https://www.sandglassfilm.com/sandglassfilm daily 0.75 2018-08-20 https://www.sandglassfilm.com/supermario daily 0.75 2026-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/da885c40-89cd-46ee-8a80-a2c111558e6b/treatment_moodboard.jpg supermario - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.sandglassfilm.com/birdsonly daily 0.75 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/149a1010-aa3a-4673-96da-6dcba52d36a6/benhirt.jpg birdsonly - Written & Directed by BEN HIRT is a filmmaker based out of London UK. Ben's professional career in film and television allowed him to work throughout various countries in Europe, before furthering his education at the Film/ Animation/ Video Department of the Rhode Island School of Design RISD [BFA], as well as The London Film School [MA Screenwriting]. His film- and animation work has screened at festivals including the New York Short Film Festival as well as Times Square in New York City. Over the past 10 years, Ben has been is teaching as part time faculty and senior lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, the University of the Arts Philadelphia as well as Columbia University of New York City. Ben is currently Year One Leader of the BA Animation Course at the University of the Arts London [Moving image & Digital Arts Program]. https://www.benhirt.com/ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/5ccef39f-54e6-4c40-ac05-814789b3e8f7/padmini.jpg birdsonly - Produced by Produced by padmini devi narumanchi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/8b6c1b47-dc67-45ec-bc23-8ccccd7715be/Ram%2BDevineni.jpg birdsonly - Produced by RAM DEVINENI is a documentary filmmaker, technologist, and founder of Rattapallax. He produced The Russian Woodpecker, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award. The film was purchased by Amazon and shown in commercial theaters in New York City and Los Angeles. His most recent film, The Karma Killings, about the Nithari serial killings was out exclusively on Netflix worldwide. The Karma Killings is hailed as “true crime watershed moment” in India. He is the multimedia editor at the Virginia Quarterly Review, and the founder and editor of Rattapallax magazine, which has received numerous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and New York State Council for the Arts. In addition, he co-founded Brazil’s first and biggest independent film school, Academia Internacional de Cinema with branches in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. He is the co-creator of the comic book, Priya’s Shakti, Priya’s Mirror, and Priya and the Lost Girls which received the Tribeca Film Institute New Media Fund from the Ford Foundation and supported by the World Bank, and showcased at 2016 New York Film Festival. For creating India’s first female superhero who is a rape survivor, he was named a “gender equality champion” by UN Women and named by Fast Company magazine as one of the most creative people in business in 2017. He was a featured speaker at hundreds of festivals such as TEDx at London Museum, Dresher Center for the Humanities, ARTBO in Bogota, Delhi Comic Convention, Myriad Festival in Australia, Bookwork Festival in Beijing, Games for Change Festival, Cooler Lumpur Literary Festival, and SXSW Interactive. https://www.rattapallax.com/ https://www.sandglassfilm.com/projects daily 1.0 2025-07-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/1571040295021-LO4UJ8MKHF1NY2J8HB5X/projects.jpg projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/1570989738970-OGQM9MFY5EN2Q9NSTF30/cuban_opera.00_18_36_04.Still001.jpeg projects - Birds Only https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/1570989495974-TE90A55WTFFLJ7H523CH/SUPERMARIO_DDUMBO_v36_12MIN.00_12_12_12.Still008.jpg projects - SUPERMARIO - the hype of technological innovations - https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54bd0c37e4b0b5bb4bf5062e/1570989084345-DW5UTZLIH9H7FLCHX9ZD/musa.jpg projects - MUSA - a million letters - https://www.sandglassfilm.com/support daily 0.75 2019-10-13 https://www.sandglassfilm.com/musa daily 0.75 2019-10-15 https://www.sandglassfilm.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-01-19