Proud to have hosted a 35MM screening at the Alamo Drafthouse of one of my favorite films, Killer Klowns from Outerspace. It’s Directed, Written, Klown Acted by the Chiodo Brothers and I even edited together the 30 minute preshow- watch it here.
I dressed up like sweet cotton candy not to be mistaken for sperm at the event and I think it went very well, almost as if I was in the movie???
That’s right, the 30 solid minutes that I’ve edited together of bliss that’s inspired by the Ridley Scott 80’s underrated fantastical film, Legend starring Tim Curry, Tom Cruise and Mia Sara is finally released. I hosted a screening of a sweet vintage 35mm print of the amazing film at the Alamo Drafthouse a few months ago dressed as Tom Cruise from Top Gun because Ridley Scott’s brother actually discovered him on the set of Legend and I decided it was meta. I was also in Mia Sara’s makeup design from a famous transformative scene in Legend.
Please drink an alcohol or two, eat some snacks, cover yourself in sparkles and watch this before Legend or really any Ridley Scott film. Share, watch on repeat and enjoy!!
WATCH MEEEEE DRINK MEEEE FREE MEEEE NOW AND FOREVER
So proud to be apart of this amazing Channel! Old Man will continue to live on beside incredibly talented artists, crews, humans on the Criterion Collection Channel! You all should subscribe NOW and watch all of the amazing films you cannot see on Netflix, Hulu, Pornhub, etc. Plus you will be able to see my hilarious and probably best interview to date about my influences that range from Patti Smith, Legend the movie to makeup and my mom! THANK YOU to my incredible team who really helped make the film, well, a film!! Animators/fabricators/board artists: Michaela Olsen, Jonathan Seligson, Liesje Kraai Mel Loyola Agosto Isam S. Prado! Thank you Alec Henninger for cleaning up the Manson audio and THANK YOU! A BIG thank you to the one and only, writer who was friends with Mr.Manson and gave me the audio to make this film! Marlin M. Marynick Thank you! I appreciate you. Thank you to the Criterion Crew who believed in both this film and myself as a filmmaker. Please support this channel because it supports independent film, art and so much more.
I can’t wait for you to see what I am making now!! Onward towards the future! THANK YOU! XO
#film #womeninfilm #womendirectors #womeninanimation #womenanimationdirectors 
xo
Thank you Motionographer for writing about Don’t Touch Your Face!!! We really love your site and love that you wrote about this fun PSA!! Congrats team! 🙂
Thank you Vimeo Staff Picks for staff picking Don’t Touch Your Face! I know this means a lot to myself and the team! So spread the video and don’t touch your face!
Music by the talented Gina Volpe from the Lunachicks
Dir by muah
Animated by Me and Rob Yulfo
Produced by Cyndy Villano
Associate Produced by Lola RocknRolla
I had the pleasure of making this for The Lunachick’s Gina Volpe. Please watch, don’t touch your face and SHARE!
Directed by: Leah Shore
Animation by: Leah Shore and Rob Yulfo
Music by: Gina Volpe
Produced by: Cyndy Villano
Associate Producer: Lola RocknRolla
Watch my preshow before you watch the movie, heck have you and your pals watch it before you Netflix Party hard to this classic beaut! There’s a ton of fun easter eggs and info about the Chiodo Bros, the film and inspo in it. ENJOY!
I’m social distancing myself for the next few weeks or until the end of time, because I don’t want to catch this virus and you should too. What a great and unexpected staycation it is. All lives matter- save the world please. xo
Proud to be hosting a special screening of Killer Klowns from Outerspace at the Alamo Drafthouse for their Terror Tuesday, January 7th at 9:30pm. It’s one of my favorite “B” horror films made by the Chiodo Brothers and I hope that you’ll join me on this cotton candy, electric, murderous adventure! Seating is limited!!
Thank you Deep Focus Film Festival for a. programming experimental films and b. awarding this fun, weird, dance-experimental-environmental-doc the Best Experimental Short Award!
Shout out to Scientist Dr. Tracy Fanara, my partner on this project for Imagine Science Film Festival where we won First Place. Additional shout outs to my amaaaazing crew who believed in this film and science. DP Charlotte Hornsby, Producer Jonathan Federico, Dancers Brian Castillo and Rosane Chamecki, Music by Johnny Woods, Sound fx and mix by Matt Davies and Studio Unkown, Editing by Lucy Munger, Production Design/Costumes by Nicole Hertay, Sound by Allistair Farrant, PA’s Destyn Fuler and Savvy Jaye, Color and Color Grading by Alan Louis Gordon and Post Pro Gumbo…
Thank you Imagine Science and to the Simons Foundation for additional support!
