Sundance Film Festival screened several exciting films from January 23 to February 2, 2025. Among them was The Legend of Ochi ...

The baby creature from “The Legend of Ochi” has captured the internet’s heart — just as its creators intended.

Isaiah Saxon, who made his feature film debut with The Legend of Ochi (A24), describes a "giant corporate garden" that independent filmmakers find difficult to enter as one controlled by a few ...

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - APRIL 15: Richard Peete, Director Isaiah Saxon, Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson and Traci ...

Daren Rabinovitch and Sean Hellfritsch—appeared on Filmmaker’s annual 25 New Faces of Film list based on the strength of their impressive work on indie rock music videos. Saxon himself had a direct ...

We all kind of think we know what VFX looks like — or at least what bad VFX looks like. We can often feel when ...

Writer and director Isaiah Saxon was very much reflecting on the Santa Cruz Mountains and their redwood forests when devising ...

The Legend of Ochi writer-director Isaiah Saxon talks about making the adorable creature at the heart of the movie’s fantasy ...

At the center of the story is the baby Ochi creature; not a CGI creation, but a fully practical puppet operated by five puppeteers, led by veteran puppeteer Robert Tygner (whose credits include ...

Jami Gertz’s life story could be fit for the big screen. After growing up in a working-class family in Glenview, Illinois, ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Isaiah Saxon, writer and director of The Legend of Ochi, about chasing the mysteries of nature, ...