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🧿 REMOVAL OF THE EYE in theaters now
🦠 NEW STRAINS now @appletv @memory.is
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New/Next years past captured by @jmgiordanophoto … the 2026 lineup is fully announced and tickets are on sale and we’re getting ready to give u a weekend literally packed with the best and brightest. I’m pretty stunned by the @newnextfilmfest program this year, and can’t wait to see some movies with you…! Xo @newnextfilmfest ♥️🍿

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So stoked to be finishing off our festival run at FilmQuest!!!

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#LAFM26 OPENING NIGHT PARTY was 🔥🔥🔥 Huge thanks to our party sponsor @losangelesmaterial, drink sponsor @casaazulspirits, and everyone who came out to celebrate the kick-off of another Los Angeles Festival of Movies 👁️
📸: @carly.hildebrant

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Inspired by the cultural clash that took place after moving into the same Manhattan apartment building as Shaw’s parents shortly before their son’s birth, filmmakers Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan turn the lens on themselves as new parents in @removal.of.the.eye.

Kallia and Ram are at their wits’ end with their sleepless baby when they realize Kallia’s Greek mother is on a secret mission to exorcise the family from the evil eye.

Trapped between the pressures of new age parenting, old world superstitions, and meddling in-laws, they fight to hold onto their dreams.

Listen to the full interview at cinemafilepod.com (streaming links in bio).

#filmpodcast #evileye #podcast #removaloftheeye #interview

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“With New Strains, we took the pandemic as a unique opportunity to tell a story we could only tell at that specific time, in that specific way — with a decades-old home video camcorder, improvised dialog, zero crew, and a cast of non-professional friends and family, stuck in very similar situations. Throughout the film, so many documentary moments capture slices of New York life the likes of which we’ll likely never see again.” ARTEMIS SHAW

Last days to watch NEW STRAINS a playful comedy about COVID-era anxieties from a husband-and-wife directing duo. @memory.is

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Last Thursday, #LAFM24 alumni Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan joined us in person @2220arts for the L.A. premiere of their new film REMOVAL OF THE EYE, in conversation with filmmaker Laurel Parmet @laurelparm. 🙌

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Photos: @carly.hildebrant

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Very excited to play BIFF ‘26 !!!

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@pk.mov is just a guy trying to direct his family members

REMOVAL OF THE EYE screens tonight for the first time in NYC.

2/4 @nitehawkcinema Williamsburg with a Q&A moderated by @archdeacon
2/5 @nitehawkcinema Prospect Park with a Q&A moderated by @juliasolomonoff
2/6 @roxycinemanyc with a Q&A moderated by @adamcharlaphyman and with @willcrushwater

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MOVIE REVIEW
Removal of the Eye
NR - 3.5 out of 5 stars

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Year Released: 2024, 2026
Runtime: 1h 33m
Director(s): Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Writer(s): Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan
Cast: Artemis Shaw, Prashanth Kamalakanthan, Katerina Shaw, Niko Kamalakanthan, Tayarisha Poe
Where to Watch: New York Premiere on February 4, 2026 (Nitehawk Williamsburg), February 5 (Nitehawk Prospect Park), and February 6 (Roxy Cinema), with a Los Angeles Premiere set for February 12 at 2220 Arts, presented by Mezzanine. More dates to follow

RAVING REVIEW: What happens to a sense of self when every hour of the day becomes organized around keeping another human alive? REMOVAL OF THE EYE begins from that muted panic, not as a conceptual exercise, but as lived reality, captured in real time by filmmakers Artemis Shaw and Prashanth Kamalakanthan as they document the first year of parenthood without the comfort of distance or hindsight. This isn’t a film about learning lessons or arriving with an understanding of clarity. It’s about survival, and the fragile hope that meaning will emerge once the exhaustion lifts.

Shaw and Kamalakanthan play Kallia and Ram, versions of themselves navigating halted careers, creative frustration, and a sleepless infant whose needs to swallow every available resource. Their lives shrink to the size of their Manhattan apartment, an enclosed space that quickly becomes both sanctuary and trap. The film’s tension doesn’t stem from a single crisis, but from the accumulation of missed sleep, unresolved resentment, unspoken fear, and the creeping sense that something has gone wrong, even if no one can articulate what that is.

The titular “eye” enters the story less as a supernatural threat and more as an emotional accelerant. Kallia’s Greek mother, played by Shaw’s real-life mother Katerina Shaw, believes the family has been cursed, and begins quietly attempting to cleanse it. What could be explored as cultural satire instead becomes far more unsettling...

My full review on my Letterboxd and www.OHMR.us

#OverlyHonestReviews #removaloftheeye

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Raise your hand if you’ve had a disastrous zoom interview!

REMOVAL OF THE EYE screens in NYC Feb 4 and 5 @nitehawkcinema Feb 6 @roxycinemanyc and in LA Feb 12 at @2220arts @mezzaninefilm

Here is an outtake from the film featuring performances by family and friends: my uncle William, @jomofray and Sheree Chen. Special thanks to @thearinncorporation for helping us write this scene. #professionaldevelopment #interviewskills #academia #jobhunting

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REMOVAL OF THE EYE plays for the first time in NYC next week! Q&As after each screening with the filmmakers and moderated by @archdeacon @juliasolomonoff @adamcharlaphyman presented by @cinema_conservancy

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