I’m an independent filmmaker and puppeteer in Toronto, Canada who blogs about puppetry and film.
For years I've been waiting for someone to design a better version of those "grabber" animal head puppets that are sold at theme parks and discount stores all over the world. Well, it looks like Brent Geppert has gone and done...
Kevin McTurk sent me this trailer for his film The Narrative of Victor Karloch, which is the latest film commissioned by Heather Henson for her Handmade Puppet Dreams series. I can't wait to see the entire...
Last week we took a quick look at WarSheep and An Attic Full of Puppets, two puppetry projects that are looking for support via crowdfunding. I wanted to follow those up with Cicada Princess, a beautiful looking film that’s currently in production thanks to a very successful fundraising campaign on Kickstarter. Cicada Princess is actually...
I saw The Execution of Margot Rumebe last week and fell in love with it. It was made by the Old Trout Puppet Workshop in collaboration with filmmaker Simon Dekker and Michael Green of Calgary, Alberta's acclaimed One Yellow Rabbit Theatre....
Ballography is a web series on Gameslam.com that's produced by Adam and David Rudman's Spiffy Pictures. The series is a spoof of Biography, with each episode a famous baseball from MLB history ranting about their glory....
I love this simple. but very fun digital short by Mathieu Rene, who is a mad puppet...
Remember Kooky's Return (Kuky Se Vrascí) the beautiful-looking Czech puppet film by Jan Svěrák that was posted on PuppetVision back in January? Due to popular demand a "home-made" English dubbed version of the film has been...
This is a few weeks late for Christmas perhaps, but I really liked this behind-the-scenes video for The Nativity Story, which premiered at the Orlando Puppet Festival a few months...
It's almost the end of the year and you know what that means...time for JibJab's annual salute to the year we've all just lived through. Although JibJab is primarily an animation studio, they've never shied away from blending puppetry and animation in the past (see previous post) and this year's video is almost entirely puppet...
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is an incredibly faithful-looking adaptation of the classic holiday TV special at The Center For Puppetry Arts in...
This is a trailer for La Cité entre les Murs (Innercity), a short puppet film from Canadian filmmaker Daniel Auclair. It tells the story of "a boy with only pigeons for company (who) tries to seduce his remote neighbor with wacky...
An ad for Joe's Crab Shack - an American chain of Beach-themed seafood restaurants - featuring a realistic-looking crab puppet built and performed by Craig Marin and Olga Felgemacher of Flexitoon Puppets....