Buzzco Associates

09/05/2025

On Friday August 15th, I joined many of the contributors to the New York City premiere of “Land of the Mustaches” a film by Rutanya Alda, in which I created animated sequences. It’s a 90-minute personal memoir, and quoting from Rick Hamilton (managing director of Chain NYC Film Festival):

“Here she recounts the story of her harrowing childhood when she and members of her family were refugees during and after WWII. It is a vibrant memory piece that showcases Alda’s talent for storytelling. Her recollections… are vividly rendered and enhanced with animated images… While “Land of the Mustaches” is a pretty much a filmed monologue, it is wholly engrossing and life-affirming.”

The film won both the Best Personal Story and the coveted Audience Award at the Chain NYC Film festival.

For more about the animated sequences, click

Land of the Mustaches is an autobiographical story of a young girl growing up in the Displaced Persons refugee camps with her mother and grandmother after World War II left them starving and stateless, and her father's disappearance into Stalin's notorious Gulag labor camps in Siberia —two hard pa...

08/29/2025

Please come to Metrograph to MADE IN NEW YORK: Best of NYC Indie Animation program! I’ll be showing Vincent Cafarelli and my first indy film “A Warm Reception in L.A.” I’ll be there joining legends of NYC animation scene to answer your questions! Saturday September 13 at 5pm.

You can find tickets on sale here; https://metrograph.com/film/?vista_film_id=9999004463 Share with friends, your classes, and anyone you think would like to attend.

Just as New York has long been the capital of America’s artistically ambitious “Second Cinema,” a scrappy foil to the Los Angelino industry of…

07/29/2025

This came in the mail this week-- Thank you Houston Worldfest Festival!
It reminded me about how much of this film was predicted before events overwhelmed us. It was started in the spring of 2023, before the Hamas attack in October. It questioned where our increased isolation was coming from-- who was profiting from our national distrust, fear and hatred of the "other". And this was before the election and our current administration. It predicted the rise in anti-Semitism and the call for understanding and unity. I gave up on the festivals because it was seen as too political and controversial. I don't pride myself as a Cassandra, but you can see Market of Hate (https://vimeo.com/905191255) on Vimeo-- its password is MARKET2024.

08/13/2024

Over the summer we made a music video to Nora York's "In the Morning" a song about resilience in a season crying out for it! Today would have been Nora's birthday and here's a small clip and a link to the post on buzzco.nyc's site! https://buzzco.nyc/in-the-morning-2/

05/28/2024

This is the trailer for our latest film ,Market of Hate https://vimeo.com/939194943

In March of 2023 I woke up with a whispered warning—lyrics for a new film. Longtime collaborator Lanny Meyers wrote the music. This whisper turned into a full-throated shout after October 7th and I kept amending it until it was finished in March 2024.

I made it as a cry for compassion, the need to resist to the powerful forces that promote fear and hatred who create divisions in order to increase their own power and wealth.

We are in the process of trying to get it into festivals so it cannot be streamed online. Here is the trailer and you can email Buzzco to get the password protected link.

A 6-minute animated film, Market of Hate began as a whisper in March 2023. The whisper became a deafening shout on October 7th. It's a cry for compassion, our…

04/02/2024

We just heard that "A Tale of Two Weddings" just received the Best Animation prize from the Budapest International Film Festival!l You can watch it here https://buzzco.nyc/a-tale-of-two-weddings/