Blood Tea and Red String is an amazing, epic stop-motion animated feature written, produced, animated, and directed by Christiane Cegavske - who also built every character and film set. An exceptional score by composer Mark Growden anchors a surreal story of love and greed, creation and loss, life and death, and the struggle between the aristocratic White Mice and the rustic ‘Creatures Who Dwell Under the Oak”. The Mice commission the Oak Dwellers to create a beautiful doll for them. When she is complete, the Creatures fall in love with her and refuse to give her up. Resorting to thievery the Mice abscond with her in the middle of the night. The Oak Dwellers must journey through this mystical land to reclaim the love they created.

Cegavske began work on Blood Tea and Red String in June of 1993 (without external funding), and completed her other-worldly award-winning project 13 years later, and is now working on the second part of a proposed trilogy (which is scheduled to be presented at the Idaho Film Festival in 2019).