In a 2009 Esquire feature titled “These Are the Directors of the Future,” a young Isaiah Saxon laid out a 30-year plan for his filmmaking collective Encyclopedia Pictura. Included in the design was ...

The Ochi, a small mystical creature feared by a remote Carpathian village in writer-director Isaiah Saxon’s The Legend of Ochi, speak in a language that operates in a musical and emotional capacity. A ...

The 2025 Sundance Film Festival crowd was treated to an epic adventure with writer and director Isaiah Saxon's feature directorial debut, The Legend of Ochi. This A24 fantasy evokes the hues and ...

Logline: In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a farm girl named Yuri (Helena Zengel) is raised to fear an animal species known as Ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby Ochi has been ...

"They can't be our pets." "He's my friend." A24 has revealed an official trailer for a magical new adventure film called The Legend of Ochi, marking the feature debut of up-and-coming filmmaker Isaiah ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The story around Isaiah Saxon's feature debut, "The Legend of Ochi," took a drastic turn, as so many Hollywood stories did, with ...

Filmmaker Isaiah Saxon says he loves to make movies about strange creatures both hairy and human, and his feature debut “The Legend of Ochi” has some good ones, thanks in no small part to his Northern ...

The Legend of Ochi feels like a film that shouldn't exist today. It's an original story, not an adaptation of an already popular book or comic. It's filled with complex puppetry and practical effects, ...

It's pretty common these days for young people to live with their parents after college, but few have managed to transform their old homestead quit like filmmaker Isaiah Saxon has. With the help of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In contrast, the ochi—and the world around both him and Yuri—are almost exactly as they seem. More specifically, they were ...

Jsaiah Saxon (born 1983) is an American film and music video director. He co-founded the animation studio Encyclopaedia Pictura and the online community DIY.org. Saxon was born and raised in Aptos, ...

EXCLUSIVE: A24 has has assembled an all-star cast including Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, Finn Wolfhard and Helena Zengel for Isaiah Saxon’s fantasy epic The Legend of Ochi. The film will mark Saxon’s ...