Thanks so much Animation Magazine for the lil interview and thank you to my amazing lil team for helping me produce an amazing piece! 3D artist, Johnny Woods and Producer, Anca Vlasan and to the rest of the [AS] staff!
Thank you Deep Focus Film Festival, a fest here in Brooklyn NYC, for awarding our film, Extremophiles Best Experimental Short! It means a lot since we filmed it in BROOKLYN and it’s an experimental dance doc about BROOKLYN!!!! Congrats to the cast and crew and see you in North Carolina in November!
You can now watch one of the episodes here, but you have to subscribe to the Eyslicer in order to watch the rest and it’s worth it, scouts honor.
My super short that I made for Giphy, Hi Twin! will be premiering at the Sidewalk Film Festival. Along with that, my film Extremophiles will be playing and Onur Turkel’s feature Black Magic for White Boys will also be playing. I’m in it! Surprise! I’m an actress. If you’re in Birmingham go see these films and support independent film!
SAT Aug 24th at 10pm in the Shorts: After Dark chapter 1 (ASFA black box theater)
SAT Aug 24th 5:25pm Black Magic for White Boys (black box theater)
SUN Aug 25th at 6:55 pm Environmental Documentaries by Wild and Scenic Film Festival (ASFA black box theater)
COME FIND ME AND SAY HI because I’m a famous actress now. XO
#giphy #twins #hi #thankyou #lgbtq #alabama #environmental #imaginescience #science #womeninscience #womendirectors #womeninfilm #womencinematographers #comedy #drama #magic #actress #yas #short #feature #whoa #bbq #doc #documentary #nyc #brooklyn
I have a new website and you should DEFINITELY check it out! Sign up for my newsletter, look at my films, commercials I’ve produced or just watch some explosions!
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HOME PAGE OF MY WEBSITE. Click above to enter! 😀
I’m hosting Weird Wednesday June 5th 9:30 at the Alamo Drafthouse NYC (it’s sold out!) and am hosting one of my favorite films of all time- Ridley Scott’s LEGEND. Come see me dressed up as something semi related in some way to Legend and rant for a good minute about the film in a fun way! Also come before to see my AH-MAZE-ING 30 MINUTE INSANE PRESHOW! XO NOW AND FOREVER.
at the Lighthouse International Film Festival in LBI NJ! So cool! They only take around 100 films, support the Environment, it takes place at the BEACH and I can actually attend because I no longer have a broken leg! CELEBRATION! I’m super proud of this film and I think it’s one of the most ambitious films I’ve produced. I’m blessed to have had a talented crew on board such as Hair Wolf’s Charlotte Hornsby as my DP, incredibly talented performers Rosane Chamecki and Brian Castillo, our Talented badass editor Lucy Munger , our production designer/Wardrobe designer Nicole Puszynski Heraty , Music by the AMAZING Johnny Woods, on site sound by the talented Alistair Farrant , sound design by the again, bad ass Matt Davies , color by Post Pro Gumbo , an AMAZING PA Destyn Fuller-Hope, Producer Jonathan Federico, The amazing Imagine Science Films ,Nate Dorr ,Lauren kaye, and to my PAIRED SCIENTIST: Dr. Tracy Fanara . For you, I am inspired by all the time, every day. Thanks for changing me for the better as a filmmaker and artist. Thank you!
The film plays SUNDAY JUNE 9th at 1:30 PM in shorts block 10, first!
Hi! I’ve not written in a while. I had the wonderful opportunity to work with my friend, Rohitash Rao, the first Director I EVER worked with in the industry. I was his Intern when I was about 20ish and built stop motion puppets and set design pieces for his commercials. So when he hit me up, well I just SQUEALED with joy! I animated a commercial for him, in HARMONY. Well I Animation Directed, and boarded the piece for him, which was a great experience because it wasn’t my style. Thank you Peter Gulsvig for killing the animation hardcore! I enjoyed the outcome and it was a really fast turn around. Please watch and enjoy! THANKS!
OKAY. RIP FILMSTRUCK….hello Criterion Collection Channel and yes, Old Man will be available to watch on it!! YAY! Stay tuned, and when I mean tuned I mean “tune” in to your Criterion Channel now. 😀 get iiiit… #criterioncollection #oldman #shortfilm #womeninfilm #womendirector #thankyou #yas #animation #animateddoc #experimental
Proud to have two films competing in this one! SPLIFF! TOO GROOVY! HANDS and one of my favorite shorts, BOOBatary! Fingers, joints and spliffs crossed!
