Topanga filmmaker Tom Miller goes rogue

Topanga Film Festival veteran and local filmmaker Tom Miller shares his experience at Werner Herzog’s Rogue Film School, which he recently completed.

Sebastian’s Voodoo

This Topanga Film Festival winner is the tale of a selfless voodoo doll. An animation tour de force by Joaquin Baldwin.
It’s the winner of numerous awards including Student Academy Awards 2009 (CA) – Silver Medaland Festival de Cannes – Short Film Corner – Winner, NFB Online Competition

Institute ready to spread its wings

Topanga Film Insti­tute is gear­ing up for a year of spe­cial events lead­ing up to and fol­low­ing this 2010 Topanga Film Fes­ti­val. The insti­tute was formed to inspire, inform and inter­con­nect a gen­er­a­tion of film­mak­ers to pio­neer a fer­tile new era of global, trans-format con­tent creation.
A tra­di­tional hotbed of [...]

Beautiful Eyes

“Beautiful Eyes,” a Topanga Film Festival animation by Will Kim, uses watercolor to interpret the German romantic novel ‘The Sandman’ by E.T.A Hoffman. Original score by Kirin Kapin.