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We’re excited to announce the premiere of our short video, Name Change, today in the New York Times’ Op Docs.  The piece is a teaser for our new film Project Dad, about LGBT families (currently in production).  The music is by Chris Bathgate.

If you would like to support Project Dad, please MAKE A DONATION via our fiscal sponsor, Fractured Atlas.  Your donation will go toward travel expenses, equipment and personnel rentals so that we can shoot interviews with LGBT families, lawmakers and spokespeople this summer and fall.  Thank you for your support!

Explainer Music’s newest music video was posted today on ProPublica.org.  Watch it here:

Sharon and her friends Krishnan, David and Andrew recently created a media company called Explainer Music that focuses on explaining concepts through short videos.  Their first effort is a Super Fly song about super PACs, published on ProPublica.org last week.  Check it out:

Whale Fall won Best Short this past weekend at SFOFF.  Thanks to Ana, Maggie, and everyone at SFOFF for screening our film!

We’re thrilled to announce that ‘Whale Fall’ will screen at the 2012 San Francisco Ocean Film Festival on Sunday, March 11th at 10 a.m. (as part of Program 9).  For more information, and to check out what else is screening, go to the festival’s website, HERE.

Parasites: A User’s Guide will screen at the Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC on February 26th, as part of Observatory’s ‘Body As Funhouse Mirror: Cultural Reflections On the Human Form‘ series.  The screening starts at 6 p.m., and will be followed by a Q&A with director Sharon Shattuck and some friends: Radiolab’s Pat Walters, Scientific American’s Ferris Jabr, helminth researcher Dr. P’ng Loke, and two real life “users” of helminthic therapy.  Please join us for the event, and if there are more questions for the panel than the performance can accommodate, we’ll head upstairs to the café!  Hope to see you there.  And if you cannot make the screening in person, consider hosting your own Parasites viewing party in your city!

Check out the motion typography animation Sharon made for TEDx Manhattan 2012!  Music by the lovely band Palmyra.  [for more information on TEDx Manhattan, go to TEDxManhattan.org]

Whale Fall will screen at Toronto’s Short & Sweet Film Evening on December 12th, 2011!  In case you want to attend in person, here’s their website: shortandsweet.tv.

What happens when a whale dies?

We’re very excited to announce the debut of our newest video, ‘Whale Fall’ on Radiolab’s website.  The video, directed by Sharon Shattuck and Flora Lichtman and shot by Artem Agafonov, was produced as a compliment to Radiolab’s ‘Loops’ episode (in collaboration with producer Lynn Levy).  All puppets and sets were made by Flora and Sharon of high-quality art paper.  We feature the same animals in the video that Lynn includes in the podcast, so a few species are missing, but you’ll get the general idea.  Music by the ever-awesome Rachel’s.

10/14/11 UPDATE: ‘Whale Fall’ is now on boingboing.net as well!

10/17/11 UPDATE:  io9 and Gizmodo, Grist, Treehugger, The Maddow Blog, The Curious Brain, takepart.com, and many more.  Thanks for the love, people!

Parasites: A User’s Guide is now available for purchase!  To buy a DVD, go here.  To read up on hosting a community screening, go here.  Thanks, all!