Armless extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Armless tells the story of a man who suffers from Body Integrity Identity Disorder (B.I.I.D.), a real-life psychological condition in which an individual paradoxically doesn't feel “whole” unless he loses one or more major limbs. When he leaves his wife and goes to find a doctor willing to amputate his arms, it triggers a twisted romp filled with mistaken identities, missed chances, and tragic consequences. Strange as it sounds, this real-life condition has sprung up in pop culture with increasing frequency—in episodes of Nip/Tuck and Grey’s Anatomy among others. Unlike many pop culture treatments of B.I.I.D., which aim to shock, Armless explores the metaphorical resonance of this psychological condition—as a symbol for the secrets that all of us have. This dark comedy is a quirkily funny, strangely poignant story about love, lies, marriage…and amputation.

2010 Sundance Film Festival Selection

"Azar deftly crafts a thoughtful, off-kilter farce."
Sundance Film Festival synopsis

"…too weird to miss."
New York Magazine

"An entire cast that brilliantly plays roles tuned to perfection."
Huffington Post

Cast:
Daniel London (Patch Adams / Rent / The Sopranos)
Janel Moloney (Bang Bang You're Dead / Desperate Measures / 'Til There Was You)
Zoe Lister Jones (Salt / State of Play)

Directed by Habib Azar (As the World Turns)

Dark Comedy | HD | 82 minutes | 2010 | USA

Bollywood Beats extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Raj is down on his luck after another unsuccessful Hollywood dance audition but then he meets Jyoti, a woman who convinces him to start a dance class. While unsuccessful at the start, Raj's class begins to grow with students like Laxmi, a housewife new to the country, Puja, an unenthused high school student who's grandmother, Vina is forcing her to come to class, and Vincent, a young gay teen who wants to dance regardless of his father's objections.

Starring:
Lilette Dubey (Monsoon Wedding / Kal Ho Naa Ho / Vanity Fair)
Sachin Bhatt (The Ode / Bombay Dreams)
Pooja Kumar (Sita Sings the Blues)
Farah White (The Final)

AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Asian Festival of First Films, Best Screenplay Nominee

“3 out of 4 stars.” - Anil Sinanan, Timeout London

Comedy | HD | 113 minutes | 2009 | USA

Chopin: Desire for Love extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
In 1837, a single mother with two grown children, Georg Sand, falls for an unknown artist who has just arrived in Paris – Frederic Chopin. This family drama, intricately woven with the music of Chopin, shows us how devastating the power of love and envy of fame can be.

“Antczak is a master at the sweeping period romantic epic.”
- Kevin Thomas/Los Angeles Times

Winner: Best Drama & Best Cinematography, Worldfest Houston

Directed by Academy Award Nominee: Jerzy Antczak

2010 celebrates the 200th Anniversary of Chopin’s birth.

Bio/Drama | 35mm | 105 minutes | 2002 | Poland
English dubbed version available.

Claang The Game extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Accept the Challenge

In a distant time and place, power is decided by a cruel game in which two teams composed of warriors similar to gladiators fight in a vast arena. Using trickery and corruption, the ambitious Sahr gathers an immense share of power, ruling with tyranny and making his team nearly invincible. Tyr, a military leader, retreats to an island with his beloved Elanor but eventually chooses to take up the challenge of restoring justice. Sahr’s power, however, is reinforced by the possession of an ancient, magical symbol created by a now extinct culture: the Claang.

Winner: Award of Excellence, IndieFest 2009 (La Jolla, California)

Action-Adventure/Fantasy | HD | 104 minutes | 2009 | Italy (in Italian with English subtitles)

The Devil’s Gravestone extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
From the Blood of This City, God’s Shadow Will Be Born.

Jaq Molton was a beaming mother and devoted wife until the day she came home to find her son savagely murdered by her husband, Cale. As her despair turns to anguish and ultimately vengeance, Jaq plunges into a crusade to find her husband and impose a vicious retribution. Her relentless quest thrusts her into the depraved underbelly of Roach City, teeming with fiendish vampires and an unscrupulous society. Constantly hitting one dead end after another, Jaq appears to be fighting a lost cause, when she meets Dick, a Roach City detective, who offers her some unexpected information on Cale’s whereabouts. Through a bizarre and unraveling story, Jaq learns that her husband, a cruel and particularly feared vampire, is on a prophecy fulfilling mission that puts all the souls of humanity at risk.

