Indie
Composer — 'The Mirror of Malevolence' (Chapter One)
Recent. Featured in #020 on 19 October 2026.
A dark fantasy pilot told entirely with marionettes and shadow puppetry, adapted from the director's upcoming middle-grade novel. The post says the film has played festivals and won five awards, Audience Choice and Best Animated Film among them. Before releasing it online, the director is exploring an alternate cut with an original score: twinkly, whimsical, dreamy and haunting, in orchestral and lullaby styles, built around a Mirror theme and a theme for its twelve-year-old orphan hero. A digitally produced orchestral score on virtual instruments is what is wanted, not a live orchestra. Ask for the running time before you weigh the $1,500 against it.
From issue #020.