Can’t stop giving #face made this a few hundred years ago. Huzzah! Me face! #me #face #sculpture #sculpy #puff #smile #art #above #door #portrait #womenartists #womeninfilm #womendirectors 💝🚪🎉
“To be awarded to one or more Rooftop Films alumni filmmakers to help them to complete a short film that communicates the power of hope, collaboration and togetherness to make positive change. ” -Rooftop Films
Wow. Welp. I just got awarded a grant from the wonderful Rooftop Films, thank you! I will be making a short doc about my mother, Susan Frost and what she does for a living. She’s an ocularist, she makes artificial eyes, meaning she hand sculpts, paints and molds the eye for her patients. It’s intimate. It’s emotional and she literally changes the patients life. I cannot wait to make this film and am thankful my mom is down to make it as well! Thank goodness for artists as parents! YAY!
Variety post:
Rooftop post:
https://www.rooftopfilms.com/filmmakers-fund-grantees/
I had the pleasure of Animation Directing the 2D hand drawn sequences in the Feature Film “J.R. “Bob” Dobbs and The Church of the SubGenius” Doc Premiering at SXSW this March. I am not sure I can make it, which stinks due to breaking my foot and being on crutches and a weird pseudo big kid wheel (which is a load of fun to ride on and makes me tre GoldenGirls). Wish I could attend! ALL HAIL BOB. With dir. Sandy K Boone prod. Jason Wehling. Animation by the crazy talented team of Jonathan Seligson and intern, Joshua Boulos CONGRATS! #femaledirector #womendirector #womeninfilm #womeninanimation #lgbt Risd Fav #texas #bob #hail #doc #thankyou #2d #2019 #sxsw #film #feature #broken #foot #handdrawn #pt2 #sad #fomo #crumb Checkout the schedule
Thank you Sidewalk Film Festival for this gorgeous 3d printed Trophy for Best Short Animated Film for FUNERAL! We weren’t even nominated in the category but accept! Congrats to all of the other filmmakers and thank you to the Jury, the Sidewalk Volunteers, Programmers and everyone else who participated! xo
#womeninfilm #animation #womendirectors #2d #3dprinted #3d #trophy #sidewalk #alabama #thankyou #team #yaaas #crown #comedy #shortfilm #film #hilarious #untilnexttime #crew #filmmaking #filmmakers #jury #independent #volunteer #congrats
https://www.instagram.com/p/BtJ7GMGhx_7/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet
I saved my favorite short for my last post as the guest curator for Echo Park Film Center this month. My chosen them was: Beautiful Ugly and Whack World by Tierra Whack is an odyssey of everything that I have been writing about. Please watch this plus my bonus short of REVOLVER, an animated short that also has vignettes, and similar themes. ENJOY!
#bugs #insects #womenrappers #artists #art #womeninfilm #womendirectors #pink #vingnette #short #oneminute #music #rap #beautiful #whack #tierra #marvelousmoviemonday #animation
Enough said, I have a new reel! Check it out: ANIMATION FIRST….
#womeninanimation #animation #animationdirector #animationproducer #animator #2d #stopmotion #fabricator #hi #hireme #comedy #boards #characteranimator #lead #herro #fabulous #soareyou #:)
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leah@leahshore.com
Another Marvelous Movie Monday by yours truly! This time with a 3D artist I adore! Check him out, but turn off the music, it’s horrendous.
#animation #bouncy #beautiful #ugly #marvelousmoviemondays #3d #flesh #melting #surreal #experimental
Yaaaay I got asked to curate Echo Park Film Center’s Marvelous Monday and boy are the films I chose crazy! The film I am going with is Beautiful Ugly and the first film I went with, is, um…well you will just have to go see my post! Enjoy!