Cast:
Elle LaMont (Strings)
Joe Nemmers (The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans / Late Bloomers)
Niko Red Star (Killer School Girls from Outer Space)
Grant James (Tombstone / UHF)

Horror/Thriller | HD | 92 minutes | USA | 2010

Gladiators of Hell extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
The duel they never expected has just begun.

In an ancient era, two great warriors are fighting in an arena. Both men have waited for this moment. Estranged brothers, they have quarreled over a woman for years -- a woman who loves them both but is now with neither. During the fight, something completely unexpected happens. In the labyrinth of tunnels under the arena, the monster guardian of Hell's Gate rises to announce the end of their world. Our two heroes are trapped in the labyrinth with other warriors, gladiators, slaves. Epic duels in the arena and throughout the tunnels are the elements of this "Alien" fantasy love story.

Written & Directed by Stefano Milla (Claang the Game)

Fantasy Adventure | HD | 90 minutes | 2010 | Italy

Currently in production. Release date: November, 2010.

The Hungry Ghosts extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
The Tibetans describe a type of hell in which souls with tiny mouths are afflicted with enormous, insatiable bellies. Enter Michael Imperioli’s New York, an urban landscape where inhabitants search futilely to satisfy their illusory physical wants and spiritual needs. These are “the hungry ghosts” we will travel with for 36 hours. Five New Yorkers - of different ages, races, backgrounds – with a hunger for sensual, emotional and spiritual fulfillment - will have their paths intersect and collide. Reflecting the zeitgeist of our times, the desperation of the West will smack up against the religious teachings of the East.

Cast:
Steve Schirripa (Sopranos / Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / The Irishman)
Aunjanue Ellis (Ray / Men of Honor / Notorious / The Taking of Pelham 123)
Nick Sandow (The Accidental Husband / Swimfan / Resurrecting the Champ)
Sharon Angela (Sopranos / Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai / Grand Theft Auto IV)
Paul Calderon (Pulp Fiction / One Life to Live / Bad Lieutenant)

Written & Directed by Michael Imperioli (Goodfellas / Shark Tale / Bad Boys)

“Gripping...an impressive debut film that offers an uncompromising look at the complexities of life and the redemptive qualities we need to get through it...Steve Schirripa gives a remarkable performance.”
Jason Guerrasio, Filmmaker Magazine

Drama | HD | 105 minutes | 2009 | USA

Logan extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Never give up on your dreams.

Two brothers, Tyler and Logan, are inseparable. Logan, 13, has a seemingly impossible idea to make a movie. After facing rejection from his peers at school and his careless parents, he turns to his 17-year-old brother Tyler. When Logan’s last hope lets him down, he makes a failed suicide attempt. Now Tyler will do everything he can to make his brother’s dream come true.

Starring:
Leo Howard (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra / Shorts / Leo Little's Big Show)
Booboo Stewart (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse)

Family Drama/Comedy | HD | 93 minutes | 2010 | USA

Mad Cow extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Mad Cow is a fast-paced, crazy comedy horror movie that dares to go where Naked Gun, Scary Movie and Shaun of the Dead feared to tread.

Mad Cow sets out to spoof the zombie/horror movie genre in a new and totally insane way, following the story of a Frankenstein-like experiment that goes horribly wrong, with hilarious results.

Cast:
Tanya van Graan (Starship Troopers 3: Marauder)
Greg Viljoen (Gandhi, My Father / Cape of Good Hope / Wild at Heart)

Comedy/Horror | HD | 90 minutes | 2010 | South Africa

My Guaranteed Student Loan extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Based on a true story, Allen is desperate to pay for his tuition at a prestigious acting program in New York City. Partying at a club, he and his friends make a seemingly harmless bet – to dress in drag for a Halloween contest. But this harmless bet spirals out of control and becomes a lucrative business – as Allen finds he’s very good at it.

