Check out the brand new trailer for Tales From Black Manor, Series 2!
Return to the world of Black Manor, where the House of Black’s relentless pursuit of dark magic and their unwavering loyalty to Death himself come to life in Series 2.
And if you’d like to catch up on Tales From Black Manor, Series 1 - you can watch all 3 Episodes right here:
We’re thrilled to announce that both BackSpace and BackSpace Returns will be playing at the Universal Film Festival this week as a double feature!
Every year the Universal Film Festival takes place in a different country and a different city. Last year’s festival was held in Germany, where Tales from Black Manor took home the award for Best Horror Film!
This year’s festival will take place in Kansas City, Missouri. The event kicks off on September 28 with a Red Carpet and the Awards the following evening on September 29.
For more information on the Universal Film Festival make sure to check out their official site here:
Super cool and inspiring magazine and website, Bold Journey, just interviewed us about what keeps us creatively inspired!
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
“At the start of every year, we make a list of the impossible things we want for the year. These are things we really want to do but don’t know how to do them. They can be for our company, a direction we want to take our lives, or a personal impossible thing we’d like to do. That list goes at the top of our to-do list and we stare at it every day.”
”We let these impossible things percolate inside our heads and think of ways to accomplish them. Over the next 12 months, most of those things that seemed impossible at the start of the year, ended up not being so impossible after all. We slowly chip away at them. And a funny thing happens. Usually 9 times out of 10 we accomplish all those things we thought were impossible.”
You can read the full article on Bold Journey:
We’re excited to announce Tales From Black Manor, Series 2!
The first series introduced us to the world of Black Manor. A family whose lives intertwine with Death himself.
The first series is an anthology of 3 Films, “Legend Has It,” “The Book of Death,” and “How to Live Forever.” Series 2 will also feature several films, exploring new characters and even new time periods of Black Manor.
The first entry in Series 2, “Alice & The Watch,” will be released just in time for Halloween and kick off the spookiest season of the year. The second entry, “Mister Winter,” will be arriving in November, with the third film of Series 2, “The Land of Death and Dreams,” arriving in December.
We’re over the moon to invite everyone back to the world of Black Manor.
October 2023: “Alice & The Watch”
November 2023: “Mister Winter”
December: “The Land of Death and Dreams”
Just ahead of the Germany Premiere of BackSpace, the film has been nominated for the Linsh Award! The nominations are for International Films that present the Most Cinematic Vision.
With so many amazing films screening as part of the festival, its very cool to be nominated!
BackSpace will be screening twice at the Festival, the first on Sept. 19 and again on Sept. 23.
To learn more, make sure to check out the official site below.
BackSpace will be screening next at a film festival in Germany! The innovative Reels on Wheels, International Shorts on the Road Film Festival, is a fun new fest in Germany and features short films from around the world.
REELS ON WHEELS is an unconventional and independent take on Germany's cinema culture in the 21st century and a passionate attempt to re-connect people to cinema as one of the most power- and wonderful art forms we have.
Really excited to have BackSpace playing as part of the inaugural year for this festival! The event takes place September 16 in Hanover Germany.
To learn more, make sure to check out the official site below.
The Web Series Awards were this last week where both BackSpace and BackSpace Returns screened in competition. We couldn’t be happier to announce that we won Best Direction at the Awards!
We’re really over the moon and sent off a fun acceptance speech from B-Team, one of the film’s robots.
Huge thank you to everyone at The Web Series Awards!
If you haven’t already seen BackSpace and BackSpace Returns, you can can watch them both on the site here or over on Dust. AND be on the lookout for BackSpace Forever! The next - and final film - in the BackSpace Trilogy!
The very cool magazine and website, Canvas Rebel, interviewed us and the article just went live this morning. We were asked about what inspires us, staying creative, and taking vacations :)
Here’s an excerpt from the article:
We believe a super rewarding thing about being a creative is the fact you get to play in different worlds! One of our favorite things is to create worlds that don’t exist in real life or no longer exist since they are long gone or only exist in memory. It’s exciting to figure out what the terrain looks like in your world, what kind of characters live there, how do they interact, what kind of clothes do they wear, how do they get around? Sometimes it takes some back and forth but when you create (or discover) a world that speaks to you, there is absolutely nothing like it!
Read the full article on Canvas Rebel:
BackSpace and BackSpace Returns will both be screening at the Series Web Awards this week! The Awards and Film Festival take place August 23 - 24. The event will take place in Lima, Peru! The event is two unique days of audiovisual, video games, podcasts, web series, and digital animation from around the world.
BackSpace has been included and will be screened for an international jury voting on the best works from around the world for Web Series.
Really excited to be apart of such a cool festival.
For more information, make sure to check out the official site:
We’ve just completed having the Shorts Collection translated into 8 different languages as well as captions. Along with Around the World in 80 Days, Haunting of the White Sparrow, and Jack the Ripper, you can now watch The Umbrella Factory, One Shot, and Little Red Riding Hood in 8 different languages including: English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.
You can check out the films right here:
After translating BackSpace, BackSpace Returns, and the Tales from Black Manor series into 8 Different Languages, it was great to hear about the shorts being viewed around the world!
