Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes

By Tambay A. Obenson | Shadow and Act  IndieWire.com

We featured the fundraising campaign for this project a couple of years ago, in early 2013 - one whose description really intrigued. It did eventually surpass its goal, raising over $46,000, and, earlier this year, it made its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) as part of the “Signals: What the F?!”-themed section.

Titled “The Strange Eyes of Dr. Myes,” from writer/director Nancy Andrews (her feature debut),.the filmmaker describes it as an “original indy, musical, animation, schlock-opera, science-fiction, micro-budget, alternative dramatic feature film.”

Rotterdam called a “cinematographic marriage between ‘mad-scientist’ Hollywood dramas from the 1930s, and juicy B-films from the 1960s - with an eccentric strong female scientist as protagonist, for a change.” 

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