We Are The Strange
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Film Overview

Directed By: M Dot Strange View Official Website	Release Date: 2007-08-13 Running Time: 1:34 Content Rating: PG14 (Parental Guidance)	DVD Region: All Regions Media Format: NTSC-DVD Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Audio Language(s): English Subtitle Language(s): Japanese, Spanish, German, English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, French
Genres: Animation & Anime >> Computer Animation :: Animation & Anime >> Anime & Manga :: Animation & Anime >> Feature Films

Synopsis

Blue is a young girl navigating the streets of a terrifying, sinister fantasy world all alone. When she meets Emmm, a fellow lost soul, she joins him on a quest for some ice cream. Upon arriving, they realize the ice cream shop has been taken over by dark forces, and the whole city is teeming with evil. Bizarre monsters surround Blue and Emmm on all sides until Rain, a sadistic hero, arrives to rescue them and exterminate the source of the evil.

We Are the Strange is its own imaginative and immersive universe. M dot Strange spent three years painstakingly creating this film, using a range of animation techniques--traditional, stop-motion, computer, and his own unique blend of 8-bit graphics and anime, dubbed "Str8nime." The stunning visuals are complemented by a soundtrack that is both beautiful and harrowing. The end result is a freaky technocarnival ride that climaxes with a momentous battle between innocence and darkness.

Crew

Director: M Dot Strange | bio
Legally insane professional weirdo. One man evil animation studio. Like’s ramen and udon noodles, the Oakland A’s, coffee, and wearing mismatched sox. Says the word “hella” like hella. Used to be a video game thug rapper wearing a Powerglove and touring public toilets. Made “We are the Strange” because grey aliens from the future programmed him to do so. Lives with a green screen and a bunch of rattling computers. Made over 70 live action and animated short films and one live action feature before “We are the Strange” Has a bike.

Bonus Features

Making Of Featurette
Scene Selections
Interactive Menus
Outtakes
Deleted & Extended Scenes
Director Commentary
Video Production Diaries
Behind the Scenes

Accolades

Awards

Golden Prize "Most Groundbreaking Film" Fantasia Film Festival Montreal 2007
WINNER HDFEST Deffie Award for Best HD Feature Film 2007
WINNER HDFEST Deffie Award for Best Director of an HD Feature Film 2007
M dot Strange chosen as one of the "25 new faces of independent film" Filmmaker

Festivals

Official Selection Sundance Film Festival 2007
Official Selection Resfest Brazil 2007
Official Selection Cinequest Film Festival 2007
Official Selection Fantasia Film Festival 2007

Press Reviews

Variety | show/hide snippet
"it is fascinating"
IONCINEMA | show/hide snippet
"If you’ve been waiting for something new, something engaging and hypnotic and awe-inspiring, this is the film you’ve been waiting for"
Wired.com | show/hide snippet
"The handmade quality makes We Are the Strange like no other animation you've seen. Strange's influences include Japanese Kabuki theater, Lajos Egri's book The Art of Dramatic Writing and Tecmo's early Ninja Gaiden games"
Film Arts Foundation | show/hide snippet
"We Are the Strange looks like no other film and M dot Strange is like no other filmmaker. His imagination comprises a vast wilderness which only he can chart"
NY Times | show/hide snippet
"he (M dot Strange) represents a new paradigm of filmmaking that could have a profound effect on the traditional models of film production, distribution and animation"
Second Life Herald | show/hide snippet
"The soundtrack is incredible. The visuals are stunning. The script nails it. If you "get it", if you sit there and let it all sink in and really try to comprehend the bombardment of your senses, you will change"