#womeninanimation, #2D, #chinese, #womendirectors, #womeninfilm, #diversity, #ass, #butts, #poop, #colors, #flash, #handdrawn, #shortfilm, #echopark, #usa, #america, #beautiful, #ugly, #beautifulugly, #breakups, #bfs, #musicvideo, #marvelousmoviemondays
Thank you Simons Foundation for this sweet write up about EXTREMOPHILES and the process of producing this interesting documentary science dance film. We really hope to show this to all the people soon and premiere it somewhere neat! With my paired scientist, Dr. Tracy Fanara, DP, Charlotte Hornsby, Rosane Chamecki, Brian Castillo, Nicole Puszynski Heraty, Post Pro Gumbo, Studio Unknown, Alistair Farrant, Jonathan Federico, the PA’s etc. Thanks! 🙂
https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2019/01/03/one-artist-one-scientist-one-week-to-make-a-film/
#dance #extreme #environment #recycle #brooklyn #radioactive #toxic #simonsfoundation #climatechange #gowanus #canal #experimental #thankyou #womeninfilm #art #lgbt #team #womencinematographer #womenscientists Imagine Science Film Festival #filmmakers #scientists #wealldie
So Giphy commissioned me to make a super short short film for their first ever Film Festival! So cool! So honored. Thank you Giphy! I decided to buy some mini lenses for my iphone and make a mini film with myself and this actor aka Jonathan. It was a lot of fun and we Twinned very hard. The film is called Hi Twin and is 27 seconds long. I would like it to premiere at a film festival somewhere…do they make tiny film fests? Who knows! Contact me for any inquiries and checkout my Giphy page for some gifs from the mini film!
Cool write-up about the fest HERE
My GIPHY PAGE
Thanks!
HAAAAAAAANDS!!! That’s right, she is still hands-ing to play at film festivals…my signal film I made for the amazing film festival CUCALORUS just won a damn Honorable Mention award at Indie Memphis!! I am so sad to have missed this one. NOT to mention my new film, Funeral was also playing there. Wow. Just wow. Thank you Jury members, thank you staff, programmers, volunteers, filmmakers, film-goers, friends, Memphis, Cucalorus, Matt Davies, Jaime Horrigan at Studio Unkown, Aaron Hillis who both produced Hands and was also the dead corpse in Funeral, and Dan Brawley the Chief Instigating Officer of the Cucalorus Festival.
Please email me with any film festival playing inquiry! Leah@leahshore.com
THANK YOU.
Old Man won first prize Audience Awards in the Experimental Shorts Film Festival. So cool. Thank you festival for picking this film. Thank you to the team. Thank you, Old Man for lending your ghostly voice and to Marlin Marynick for the support and for your voice.
xo
go watch the film on the Criterion Channel and see me get interviewed and talk about my influences in life and beyond!
Thank you Sidewalk Film Festival for awarding our new short FUNERAL best animated short film! Literally I was speechless, in that I should have probably prepared a speech and thanked animation, ghosts, animation, the trophy and I think a few other things…and left. THANK YOU. Thank you to my amazing team, post and pre..thank you, and of course, thank you animation.
Until next time.
xo
Shout out to Jonathan Federico, Natasha Soto-Albors, Jennifer Prediger, Jarret Kerr, Aaron Hillis, my animation team: Jonathan Seligson, Sarah Miskoff and Nico Teitel… and to my amazing exec producers Adnaan Muslim, Rene Federico, Nightspark Pictures, Elizabeth Krajewski…
Hey! OLD MAN is playing before Dennis Hopper’s Directorial debut, EASY RIDER on the Criterion Channel, Filmstruck. Check it out when you have the chance. I am unbelievably honored, speechless and am in utter aw over this. Thank you to the Criterion crew for having me over, letting me into their film closet, letting me speak about my influences such as Cher, my mom and everything in between and for just supporting the arts. Onward to more films and art making! Thank you to my amazing, supportive crew, most who went to RISD with me: Jonathan Seligson, Michaeala Olsen, Melissa Loyola, Liesje Kraai, Isam Prado, Chris Barret for introducing me to the right people and finally Marlin Marynick who was very close with Manson and who wrote Manson Now. Thank you for letting me into you wonderful life.
Watch my hilarious inspiration list here
When you go to the Criterion Channel I host a directors intro about the film, my life and a ton of other information!
Well. This happened. It’s been like a surreal dream…
The film I produced with an amazing team in 2012 narrated by the one and only, recently passed, Charles Manson, OLD MAN will be distributed by the infamous Criterion Channel’s FilmStruck. It will play before Dennis Hopper’s feature debut, Easy Rider. It is a rather perfect pairing.
1969 saw the release of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider and the media circus ignited by the Manson murders, two seismic cultural events that cast a shadow on the freewheeling good vibes of the hippie era. This program brings together two films that capture the spirit of that chaotic year. In the 2012 experimental documentary Old Man, Brooklyn-based artist Leah Shore combines eye-popping animation with never-before-heard phone calls that Charles Manson made from jail to the infamous cult leader and Canadian author Marlin Marlin M. Marynick. In his directorial debut, Hopper created one of the great American road movies, a counterculture sensation that mixed New Wave-inspired aesthetics, a bold rock soundtrack, and star-making performances by Peter Fonda and Jack Nicholson.
