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OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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Roaches
When giant killer cockroaches attack a small town, a local sheriff must lead a rag tag band of survivors to safety.
Fallen Star
A sci-fi action/adventure about an alien warlord who crash lands on Earth, and an alien warrior who follows him and takes the form of a human woman to track the world down and stop him from conquering Earth.
Night Without Shade
JOHNNY, 33, is hitchhiking in order to meet his fiancee. He asks the driver to stop, because he wants to go to the toilet. While he is on the toilet the car drives away with his entire luggage and all of his money. Johnny calls his fiancee and tells her that he has lost all of his belongings and has to find another way to get to her. He continues his way by foot. On his way he passes a gas station. He stops to spend his last coins in his pocket for some food. He notices some rowdies molesting an obviously RICH MAN, 52, who wants to refuel his car. Johnny approaches the crowd. Unintentionally he chases the hooligans away. The rich man goes on to pay the bill for the gas. Johnny wants to leave too, but when he turns around to go on, he sees a purse on the floor: In the turmoil the rich man lost it. He picks it up and turns around to return it to its owner. But after having a look into the purse and seeing all the money that is in it, he stops: It is too much money to give the purse back! Can he resist the temptation? The rich man cannot pay his bill inside, realizing his purse is not in his pocket anymore. He is returning to his car. Johnny sees the man coming up to him, looks at the car and in the very last moment he decides to jump into the car and to steal it to escape with the money.
OLÉ: RISING ABOVE MITH
In this Charlie Kaufman-esque movie-within-movie world, our
bi-polar, McMurphy-like Layla, becomes the ringleader for wannabe actors who will grab the attention of Leo DiCaprio by redefining how Hemingway defined man - ONLY if she stays off of her meds.
AFFAIR OF THE POISONS, an original
, the 17th Century: In the crucial year 1683 of Louis XIV’s reign, after a series of notorious poisoning and witchcraft trials, Marie-Claire, a young convent girl, travels to Versailles to investigate the circumstances of her older sister’s sudden death. Royal affairs have turned fatal. Strong female character roles, romance, and murder are portrayed with wit and style in this historical thriller.
Robert Smalls Great Escape
Robert Smalls Great Escape is the dramatic and personal true-life story of a young slave, ROBERT SMALLS, who in the midst of the Civil War, risks it all to bring his family to freedom by absconding with a Confederate warship.
The Zombie Effect
A graduate student discovers the truth behind a horrific phenomenon that kills and then reanimates people and races against time to find a cure before its too late.
The Curse of Shakespeare
When grave-robbing The Bard's body unleashes a curse, a lonely middle-aged professor must undo it before he and his co-conspirators are killed in their own Shakespearean tragedies.
Brothers Crossing
After his brother Brandon’s tragic death, David Wright goes on a unpredictable journey of self-discovery and amicable love when he finds a journal left behind by his brother and makes a vow to complete the bucket list therein.
"Steppin' Out!"
At a fictional news magazine in the early seventies, a group of women seek to have the same career options as men. One of the women takes a comic and unconventional route.
In the early seventies, women at NEWSWEEK, READER'S DIGEST, and THE NEW YORK TIMES brought class action gender discrimination suits against their employers. They all won. STEPPIN' OUT! is loosely based on these controversies. But it is more than a David vs. Goliath story. Steppin Out! includes many interesting and likeable characters, a rich vein of humor, and a powerful conclusion.
The Way Back Home
A young boy who loves animals must cope with his father’s insistence that he will someday work in the slaughterhouse that has employed the men of his family for the past several generations. KES meets BILLY ELLIOT.
As The Rose Petals Flow
We follow the life of a woman through the trials & tribulations of The American Experience. Trying to find the greater meaning & settle for what is enough.
Rise up
Rita, a 15 years old girl who wants to be an actress, lives with her troubled mother, Sarah. Rita tries to have a peaceful relationship with her mom, after she is back from rehab. However, that doesn't work out as she expected. Rita will go through hard days and discoveries in the middle of her complicated family. The only thing that Rita wants is to have a normal family and find answers for her own inner questions.
Rivered
A Native American Indian female poker dealer who is a former US Army Infantry Officer must now deal with a couple of troublesome poker players and keep her wits while she struggles with PTSD; in addition, she must battle a vindictive killer to save the life of her psychologist friend as well as her own.
Pipeline
Alaska's 80's oil boom brings excess to a desolate collection of youth-too much money, drugs and the endless party. Black Monday takes everything away overnight, leaving a young woman and her friends to salvage what they can from the rubble of addiction, loss and murder.
ACCEPTANCE IS
A millionaire Entertainment Attorney weds a Pretty, sexy aspiring Actress. He relocates her to America and introduces her to the wealthy and famous lifestyle. He obsesses over her beauty and sensuality, and he abuses her profoundly. She tries to escapes but the secret that binds them together leaves her entrapped. He hires the best to surveillance her and her attempts for freedom is a life or death situation.
The Power of Jasmine
A NASA researcher finds herself caught in a conspiracy that may define the fate of life throughout the Universe.
Do Not Trust in Man
A young, single pastor looses his faith and maybe his freedom when an attractive, devious woman moves into the neighborhood.
