After two decades directing shorts, commercials, and music videos, writer-director Isaiah Saxon makes his official feature-length debut with The Legend of Ochi, a richly imagined, Amblin-influenced family-oriented fantasy-adventure set in a semi-contemporary mythical Eastern Europe.   Bolstered by  environmental themes, a visually stunning palette, on-location cinematography that makes the film look far more expensive than its actual cost, and another scene-stealing turn by Willem Dafoe as a half-crazed creature hunter, The Legend of Ochi suggests great, possibly greater things to come for Saxon as a filmmaker.    The Legend of Ochi centers on Yuri, a seemingly lonely teen living on a rundown farm with her father, Maxim (Dafoe), a hunter obsessed with hunting down and killing the not-so-mythical, forest...

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