"The Legend of Ochi," out April 25, stars Helena Zengel alongside Finn Wolfhard, best known from his role as Mike Wheeler on ...

A new A24 fantasy film helmed by a California native preaches reconciliation between man and beast. It hits home in a state ...

For $10 million, Isaiah Saxon creates a fantasy world more real and emotionally resonant than anything we've seen from the $300 million projects churned out every year. The Legend of Ochi is a ...

Filmmaker Isaiah Saxon says he loves to make movies about strange creatures both hairy and human, and his feature debut “The Legend of Ochi” has some good ones, thanks in ...

To make “The Legend of Ochi,” writer-director Isaiah Saxon borrowed a little piece of “E.T.,” some of “The Neverending Story” ...

For director Isaiah Saxon, who makes his feature debut with The Legend of Ochi, that realism was key to developing the Ochi's look. "The intention behind the design of the Ochi was that a kid or ...

“The Legend of Ochi” centers around young farmer Yuri (Helena Zengel), who finds a lost mythical creature called an ochi and ...

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

When director Isaiah Saxon began his search for the voice of Ochi, the titular creature in his new film, The Legend of Ochi, he didn’t look to established actors, but YouTube. “I typed in ...

And if you peer into the trees, you may just spot an elusive primate called the ochi. ISAIAH SAXON: Ochi is simply the word they use for eyes, which is all they ever see of them when they shine ...