*Premiering on the Chanel this month *make sure to watch out for a lil interview by yours truly!
Thank you to my crew: Jonathan Seligson Marlin M. Marynick Michaela OlsenLiesje KraaiMel Loyola AgostoIsam S. PradoAlec Henninger and to The Criterion Collection crew, Penelope Rose Bartlett and the FilmStruck!! THANK YOU! OH also, Dennis Hopper RIP and Charles Manson, thank you for your voice and making this film possible.
For more information contact:
REP:
Eva Dickerman at Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment eva@op-ent.com
or
PERSONAL:
leah@leahshore.com
THANK YOU!
Hey! I did the 2D animation in the Netflix Doc Take Your Pills. Go watch it! It is really good. It is on Netflix and if you don’t have it go ask your mom or a friend for a pw. Kay, bye.
I was interviewed on a podcast! I talk about everything from boobs, my new film Funeral to my mom! YAY! Thanks Tin Can for the interview!
http://www.tincan.media/kof/2018/02/18/leah-shore-talks-about-animating-the-world-around-her/
So proud to reveal the poster of my new film Funeral! Check it oooout! Starring Jennifer Prediger and Jarret Kerr! Jonathan Federico and I wrote and produced the film. Cinematography by Henry Roosevelt. Musical score by Michael Montes. Production design by Nicole Puszynski Heraty. Executive Producers: Natasha Soto-Albors, Elizabeth Krajewski, Rene Federico, Adnaan Muslim. In association with Night Spark Pictures and Cutters Studios For any inquiries please email me at Leah@leahshore.com thanks! #womendirectors #womeninfilm #poop #women #mary #jenniferismary #thankyou #film #independetfilm #shortfilm #animation #art
I had the pleasure of illustrating Lady Bird for Talkhouse top films of the year! Check it out here http://www.talkhouse.com/the-2017-talkies-talkhouse-film-c…/ #gretagerwig #Saoirseronan #womendirectors #womenwriters #bff
The Cucalorus Film Festival had myself and Studio Unkown make the bumper this year and guess what, it is coming to the ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE, Brooklyn! So watch out! When you least expect it…HANDS will come atcha 1000000% And don’t forget to donate to the Cucalorus Film Festival because it is a wonderful film festival, non-profit and it goes to filmmakers, film goers, funding and so so much more. KEEP REAL ART ALIVE.
GO TO WEIRD WEDNESDAY TONIGHT 12/6!
All the love.
HANDS.
*DON’T FORGET TO SCREAM “HANDS” when you watch it, Folks. People will rejoice.
I just found this sweet article and I love it. I think it is rather appropriate because it is amazing and I was lucky enough to see Peaches perform here in NY this weekend. She was amazing as always. Luckily she is roommate-less now, thank goodness. 🙂
We produced my favorite episode this week of How It Went Down featuring Sam Smith. The animation reflects the background and what he is talking about: breakups, heartbreak, choirs, music and flowers! I absolutely loved working on this and want to explore more visual pieces like this. If you didn’t know, we produce an episode a WEEK! YES, a week! I know, we are fab. It could not be done without the fabulously talented Billboard crew, THANK YOU!
I had the pleasure of Directing Bella Thorne and Prince Fox for Billboard and then animating on top of the edited piece. Assisting animation by Peter Gulsvig and produced by Jessica Rovniak for the series How It Went Down. I have been working on the entire series by the way, so you should probably watch all the episodes*
Billboard: Bella Thorne and Prince Fox
I had the pleasure of directing Bella Thorne and Prince Fox at Billboard for a segment. Heck I even got to quickly design the background for them. There might be a flamingo somewhere? They were super sweet, hilarious and great to work with annnnd fashionably appareled. We worked well together and boy do they have a story for you! STAY TUNED. XO
Chris Robinson asked me some questions unrelated to animation:
https://www.awn.com/animationworld/i-have-question-leah-shore?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook
Proud to say that I have been involved in two pilots at Tribeca. It is the first year that they have pilots and they chose three! :O
The EYESLICER…I directed the bumpers and a short (Cookies (unsure if it is actually in the episode that plays at Tribeca, but it is in fact in the show))
and
Onur Turkels
Black Magic for White Boys where I act in it. I play Leah the intern.
Leah Shore's Blarg 