Starring:
Celeste Holm (2 time Oscar Nominee & Oscar Winner)
Richard Pryor, Jr. (Stork)
Janet Carroll (Risky Business / Enough / Forces of Nature)
Katharine Luckinbill (Granddaughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz)

Family Comedy | HD | 98 minutes | 2010 | USA

Never Escape extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
To Survive The Future, You Must Escape Your Past

In a dark and ruined future in which a New World Order has taken control, a young man named Jim searches desperately for the only remaining safe haven -- The Underground. Jim meets two other rebels and, together, they attempt to find The Underground as they fight for survival at every turn.

“An Ultra Cool-Suspense-Action-World Gone To Hell Flick!”
Scene Magazine

Action/Thriller | HD | 74 minutes | USA | 2010

The Pit extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
It’s a hard way to make an easy living.

What does the price of your clothes, your gas, your coffee have to do with a room full of screaming, running, shoving, pushing, spitting personalities speaking in code?

Everything.

“The Pit” takes us to one of the most primitive, yet highly ritualized arenas of the financial world, the floor of The New York Board of Trade. Billions of dollars of raw goods are traded daily at the NYBOT, setting the price of commodities from cotton to orange juice throughout the world. Using their own money, traders make and lose fortunes every day in this microcosm of raw capitalism. In the beginning of 2007, however, computerized trading platforms were introduced on the floor of the exchange, threatening to make this historic marketplace and way of life obsolete. “The Pit” is the story about this transformation.

Festivals:
Cinequest Film Festival (San Jose, California)
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival (Hot Springs, Arkansas)

Executive Producers: Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman (Howl / The Celluloid Closet / The Times of Harvey Milk / Paragraph 175)

Documentary | DV | 58 minutes | USA | 2010

Sensored extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Words from your mouth are not lies if you believe them.

Children’s book author Wade Mixon is the kind of person everyone fears having as a neighbor. He is seemingly quiet, polite, clean and gentle. Behind closed doors, Wade is quite disturbed -- revealing dark secrets, twisted thoughts and criminal behavior.

“The great Robert Picardo gets inside the mind of a madman in Ryan Todd's unexpected, riveting mindbender that plays like a horror film but ends up being so much more. A tour-de-force for one of my favorite actors, who at last gets to carry a picture. Sarah Knowlton is likewise memorable. Timely, thoughtful and altogether engrossing. One of the year's finest indies.”
- Joe Dante (Director: The Howling / Gremlins / The Hole)

Starring: Robert Picardo (Star Trek: First Contact / Gremlins 2: The New Batch/ Innerspace / The Howling)

Horror | HD | 91 minutes | USA | 2009

A Single Woman extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
A Single Woman is the story of the first US Congresswoman and lifelong pacifist, Jeannette Rankin. She ran for Congress in 1916 and won. The subject of her first vote (against President WilsonÕs WWI war resolution) set the stage for her destiny.

In 1920, Jeannette was founding vice-president of the American Civil Liberties Union who, in 1933, tried to persuade President Roosevelt to revise immigration laws and allow Jewish refugees into the U.S.

In 1940, Jeannette was re-elected as Congresswoman from Montana on a peace platform and again voted against a world war, this time as the lone anti-war voice in the American Legislature. She was mobbed and vilified and spent the rest of her life traveling to India and studying the teachings and methods of Mohandas Gandhi and the effects of colonialism on peoples all over the world.

During the Vietnam era, she enjoyed a renaissance when the anti-war culture of the day celebrated her perseverance as a dedicated pacifist and human rights advocate. She died in 1973.

