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Porch Pirates

November 2024 •English

In "Porch Pirates," three detectives—Jack Tyler, Marcos Fernandez, and Sally Jones—tackle the challenge of catching a group of holiday thieves. As they strive to safeguard the festive season, they also manage personal struggles. Jack balances his demanding job with his vibrant family life, while widower Marcos grapples with his grief during the holidays. The plot thickens with a high-stakes mission to retrieve a valuable Beanie Baby stolen from the Mayor's porch, threatening the town's Christmas spirit. This thrilling chase is laden with humor, surprising turns, and a sprinkle of holiday magic, reminding us that Christmas joy comes from unity, laughter, and sometimes, chasing the perfect, unconventional gift.

The Nightingale

December 1981 •English

A short, stop-frame animation. The film uses puppets to tell Hans Christian Andersen's tale about the song of a nightingale heard by the little kitchen girl at the Emperor of China's palace.

Walter and the Moon

March 2016 •English

Ever wondered why the werewolf howls at the moon? Walter will show you.

Untitled Tim Burton Animated Film

Invalid date •English

A new animated feature. Plot TBA.

Chet Bueller: Attorney at Law

Invalid date •English

A lawyer enlists the help of his former client to get his dog back from the clutches of his ex-wife.

The Hansom Cabman

October 1924 •English

Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's anger all around, leading to Harry's arrest. He's jailed while awaiting trial in front of Betty's father, a judge. She visits him in the clink. He escapes and disguises himself as a cabman. The police are looking for him, as are his fiancée and her mother. Will it get straightened out in time for wedding bells to ring?

Picking Peaches

February 1924 •English

A series of sketches with a shoe clerk, his wife, and his extra-curricular activities. The shoe clerk steps out on his wife with one of his customers. Both his wife and the woman's husband catch them when they go to the beach and later watch a beauty and fashion contest. His wife enters it wearing a mask. Back at work on Monday, all has returned to normal, until the winner of the contest shows up for her prize - a complete wardrobe...

Berro

August 2024 •Portuguese

This film is about entering the flow of the scream and seeing its color.

The Tain

April 2004 •English

A cut-out animation musical adaptation of the Irish mythological epic Táin Bó Cúailnge.

Memory of a Displaced Body

June 2024 •Spanish

A ritual in the form of a film essay that explores, through collage, the sense of exile experienced during early childhood migration. It examines the primal configuration of detachment from one’s homeland, family environment, and body, and the reclamation of origins as a symbolic center.

Jungle Gents

September 1954 •English

When a cold medicine causes Sach to be able to smell diamonds, he and the rest of the Bowery Boys are induced by a diamond dealer to accompany him to Darkest Africa in search of a legendary cache of them.

Evil Nurse 2

April 2011 •English

Three young teens, Jack, Tando and Shelly like to race motorcycles on the road. One night Shelly had an accident. The two companions immediately brought her to the nearest hospital. While waiting for Shelly in care, they met with a Japanese girl who was ushered seeing his best friend, Cakil. But the hospital was not an ordinary hospital. They found many strange and terrible things, so they decided to get out of there. But, they can not go, until they discover a surprise that they never expected

O Gorila

October 2023 •Portuguese

The Counterfeit Cat

December 1949 •English

A cat steals the headpiece of a dog to deceive the bulldog Spike and get a chance to eat the canary Spike is guarding.

The Pirates of Penzance

June 1980 •English

As a young child, Frederic had been apprenticed to a pirate by mistake when he should have been apprenticed to a pilot. Now, having reached his 21st year, Frederic's indentures are at last over and he happily leaves the service of the pirates. When Frederic meets the beautiful Mabel, one of the many daughters (or wards in Chancery) of Major-General Stanley, they fall in love and decide to marry. However, complications arise when the pirates decide to marry the rest of the Major-General's daughters, themselves - and Frederic's birthdate turns out to be not all it seems. Filmed live from Central Park prior to the production's transition to Broadway.

Follow That Bunny!

January 1992 •English

When an ice cream king named I.M. Ruthless swipes the Easter Bunny's all-power Magic Egg, causing Spring to "not come". Join Clarise Bunny, Forest Ranger Gerbert, and two helpful human kings Scott and Abby as they embark on a quest to save the egg and bring on spring. Filled with delightful clay animation and a brimming Easter basket fill of terrific tunes bring to life this happy, high spirited bunny-tale of the year that never spring.

Winter Carousel

January 1958 •French

A small group of animals gathers around a frozen pond. The animals then play together on the ice and in the snow. Later, when the season changes, they look for new ways of passing the time.

In Absentia

October 2000 •English

A woman sits alone on a chair at a table in a room on one of the top floors of an asylum. Bright spot lights dot the night, sometimes shining on her window. She sharpens pencils and writes on a page in a copy book. The pencil point often breaks under her fingers' force. She places broken points outside the window on the sill. A satanic figure is somewhere nearby, animated but of straw or clay, not flesh. She finishes her writing, tears the paper from the pad, folds it, places it in an envelope, and slips it through a slot. Is she writing to her husband? "Sweetheart, come."

Set in Stone

June 2017 •English

an intuiting of the core feelings of the Moses story relating to the current capitalistic global system all told through a hybrid of stop motion animation and live action.

Escape

February 2017 •English

your mind can be a prison that you cannot escape