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The Year is 2026.

1/1/2026

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Hello all!

As is tradition, we kick off the year with a blog post going over every project we have. I'll try at least. As expected, 2025 was a pretty busy year. 2026 will involve you getting to see the results of all of that work.

BRIMSTONE TERRACE
Let's get the big one out of the way. This took up a majority of our time last year and now it's heading out into the world. Our little sneak preview in Kansas City back in November went really well. We scored the award for Best Animated Feature while we were there. That was nice of them! It's going to be a minute before we hear about any further screenings, so right now the film is cryogenically frozen until the time comes.
One thing we can show you in the meantime is the trailer! Not right this second. Like, next week! We'll be doing a live stream on our Twitch channel where we are all going to hang out and watch it with you. Doesn't that sound fun? It's happening Tuesday the 6th at 7pm central. Be there or be square! Or watch it the next day when we post it. Do what ever you want. I'm not the boss of you.

PRELIMINAL REFRAMING
This short film also had a screening in November and it also went very well! Here's the thing: it's screening again in a couple weeks at the Old Times Not Forgotten Film Festival. The fest is January 17th - 18th in Derby, KS at the Derby Plaza Theater. I actually popped by last year and it was pretty fun. Can't wait to pay them another visit.
WHO'S THE NEW GUY!?
We recently welcomed our good friend Molly Strickler to the team. You may recognize her from appearing in several projects we have worked on over the last few years. We initially met Molly as an actor, but after expressing interest in roles behind the scenes and showing off her writing talents, it only made sense to extend an invitation. It's an incredible thing to find someone that you want on every set. Molly is one of those people.

PODCAST
We recently wrapped up our eleventh season. I think we churned out some good episodes, but due to busy schedules and unforeseen circumstances, we had to cancel a handful of episodes as well. It didn't quite reach some of the heights we expected. Though, if I hadn't told you, you would be none the wiser.

Naturally, we will be starting our new season this month and we have some pretty cool ideas. However, we are going in this time with a plan to keep it pretty light. That could change though. You never know.
One fun thing we're doing this year is a special edition of the Golden Jamies (our annual round up of every new film we saw, where we pick our top five films of the year). Did you know the prestigious Golden Jamie Awards have been running for 10 YEARS!? Of course you did! It's the subject of every headline, I'm sure. What you may not know, is that we are doing a live streamed version of the show this year! This will be happening in early February. Stay tuned for the date and time! Just like the trailer premiere, this will be happening on our Twitch channel.

OTHER PROJECTS
As I update you on the status of all the projects you know about, you must be wondering if we have anything new in the works. We sure do! I'm not going to give you any specifics, but I'll drop a few hints. While we have a few feature concepts brewing, none of them are quite ready yet. We recently had a hell of a streak and now we're ready to settle down for a bit.
But look, it's not like we're laying down and dying out here. We're planning out a handful of short films and a couple of them should be going into production in the near future. We're still working out specifics. You'll likely start seeing updates about them soon enough. We're pretty excited to jump in on these.

That's enough teasing for now! We've got a whole new year to bug you! Why get it all out of the way now?
Hope everyone had a good holiday season! Here's to a great 2026!

- Tyler
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Three Premieres in November!

11/1/2025

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Hey everyone!

Yet again we found ourselves in a string of months with non-stop updates that piled up until we reached this point. This might be one of the most exciting months we've had yet and you're about to see why.
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A COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Here it comes, folks! This the first feature film by Christopher Strong and our first documentary film as a studio. That said, there was a lot to learn when it came to making and releasing a documentary. We explored a lot of options throughout the year and we may still follow up on a few of them, but we've come to the decision to release this film online for free. A big inspiration for the doc was talking about parts of American history that get glossed over in public schools. Therefore we think it should be readily available for interested audiences.

PRELIMINAL REFRAMING

We previously announced when we finished work on this new short film written and directed by Jillian Elaine. It takes a while to start hearing back from festivals, but we finally know where we will be premiering. Our friends Patrick Poe and Lolo Loren (who you may know from PERSONAL HISTORY and DEATH IN LAVENDER) have their own monthly film festival in Kansas City, MO called the Bird Watching Film Festival. We've had many shorts screen there over the years. However, this year their ever growing festival is launching a three day event featuring multiple venues and features! We feel really lucky to have our new short premiere here. But there's even better news...
BRIMSTONE TERRACE
First of all, we completed production on our new animated feature! It's been a long three year process, but we're excited to show it off! Which we will be sooner than expected! Brimstone will also be screening at the Bird Watching Film Festival! We actually didn't expect to start hearing back from any festivals until early next year, but there was great interest expressed in having Brimstone submitted to the fest and we were lucky enough to get in as close to last minute as one can.
We just received word that our films were accepted, so we still don't know the specific date or venue for either, but we will keep everyone updated as we find out!

As you can see, we have a lot of exciting things coming up this month, so stay tuned!

​- Tyler
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BRIMSTONE in Post, New Short & CHOTUS Screening!

6/23/2025

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Hello everyone!

I almost did a good job keeping up with updates during that campaign. Now it’s almost the end of June and there’s a lot to say.
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BRIMSTONE TERRACE
The campaign ended in May and we received a decent amount of help. I’ll take the opportunity to extend another thank you to everyone who helped! Before it ended we released a behind the scenes video featuring many of the voice talents from the film. Oh look! Here it is!
We also did our first Twitch stream in quite a while. David Young, Jillian and I were joined by special guests Tori Kamal and Melissa White for a stream counting down the final hours of the campaign. It was a lot of fun, we showed off a few animatic clips and ended up promising a few additional streams if we hit certain goals. We did in fact hit a few of those goals and now we will be streaming a marathon of the original 2013 series in July and we’ll be doing a cooking stream featuring segments of our upcoming Brimstone themed cook-book in August. We also did one last weekend where we announced a bunch of the updates you’re about to read. All this to say, there is a lot going on over on the IC Twitch channel. So I dunno. Maybe follow it or something to get notified when we’re live.
On the production side of things, we’ve been making major strides. Animation is complete! We are now onto the compositing phase, while Jillian revs up for the sound mix. As of last week, I actually finished compositing the first act. So we’re making very good progress. Hopefully that holds up.

PRELIMINAL REFRAMING
Speaking of Jillian, she recently completed work on a short film of her own called PRELIMINAL REFRAMING. It is an experimental narrative, sort of sci-fi leaning short and may be a piece of a larger idea. We’ll be digging into release possibilities for that in the coming months.

A COMPLEX HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
Great news for any Wichitans wanting to check out Christopher Strong’s documentary feature! We will be screening at the Tallgrass Film Center on July 19th. Tickets will be available soon, so keep an eye out. Chris will also be in attendance, so be sure to bombard him with questions when the movie is over. Not during the movie. That would be rude.

I think that does it for now. We have a few more things on the horizon that we’ll be sure to let you know about. After a sizable gap, of course. Wouldn’t want to keep this blog updated frequently or anything crazy like that!

- Tyler
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