The story around Isaiah Saxon's feature debut, "The Legend of Ochi," took a drastic turn, as so many Hollywood stories did, with this month's Los Angeles fires. Saxon lost his home in the blaze ...

The director of "The Legend of Ochi" did not face pushback from A24 when he wanted to use puppets instead of VFX.

Known for his striking music videos, writer-director Isaiah Saxon flexes his blissful visual combination of tactile and digital elements in a fable about a girl connecting with a big-eyed forest ...

A24 has delayed the theatrical release of “The Legend of Ochi” after filmmaker Isaiah Saxon‘s house burned down in the Los Angeles wildfires. The fantasy adventure will premiere at Sundance ...

Saxon spent six years working on the film, making countless matte paintings by hand and overseeing puppetry and animatronics that some online cinephiles baselessly accused of being produced with ...

Willem Dafoe, Finn Wolfhard and Helena Zengel star in Isaiah Saxon's Sundance premiere about a young girl who encounters a fascinating new species. By Justin Lowe With theaters flooded over the ...

The Legend of Ochi opens in theaters April 25. This review is based on a screening at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival. A tale of yearning, rebellion, and magical beings, Isaiah Saxon's The Legend ...

Sundance: Willem Dafoe and Helena Zengel star in Isaiah Saxon's gorgeously crafted debut about a girl trying to reunite a mythical forest creature with its family. The Ochi are a mythical forest ...

A24’s almost-fantasy-adventure, almost-family-drama movie The Legend of Ochi, from writer-director Isaiah Saxon, follows in that vein. The creature in question is an ochi, an apelike animal ...

With The Legend of Ochi, filmmaker Isaiah Saxon makes his first feature-length live-action film, following a successful career in animation. This fantasy adventure takes viewers to a remote Carpathian ...