752 Author Neil Gaiman has announced on his weblog that MirrorMask will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, one of the most presitgious (and commercially important) film festivals in the United States.



The film is a weird Alice in Wonderland sort of tale, where a young girl named Helena travels into a dream world to help her sick mother by finding the MirrorMask. The fantasy world was rendered in CGI using a render farm of Macs. Dave McKean, who is directing the movie, also created the computer images, blending them with real actors who worked in empty blue sets.



The other remarkable thing about the film (other than its visuals) was the relatively low cost of production. Gaiman, speaking at a recent convention, said that the Henson company had called the pair after noticing that Labyrinth and The Dark Crysta, two films widely regarded as bombs, had actually become consistent, profitable sellers on DVD and VHS. Henson and Sony then asked Gaiman and McKean to create a movie in that vein.



But while those movies had budgets in the tens of millions of dollars, MirrorMask has a budget of four. But in exchange for that, Gaiman said, they were given artistic freedom to produce their vision of the film. As you can see from these additional pictures from Comics2Film.com (which is where the images from this article came), the look is amazing.

Bill's been using Macs since the late 80s. When he's not making smartass remarks to amuse Kirk Hiner, he enjoys fighting for the user.

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