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 ...

Isaiah Saxon directs the mother Ochi. Credit: A24 For director Isaiah Saxon, who makes his feature debut with The Legend of Ochi, that realism was key to developing the Ochi's look.

SHAPIRO: Isaiah Saxon, thank you so much for talking with us. SAXON: Thank you so much. It was a pleasure. SHAPIRO: He's the writer and director of "The Legend Of Ochi," which is in theaters now.

Director Isaiah Saxon got his start making otherworldly videos for Grizzly Bear and Björk. For his debut feature, a large team created a creature the old-fashioned way.

This is not a problem that "The Legend of Ochi," with its $10 million budget (of which $1 million was set aside for creature work) had to deal with. Saxon told IndieWire he spent a couple years on ...

According to Isaiah Saxon, the film's writer and director, it was a struggle to get The Legend of Ochi made. "The attempt to make the film took longer than the making of the film," he said in an ...

The story around Isaiah Saxon’s feature debut, “The Legend of Ochi,” took a drastic turn, as so many Hollywood stories did, with this month’s Los Angeles fires. Saxon lost his home in the ...

Filmmaker and Aptos native Isaiah Saxon works with an actor in a gorilla suit on the set of "The Legend of Ochi," which lands in theaters this week.