novels make our short list for all time classics!
Here's the official synopsis:
Around the World in 80 Days: The brash, young Jules Verne Jr. has just decided to go around the world in 80 days to live up to the legacy of the books that have made his name world famous.
So, among other recent and giant sized events, we've also been hard at work with a roster of amazing artists and talent on a brand new short film! We are beyond excited to announce: AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS, a fully animated adaption of the classic Jules Verne novel from 1873.
Around the World in 80 Days is one of our favorite novels of all time! The works of Jules Verne have been a source of inspiration for a long time for us and we are beyond excited to start unveiling all the amazing art being created here at the studio!
More coming very soon!
The Umbrella Factory is going on tour! This year those in the state of Washington will have a bunch of great chances to check out The Umbrella Factory on the big screen along with a line up of other great films by some fantastic film makers! The festival is the Tri-City Intenrational Fantastic Film Festival.
The first showing is this weekend! February 13-15 in Pasco as part of RadCon!
Next up is the Seattle Crypticon Horror Convention May 23!
Then in August, as part of the 2015 Worldcon, August 17-20 in Spokane at the Sasquan International Film Festival!
Finally, the Official Tri-Cities International Fantastic Film Festival will take place in Richland October 16-18!
Our Macabre Trilogy is heading to Greece this March! That's right, our three short films: Haunting of the White Sparrow, Jack the Ripper, and The Umbrella Factory are all heading off to the Mediterranean as part of the upcoming Motion International Festival!
As part of the International Festival of screenings, the Motion Festival of Cypress is celebrating the very best of Motion Graphics, Music Videos, Commercials, Opening Titles, 3D Mapping, CGI, and Broadcast Design.
For more information on the showtimes and the other absolutely amazing films playing check out the official website right here:
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!
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!
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!
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