Twinz n' Magic Productions
HAPPY NEW YEAR! We will be at the Palm Springs International Film Festival Jan. 2-12 2026!
So many terrific films to see and so much talent to meet with! Come say Hi if you're around!
10/01/2025
On the Voice Over front USA ~ Cast & recorded for the 2026 Courage Award Gala held in NYC
Humbled and honored to be part of their work and the causes they fight for, in this capacity.
07/22/2025
Papochka has made the list of films that are eligible for the 2026 French Césars - Best Short Films category!
A total of 198 short films will be screened, out of which 24 will be selected. Good luck to "Papochka"!
01/25/2025
On the Acting front USA ~ Cast as "Lexi" in Civic Films untitled upcoming film! Production to start in Southern California 2026.
01/24/2024
On the Acting front USA ~ Cast as 'Natalia' in Lada Egorova's upcoming film, Papochka!
The film will be shot entirely in Russian. Production to start in February, in Southern California
08/13/2022
On the Acting front UK ~ Cast as 'Truvy' in Steel Magnolias, produced for the stage by The Dartington Playgoers.
Rehearsals to begin in September for a November opening!
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Scotland is calling! from Glasgow up to Aberdeen and across to Shetland!
See you in the New Year!
08/24/2019
On the Acting front UK ~ Cast on stage in Blood Money directed in the UK by Anna Reynolds
Show to open at The Little Theatre in Torquay on October 14th. Book your seats & get your tickets now!
05/18/2019
On the Acting front USA ~ Overjoyed to share that Bruna Matsin has won the BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS AWARD at the
Under the Stars International Film Festival, for her role as 'Ms. Rodaz' in Nicolas Alayo's film Playing Ourselves, while Nicolas Alayo went on to winn the BEST DIRECTOR Award! Double joy to share and celebrate and what an honor this is!
02/17/2019
On the Acting front UK ~ Cast in Left Behind directed by Bruno Faria & written by Edward Butler!
Filming in Portsmouth, England throughout the month of March.
07/28/2018
On the Acting front UK ~ Hello England and Hiya, Macbeth! Cast on stage as Lady Macduff in the touring "Scottish play".
Rehearsals to begin in Devon this summer!
04/18/2018
On the Acting front USA ~ Bruna will be playing "Mildred" on film, in Shannon Thomson's (awesome) short The Town that Time Forgot!
We proudly support the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts!
04/11/2018
On the Acting front USA ~ Cast in Flowerbud Enterainment's upcoming feature film, On the Fence, directed by Luciana Caplan
Filming in Los Angeles this spring.
03/26/2018
On the Acting front USA ~ What a special treat to have been cast in Nicolas Alayo's upcoming film, Playing Ourselves
Production to begin in May, in Southern California.
08/28/2016
And The Fairy & The Princess WINS the Final Draft Award for BEST SHORT SCREENPLAY at SDIKFF 2016!!
Thank you so much, SDIKFF!!
08/03/2016
We are absolutely thrilled to introduce Raphael Fimm as our Music Composer for our upcoming animated short The Fairy & The Princess.
Raphael will bring his talent (and European touch!) to the rest of our team. Welcome on-board Raphael!
08/02/2016
Hoping everyone is having an awesome summer!
Twinz n' Magic Productions has been busy relocating this summer and with that move comes more exciting festival news! The Fairy & The Princess screenplay has been selected and will be competing at the San Diego Internationl Kids Film Festival! Aug. 26-28, 2016: Join us there if you can! We were there with The Lollipop Thief last year and cannot wait to return this year!
04/02/2016
And a new festival selection for The Lollipop Thief! Thank you, CMS Children's International Film Festival in Lucknow, INDIA! We are so excited to be part of World Cinema series line-up and to be screening TWICE: Sat. 4/9 at 9am in Theatre 3 & Thurs. 4/14 at 12:30pm in Theatre 4. Cherry on top: we're in the run for the Audience Award! Congrats to all fellow-filmmakers who have also been selected!
03/01/2016
Fans of Who Stole the Ruby Slippers?
You can now order your DVD here! http://www.whostoletherubyslippers.com/
01/14/2016
OSCARS 2016
It's always a special honor to have your film programmed alongside others that end up being nominated later for an Oscar®! Oscar nominations were just announced and we are SO proud and excited for Jamie Donoughue and his most excellent film Shok, which is nominated in the Best Live Action Short category this year. The Lollipop Thief had the privilege to be an official selection alongside Shok at the San Jose International Short Film Festival this past October.
