The Comfort of the Mundane: Why ‘Lucy Schulman’ Succeeds by Embracing the Low-Stakes Indie Trope

In the landscape of modern independent cinema, there is a recurring archetype: the adrift, creative New Yorker, perpetually hovering on the precipice of adulthood but never quite stepping over the…

The Ten-Year Odyssey: How Xilam Turned Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Listen to the Moon’ into ‘Lucy Lost’

By Jamie Lang | May 19, 2026 After a painstaking decade-long development process, celebrated French producer Marc du Pontavice and his powerhouse studio, Xilam Animation, have finally unveiled their long-gestating…