Misophonia is an official selection of the Mystic Film Festival which will take place in Mystic, Connecticut from October 19-22, 2023. Misophonia will be part of the Short Film Block 4: Spotlight on Women Directors on Saturday, October 21 at 4:30pm in the Mystic Luxury Cinemas. Linda will be present for a Q&A afterwards. More information on the Mystic Film Festival website.

Misophonia will be part of the Best of the Fest series presented by the Woods Hole Film Festival at the Cotuit Center for the Arts on Cape Cod. Misophonia was runner up for Best Animated Short jury award at this years Festival. The series runs from October 8-11, Misophonia will be in the Award Winning Shorts 2 block on Tuesday, October 10 at 6pm.

Misophonia will be part of the New York State International Film Festival in Albany, New York which runs from September 22-23, 2023. This festival is dedicated to shorts, all films are 30 minutes and under. More information to come.

Misophonia is an official selection of the Bridgeport Film Fest which will be screening over 90 films between September 8-10 at the Klein Memorial Auditorium in Bridgeport, Connecticut. More info to come.

Misophonia has been selected to screen at the 9th Annual Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival in Vermont between August 23-27, 2023. More information to come.

Misophonia is part of the new Handmade Puppet Dreams Frights and Delights collection screening at the 2023 International Puppet Fringe Festival NYC on Thursday, August 4 at 4pm, and again on Sunday August 13 at 11am. I’ll be there for the artist talk back right after the Thursday 4pm screening along with filmmakers and HPD producers Alex Griffin and Jessica Simon, fellow cohort Jaime Sunwoo, and HPD founder Heather Henson. The Festival is an avalanche of workshops and performances by puppetry artists from all over the world and runs from Aug 9-18 at Teatro SEA at 107 Suffolk Street in NYC.

Misophonia will be in the Handmade Puppet Dreams line up of films at Bonnaroo in Manchester, TN on June 16 & 17, 2023. Going from midnight to 4am, puppet films that are part of the Handmade Puppet Dreams series will screen non-stop in the House of Yes Night Owl Cinema.

Misophonia will be part of the Coney Island Film Festival at Coney Island USA in Brooklyn, New York, an important place in the history of The Stringpullers Puppet Co. We will be attending all days of the festival which runs from May 5-7, 2023. Misophonia is part of Program 11: Animation on Sunday, May 7 at 1pm. Tickets are online at the Coney Island Film Festival website.

Our short Handmade Puppet Dreams film has been accepted into its 6th film festival, this one close to home. Misophonia will screen at the Blackbird Film Festival in Cortland, NY, a festival hosted by SUNY Cortland. We’ll be attending all three days of events from April 28-30, 2023. Misophonia will be part of the Life, Animated block of short films on Saturday, April 29 at 1:30pm. Tickets are free. More information on the Blackbird Film Festival website.

Two of our films, Misophonia and words are birds will be screened at the Karakulit International Shadow Puppet Festival in Pécs, Hungary. They’ll be part of a block of films shown from April 20-22, which also include work from Chipotle Teatro (Mexico), Cia. Lumiato (Brazil), Cia. Olveira Salcedo (Spain), and Tadeusz Wierzbicki (Poland). From the Festival:

As a part of the World Festival of Puppets, between April 19th and 23th, the second edition of the Karakulit International Shadow Puppet Festival will take place, organised by the Márkus Theatre. The festival is an interdisciplinary hub for theatre, fine arts and the history of arts, where in addition to traditional shadow theatre masters, European contemporary and experimental shadow theatre performers are also on display.

A total of 23 performances from 12 countries will be presented during the 5 days of the festival. In addition, an exhibition presenting the traditions of shadow theatre and numerous experimental workshops will await the professional audience, and everyone interested in this form of theatre.

Misophonia will be part of the Underexposed Film Festival yc in South Carolina, March 22-25, 2023. This is an especially exciting festival because of its recognition of live-action puppet films as a distinct art form. Misophonia will screen with Last Looks on the final Saturday evening at 7pm at Winthrop University. Find the line up on Underexposed Film Festival yc.