The Dominion
It’s 1993. The film follows Ramira Menendez, a young, unhappy, shy teenage girl from Harlem, NY. Working as a part time grocer who deals with everyday struggles and different aspects of life. She deals with her drug addictive mother, Carmen, who puts drugs before her. Also dealing with her mom’s new live-in boyfriend, Carlos, who tries to rape Ramira on the side when her mother isn’t around. Ramira is a die-hard hip-hop head but underestimates her talent and is too shy to perform her work in front of crowds. Her friends Angelo and Sharice push her into pursuing her talents and showing the world what she has to offer.
Hollywood Marines
During World War 2, two big shot Hollywood cameramen get more then they bargained for when they are persuaded to join the war effort as U.S. Army combat cameramen. Assigned to document the bloody Battle of Saipan against the fanatical Japanese Imperial Army, the two shell shocked cameramen must survive the brutal battle in order to bring home their footage to educate the American public about the gruesome realities of war that they filmed.
Somaliland
During 1993's Operation Restore Hope a naive young Navy sailor is inexplicably selected to join a combat U.S Marine unit on a mission to feed the war-torn country of Somalia.
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Post Meridian
A chorus of interrelated characters search for happiness, forgiveness, and a place to call home on a Friday night in Portland, Oregon, in the minutes before a tragedy.
Collapse
When a band of marauders takes her surrogate mother prisoner, River heads out on a rescue mission across a near-future wasteland in search of vengeance.
Videobound
Grouchy film critic Verne Lawrence is living his worst nightmare: he is inexplicably stuck inside three awful movies from different eras and the only way for him to get out is to play the part he’s been assigned. Can he ever find his way home?
White Summer
Ryan J. Smith's award-winning first feature "White Summer" is a dark look at the strained relationship of two cousins following the death of an influential hotel owner.
ANTINEAN
ANTINEAN (pronounced AN-TIN-E-AN) is an epic big-budget tent pole over the top incredible action thrill ride from start to finish with massive worldwide appeal.
Killer App
Can a smartphone app turn you into psychotic killer? A group of 7 travelers find out how bloody hard it can be to resist a new technology even when it is plain deadly.
The Mortality Game
Three unlikely friends, all terminal patients at the same mid-west hospital, decide to embark on one final "last hurrah" road trip across the country, all the while playing a dangerous game of death cheating one-upmanship.
Sin
Set in Lille, France, a reckless criminal sets off a disastrous sequence of events in a troubled young drifter's life by robbing a black market antiquities dealer. The drifter must then contend with internal demons as well as a murderous ultimatum presented to him.
All The Creatures
Trapped in a mountain cabin, a family suffers fantastic changes when an alien Santa Claus tries to fulfill their wishes.
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STAGE FOUR
A controversial new pill is introduced into the world which aims to eradicate man's need for sleep.
Antecedents: God's Harlot
Antecedents unwittingly create mankind’s deadliest enemy.
Reborn
Morgan sets out to unravel the mysteries of her identity, but when the ghosts of her past return to collect her soul, she must fight for her life or suffer the same miserable fate.
Lilith The Vampire
In 1484, in Germany, after travel to the Carpathian Mountains, in Church’s default of appearance, a Knight of the Order of the Cross saves a woman, a prisoner accused of witchcraft, taking her as his wife.
Twelve years later, the knight’s wife discovers a secret book and makes a spellcasting invoking Lilith. Lilith invades the knight’s hut; Lilith kills the knight and transforms the woman on Vampire. Lilith and the woman become lovers.
They cross six centuries and several continents, liberating and transforming other women in vampires.
Finally in 2016 in New York City, they fight a battle with the descendants of the Order of the Cross’ Knights.
DARK RED
Ed, Archer and Anna, are three lost souls, bound together by tragic pasts, that fatefully collide through the course of a dark and twisted road of revenge. Ed, the haunted man that connects them all, invites them into his obsessive and tormented world, that involves an unspeakable crime from his past that has never seen closure, and that has destroyed his past and present and seeming future, and that threatens to do the same to Archer and Anna. Told out of chronological order, in both past and present, predominantly within the year of 2005, we see a night of vengeance unfold, and the events that lead up to it. Ed, a grim and weathered, thirty something man, is the type of character you see at any local watering hole, quietly drinking and toiling away on some unknown and obsessive past time . A tragic turn of events, brought by an event in his past, has lead him to seek out someone to carry out a desperate and violent act, spurred by his vengeance. Ed is unable to carry out the evil acts himself, as he is slowly going blind due to a severe symptom of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has taken it's toll on him in more ways than one. His eye is on Archer, a recently released parolee with a violent past and a penchant for standing up to bullies, due to his abusive childhood. Ed also finds a connection and outlet with Anna, a young woman with an equally tragic past whom he meets at a PTSD meeting and begins to build trust in. As Ed's story and motives unfold in the past tense, we see the lead up, and eventual carnage unfold on one eventful night. Soon the past and present align and the secrets that haunt Ed, Archer and Anne, come to a head, as their fates collide and the finality of their decisions are etched in dark red, as a masked killer makes his way through their urban sprawl on a deliberate path and mission
UPCOMING LIVE EVENTS
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