We’ve now decided to translate our original shorts collection as well! We’ve just finished the first 3 films in this collection. You can now watch Around the World in 80 Days, Haunting of the White Sparrow, and Jack the Ripper in English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.
You can check out the films right here:
BackSpace has been playing at different film festivals around the world this summer and we have one more to announce!
Our sci-fi film will be heading to Denver Colorado next and screening at the Digerati Festival (previously the Supernova Digital Animation Festival). Here’s the official statement from the Festival:
“We showcase works that embrace experimentation and break free from traditional conventions, venturing into uncharted territories of storytelling and aesthetics. The artists and filmmakers we feature embody the spirit of exploration, pushing boundaries of what is possible and redefining the very nature of artistic creation.”
The festival takes place September 14-17.
For more information, make sure to check out the official site here:
Along with BackSpace and BackSpace Returns, you can now watch our dark fantasy, horror series, Tales from Black Manor in eight different languages as well. We’ve seen lots of comments for this series that people want to share with friends around the world - well, now you can!
Depending on where you watch the series, it is now available in the following languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.
You can also watch all 3 episodes right here:
BackSpace Returns, the sequel to our sci-fi film BackSpace, can also be watched now in 8 different languages. So, if you’re looking to continue the adventure with Hunter and Mono or share this with friends around the world, now you can!
Here’s the updated languages that are now available with captions or subtitles: English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.
And if you want to watch it again right here on the site, now you can!
BackSpace, our award winning sci-fi film, can now be watched in 8 different languages! One of the comments that we see frequently is that fans of the film want to share it around the world. You can now watch BackSpace with captions or subtitles in the following languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Portuguese, and Russian.
And if you want to watch it again, right here, you can!
Really excited to announce that we’re now in production on our third film in our BackSpace Series! The third film is titled BackSpace Forever and completes the BackSpace Trilogy.
We grew up with trilogies. There was the Star Wars Trilogy, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, and the the Back to the Future Trilogy that really meant a lot to us. We were trained to think in 3s. What followed were even more trilogies such as Alien, Jurassic Park, the Matrix, and the Lord of the Rings. Many of these have even more sequels now - but early on there was always 3.
When we began work on the first sequel, BackSpace Returns, we began to envision a possible trilogy of adventures for Hunter and Mono exploring the far ends of the Universe and the distant reaches of BackSpace.
So, we’re really excited to announce this third film in the BackSpace trilogy - until we make that fourth movie that changes the rules.
We’ve had the opportunity to work with some absolutely amazing people these last few years! This reel is just a tiny sample of some of the cool projects we’ve worked on for Apple, The Oscars, Amazon, IBM, Harper Collins & HarperOne, Reflective Democracy, Expedia, Facebook, Meta, Amalgamated Foundation, Mission, Imaginary Forces, Mocean, and Google to name a few.
BackSpace Returns, the sequel to our award wining short film BackSpace, is the first sequel we’ve ever created. As creatives we are always excited about doing new things. Since we’d never written or directed a sequel before - it was really exciting to think about a continuation. One of the best parts of course is doing research into other sci-fi sequels.
BackSpace and BackSpace Returns are short films, we in no way want to say that this is like crafting a sequel to a feature - but what we did was analyze a lot of sequels that we enjoyed and tried to understand what we loved so much about them.
The first BackSpace is a really simple story. This was our first time jumping into Unreal Engine and we needed something small enough that we could wrap our heads around as we learned how texturing and lighting and just rendering were done in this software we’d never used. With this accomplished we started to discuss where else the story could go. Now that we could do even more this time around, we jumped in and started discussing the universe where this takes place. What are the rules of this world? And not just the fictional universe but the language of the film from the LUTs to the music to the sound design.
What we found in a lot of our favorite sequels, whether that’s Empire Strikes Back, Aliens, Back to the Future Pt. II, Terminator 2: Judgement Day or Blade Runner 2049, they expand the world in every direction but explored it through the eyes of the main characters. We get to go to new places and learn more about this thing that we already loved while staying true to the original. So that’s what we set out to do. Having these discussions and really digging in was an absolute blast.
The second thing that we really loved about a lot of sequels including The Matrix series and Star Wars series is that they end on cliff hangers. This tells you you’re no longer watching just a sequel, but that this is now part of a larger adventure. That was a really fun thing to come up with too! So with that said, enjoy BackSpace Returns and be on the look out for Part 3!
So excited to announce the next film festival in Europe! BackSpace will be screening next at an actual castle in Slovakia! The film festival takes place over two days and also includes a programs on film, music, theater, dance, photography and more all on the old medieval grounds of an actual castle. We’re thrilled that BackSpace will be screening under the stars at this amazing location.
For more information check out the official site here:
We have two more festivals to announce! BackSpace has just been invited to screen in Europe at two awesome venues! The first is Summer Film School, an incredible festival in the Czech Republic! The film festival features both classics and modern films as well as retrospectives, Q&As, programs, concerts and so much more to enjoy!
Make sure to check out this video recap from last year’s festival:
AND make sure to check out the official festival site here:
