The baby creature from “The Legend of Ochi” has captured the internet’s heart — just as its creators intended.

Writer/director Isaiah Saxon's The Legend of Ochi begins with protagonist Yuri (Helena Zengel) regaling viewers with details ...

Sundance Film Festival screened several exciting films from January 23 to February 2, 2025. Among them was The Legend of Ochi ...

Jami Gertz’s life story could be fit for the big screen. After growing up in a working-class family in Glenview, Illinois, ...

The Legend of Ochi writer-director Isaiah Saxon talks about making the adorable creature at the heart of the movie’s fantasy ...

From fires to spooky Transylvanian forests, Aptos native Isaiah Saxon encountered it all while filming “The Legend of Ochi.” ...

Writer and director Isaiah Saxon was very much reflecting on the Santa Cruz Mountains and their redwood forests when devising ...

For Saxon, who makes his feature debut with The Legend of Ochi, seeing the puppet was the culmination of years' worth of ...

The writer-director, Isaiah Saxon, was born and raised in Aptos. The movie is Saxon's own original story. IMDb described the film as follows: "In a remote village on the island of Carpathia ...

The Legend of Ochi’ offers a creature feature that definitely marches to the beat of its own drum, featuring the likes of ...

We all kind of think we know what VFX looks like — or at least what bad VFX looks like. We can often feel when ...

Isaiah Saxon’s feature directorial debut, The Legend of Ochi, is a tenderly woven tapestry of myth, nature, and the ...