Also huge congrats to David Darg and Brynn Mooser whose short documentary Body Team 12 was part of our screening group at AFI DOCS 2015 this past June, with our own Who Stole the Ruby Slippers?.
We are wishing you guys the best of luck for this 2016 Oscar race!
12/31/2015
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
2015 has been a wonderful year for Twinz n' Magic Productions' projects! Thank you so much for your support!
We cannot wait to share more great film news with you soon but in the mean time, we want to wish you all a safe and most joyful New Year's eve! Have a fabulous NEW YEAR and see you soon in 2016!
12/28/2015
We were honored to have our screenplay for The Fairy & The Princess among the nominees for Best Short Screenplay at this year Back in the Box Competition, and we want to congratulate the winners who were just announced! Bravo, and thank you to Back in the Box for including us to their terrific competition!
12/12/2015
We are SO thrilled to celebrate the last screening of the year for The Lollipop Thief, in Los Angeles!
As we are about to screen in the gorgeous Bing Theatre thanks to the wonderful Los Angeles International Children's Film Festival and thanks to LACMA, we were also just notified that The Fairy & The Princess screenplay is an OFFICIAL SELECTION with the BACK IN THE BOX COMPETITION! WOOHOO!! What a terrific morning! Wishing everyone a fabulous weekend!
11/15/2015
It's now official! The Lollipop Thief has been selected by the terrific LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL! We are tremendously excited and so thankful to their staff and programming team!
The Lollipop Thief will be part of the festival Laugh Out Loud program and will screen at the LACMA Bing Theatre, Satuday December 12th at 10:30am! JOIN US!
11/06/2015
It is Opening Day at the INTERNATIONAL FAMILY FILM FESTIVALl! Join us at the Raleigh Studios!
So happy The Fairy & The Princess gets to be one of their OFFICIAL SELECTIONS this year!
10/27/2015
Hello from Adelaide, AUSTRALIA!
The Lollipop Thief couldn't be more excited to be there! Screening to begin at 10:30am in the beautiful Youthoria Cinema of Port Lincoln!
10/24/2015
The Lollipop Thief had such an outstanding screening experience at the SAN JOSE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTVAL this morning! So honored and grateful to have been included amongst 10 other outstanding short-films in the JUST FOR KIDS program! Wonderful venue, awesome audience, top notch screening quality, this was a real treat; THANK YOU, SJSFF!!
10/22/2015
And it's OPENING DAY at the San Jose International Short Film Festival! We are so excited and cannot wait to see you all there! Join us at the Santana Row for a unique film fest' experience this weekend!
10/06/2015
More laurels for The Lollipop Thief! And they come from...AUSTRALIA!
Tremendously excited to share that our film has been selected by the ADELAIDE KIDS FILM FESTIVAL where we will have the honor to screen on Oct. 27 at 10:30am! And we can't wait!
10/01/2015
Some very exciting news on the Who Stole the Ruby Slippers? front today, as we're happy to announce and share that our documentary is now an OFFICIAL SELECTION with the outstanding HOT SPRINGS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL!
Arkansas, here we come!
09/26/2015
Yesterday, we celebrated The Fairy & The Princess's Third Place Win with Scriptamation, and today, we will be celebrating a new OFFICIAL SELECTION with the fabulous INTERNATIONAL FAMILY FILM FESTIVAL!! Thank you so much for including our screenplay to your 2015 line-up, IFFF!
09/25/2015
Aaaaand...The Fairy & The Princess WINS the Third Place Award with SCRIPTAMATION, under the Children / Fantasy category!! What a thrilling journey this has been for our screenplay!! Warm Congratulations to all Winners and THANK YOU SO MUCH for this terrific ride, SCRIPTAMATION!
09/14/2015
Good morning y'all! We hope you will be as excited as we are to learn that The Lollipop Thief has been selected by the awesome SAN JOSE INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, for their upcoming 7th edition, and as part of their JUST FOR KIDS pogram! Thank you so much for including us, SJSFF! After premiering in SoCal, we now cannot wait to have our precious NorCal Premiere with YOU!
08/30/2015
WE WON!!!!
The Lollipop Thief WON the BEST FAMILY SHORT FILM AWARD at the incredible San Diego International Kids' Film Festival!! This is a day Cast & Crew will never forget and we can't express our gratitude enough to the SDIKFF programming team, its wonderful staff and jury members! THANK YOU SO MUCH! You made our very first film festival experience a dream!