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Alisa Stern
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🥯 Brooklyn
🎨 Filmmaker / Animator / Puppet Fabricator
📼 Now playing at fests: VHX
✨ Animation is a medium not a genre
😸😽 Merwyn & Barnaby
🚫 AI 🚫
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doctorpuppet.bsky.social
Choo choo, wankers! VHX is heading to @chattfilmfest.bsky.social! See ya there! 📼🚂

#chattfilmfest25 #GoDieAI
May 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Reposted by Alisa Stern
twosocksfilm.bsky.social
Two Socks Film has reach 41%! With just 5 days to go we need 80% or bust. Signed with Mulberry Queens Films for production. AND since we hit 7k today I’m posting my storyboard animatic of the opening scene tonight!
Please keep sharing and pledging. thank you! 🙏🧦❤️🎥

seedandspark.com/fund/twosock...
Two Socks Film storyboard
February 17, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Alisa Stern
twosocksfilm.bsky.social
seedandspark.com/fund/twosock...
Only 10 days to reach 80% of 16k goal or get Nothing At All.
Currently at 22%!
Could you please pledge any amount and share with anyone who would like to be apart of a short indy film about socks in love? Thank you!🙏 🧦 🎥
Two Socks - Film and Storytelling | Seed&Spark
It’s an 80% or nothing crowdfunding campaign. Two Socks is a live-action and animated rom-com by award-winning filmmaker Christi Bertelsen, whose work has been featured on PBS and at the Smithsonian. With puppetry, stop-motion, and live-action, this charming tale needs your support to come to life.
seedandspark.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:03 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
I’m gonna animate some socks… with your help. Please support this cool film! 🧦👀
twosocksfilm.bsky.social twosocksfilm.bsky.social @twosocksfilm.bsky.social · Jan 25
A pair of socks are tragically separated in a New York laundromat and end up in the wardrobes of two strangers. In their little quest to reunite, will these cotton soulmates possibly bring together very human ones?
With puppetry and animation

We need 20k!

twosocksfilm.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:09 AM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
Update... VHX won Best Lo-Budget Short Film! Definitely the coolest award I've ever gotten at a fest. Thank you @londonshortfilm.bsky.social! 👏👏👏
A glass trophy sits on a table next to a VHS tape.
January 30, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Reposted by Alisa Stern
twosocksfilm.bsky.social
Please Share :)

🎬 Introducing my queer romcom about SOCKS! 🧦💖
Fundraiser:
seedandspark.com/fund/twosock...
Live action and animation. Yes, you read that right—it's a heartwarming, fun, love story... about socks! Let’s bring this story to life! 🌈
#sva #svafilmdirecting #svanyc #lgbtq
January 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
What a year for films and festivals! Hard to believe I had two films playing at fests in 2024. Spiral to the Center wrapped up its fest fun then VHX kicked off its own just a couple months later! What will 2025 bring? Keep an eye out! 👀✨

#indiefilm #stopmotion #animation #horror
December 31, 2024 at 8:10 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
Today marks 10 years (!!!) since the release of my favorite Doctor Puppet video. I could say so much about The Planet That Came For Christmas. It was a true team effort that came together so beautifully. 🖤🖤

youtu.be/0Ak4B0nhNzk?...

#doctorpuppet #doctorwho #petercapaldi #stopmotion #animation
December 23, 2024 at 3:21 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
Wow! VHX is part of the London Short Film Festival Lo-Budget Mayhem screening! 😱📼💀

#LSFF #LSFF25 #indiefilm #shortfilm #stopmotion #animation

www.riocinema.org.uk/movie/lsff-l...
LSFF: Lo-Budget Mayhem 2025 + Intros
One of LSFF’s most popular annual programmes returns with a cracking collection of oddities, hand-crafted from the confines of our empty wallets and our mortal bodies. The sets are made of found newsp...
www.riocinema.org.uk
December 3, 2024 at 12:32 AM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
ROUND

#cat #catsofbluesky
November 28, 2024 at 4:14 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
A peregrine falcon visiting me and my cats last week. 🙀🙀

#birding #brooklyn #catsofbluesky #birds #cats
a peregrine falcon sits on a balcony railing as two curious cats admire it through a glass balcony door
November 22, 2024 at 2:58 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
ROUND

#cat #catsky #catsofbluesky
November 21, 2024 at 10:48 PM
Reposted by Alisa Stern
brooklyncattery.bsky.social
Cat and toddler show
November 21, 2024 at 10:17 PM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
Here's another film I'm super proud of! It's a stop motion animated horror short I made in my apartment during the pandemic. It played at some really awesome film fests.

youtu.be/lx83ZcH3foY?...

#stopmotion #animation #stopmotionanimation #horror #shortfilm
Posted No Hunting | Award-Winning Stop Motion Animated Found Footage Horror Short | Oddframe Films
YouTube video by Oddframe Films
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 2:14 AM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
Guess I should start sharing things here, huh?

Spiral to the Center dropped on YouTube a few weeks ago! It’s a mockumentary / found footage film with some sci-fi and horror elements. If that’s your jam, you’ll love it!

youtu.be/IP-v7txo1bs?...

#indiefilm #foundfootage #horror #filmmaker #film
Spiral to the Center | Award-Winning Mockumentary & Found Footage Featurette | Oddframe Films
YouTube video by Oddframe Films
youtu.be
November 20, 2024 at 2:11 AM
doctorpuppet.bsky.social
I finally deleted my account from the ✨other✨ place. Now where are all the indie animators and filmmakers at? 👋

Here's a still from my new stop motion short, VHX!

#animator #filmmaker #stopmotionanimation #newtobluesky #hello
November 7, 2024 at 1:26 AM