Director Lea Esmaili Joins Blinkink for UK Representation
November 21, 2024
Best of Stash 2023: Game Films!
The pressures of high-stakes marketing can often crush the chance for true creative experimentation in game trailers, but these six outstanding films prove that personality, passion, and playfulness are alive and well in the genre. [Watch]
Director Lucas Durkheim and Eddy Drop “Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown” Trailer
First-time director Lucas Durkheim, who started at Paris prodco Eddy as a storyboard artist after graduating from Gobelins and CalArts, fuses 2D and 3D animation into a visceral rampage for Ubisoft’s Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown. [Watch]
Watch Lucas Fraga Pacheco’s “Sopro” Animated Short Film
After a successful festival run, CalArts grad and Pixar animator Lucas Fraga Pacheco (Soul, Coco, Cars 3) just released his short film Sopro, a wonderfully told childhood drama, online. [Watch]
“Everything Must Go” CalArts Short Film by Alisha Liu
If you find yourself losing faith in your fellow humans, you need to watch Alisha Liu’s “Everything Must Go” – a short film that gently uncovers the sweeter side of strangers and neighbors through the communal therapy of yard sales. [Watch]
“The Moon’s Not That Great” Short Film by Mathieu Libman
The stories of an astronaut, a film director, and a unicycling bear all intersect in “The Moon’s Not That Great”, Mathieu Libman’s soft-spoken short film about dashed expectations and interplanetary popularity. [Watch]
Slicing Through “Utopia” in Short Film by Optical Arts
New London studio Optical Arts just leaped onto the Stash radar with the submission of “Utopia”, their intriguing architectural exploration of “an imaginary mausoleum in Chandigarh, Le Corbusier’s modernist city in Northern India.” [Watch]
