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

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 ...

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

From fires to spooky Transylvanian forests, Aptos native Isaiah Saxon encountered it all while filming “The Legend of Ochi.” ...

All of that research eventually coalesced into the Ochi, a species of scavenger primates with a unique, throat-singing ...

For Saxon, who makes his feature debut with The Legend of Ochi, seeing the puppet was the culmination of years' worth of ...

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

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

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 ...

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