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There’s a small A24 family film out called The Legend of Ochi, based on an original script by the writer-director Isaiah ...
Writer and director Isaiah Saxon was very much reflecting on the Santa Cruz Mountains and their redwood forests when devising ...
The baby creature from “The Legend of Ochi” has captured the internet’s heart — just as its creators intended.
Director Isaiah Saxon of “The Legend of Ochi” sat down with The Daily Californian to discuss everything from his inspiration ...
Sundance Film Festival screened several exciting films from January 23 to February 2, 2025. Among them was The Legend of Ochi ...
All of that research eventually coalesced into the Ochi, a species of scavenger primates with a unique, throat-singing ...
Isaiah Saxon’s imaginative narrative and visual flair lend this fantastical tale an originality that seems rare ...
We all kind of think we know what VFX looks like — or at least what bad VFX looks like. We can often feel when ...
Straining to walk in Steven Spielberg’s footsteps, Isaiah Saxon tries to replicate the legendary director’s “E.T the ...
I have an allegiance towards the moral superiority of children, and the script was written from that perspective,” Isaiah ...
Straining to walk in Steven Spielberg’s footsteps, Isaiah Saxon tries to replicate the legendary director’s “E.T the ...
The Legend of Ochi' writer-director Isaiah Saxon on making the baby Ochi character, a gorilla-like animal at the center of the fantasy movie.