Cast/Narrator/Voices:
Martin Sheen (Apocalypse Now / The Departed / Catch Me If You Can)
Patricia Arquette (True Romance / Ed Wood / Stigmata)
Judd Nelson (The Breakfast Club / Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back / St. Elmo's Fire)
Margot Kidder (Superman / Superman II / The Amityville Horror)
Frances Fisher (Titanic / Unforgiven / Guiding Light)
Elizabeth Peña (The Incredibles / Jacob's Ladder / Rush Hour)
Peter Coyote (The Story of Bonnie and Clyde / E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial)
Chandra Wilson (Frankie and Alice / Philadelphia / Lone Star)
Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces / House of 1000 Corpses / Nashville)
Cindy Sheehan (Keeping the Peace / A Soldier's Peace)

“Few members of Congress have ever stood more alone while being true to a higher honor and loyalty.”
John F. Kennedy (January 1958)

“It has been a privilege to support your efforts and to have my efforts supported by so great a woman. You have brought honor to yourself, America and womanhood.”
Corretta Scott King (1967)

“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
Jeannette Rankin

Drama / HD / 95 minutes / USA / 2009

Tropics of Blood extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Based on a true story.

Set in the 1950’s, Minerva Mirabal and her sisters are raised in a privileged, well-to-do family. But the country is in turmoil under the brutal dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who has ruled the Dominican Republic with an iron fist since 1930. This is the story of how Minerva and her sisters dared to stand up against the dictator.

Cast:
Michelle Rodriguez (Avatar / Machete / The Fast and the Furious)
Juan Fernandez (The Collector / A Man Apart)
Cesar Evora (Llena de amor)

Action/Drama | 35mm & HD | 115 minutes | 2010 | Dominican Republic

In Spanish with English & French subtitles.

Velma extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
The "Captain", a sailor with a controversial past and an aggressive nature, lives alone in a remote hut on a lagoon nearby Venice. His only friendship is with the local community of fishermen. One day while roaming the beach, he finds a young girl mysteriously entangled in a net on the shore and nurses her back to health. Little does he know, the girl is about to change his life forever.

Festivals:
2010 World Fest Houston: Remi Award, Best Foreign Film
2010 Melbourne Film Festival
2010 Tiburon Int’l Film Festival (San Francisco, California)
2010 Trieste Film Festival (Italy), Audience Award

Drama | HD | 92 minutes | 2009 | Italy

In Italian with English subtitles. HDCam and 35mm prints available.

Blue Gold extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Global Warming is an issue of "how" we live, the water crisis is an issue of "if" we live.

On every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an exponential level as population and technology grows. The rampant over development of agriculture, housing and industry increase the demands for fresh water well beyond the finite supply, resulting in the desertification of the earth.

Corporate giants force developing countries to privatize their water supply for profit. Wall Street investors target desalination and mass bulk water export schemes. Corrupt governments use water for economic and political gain. Military control of water emerges and a new geopolitical map and power structure forms, setting the stage for world water wars.

"Sounds the same sweeping alarms as Inconvenient Truth, only about our dwindling water supplies." – Toronto Star

Narrated by Malcolm McDowell

Documentary | HD | 90 minutes | 2008 | USA

The Eyes of Van Gogh extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
After the disastrous months spent with Gauguin in the yellow house in Arles, Vincent van Gogh, in desperate search of a cure from attacks that increasingly plague him, voluntarily enters an insane asylum. The Eyes of Van Gogh is a story, never told before, of the twelve nightmarish months van Gogh spent in the insane asylum at St. Remy. Through hallucinations, terrifying dreams and wrenching memories, the film tells a tale of magnificent battles: to create – to connect - to love - to change the world. It visualizes the drive and complexity, the heroism and agony of a great artist and a great man. The film explores the theme of an artistic mind in torment, a creative soul in despair, an exquisitely sensitive being ravaged and destroyed by cruelty, wracked by indifference and loneliness, yet desperately seeking to live, to hope, to finish his work, to find a path other than those leading to madness or death.

Festivals:
Winner: Remi Award, Worldfest Houston International Film Festival
Santa Fe Film Festival

111 minutes, ©2005, USA
All Rights Available

Live Animals extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
A ruthless entrepreneur targets young, white victims for his macabre business. Using an isolated horse barn, he sells his captives to the highest bidder. Five college friends on a vacation at a lake house are brutally kidnapped and find themselves prisoners, awaiting the auction block. Rather than succumb to a slave's existence, two of the remaining victims chance death for freedom only to discover this twisted underworld reaches further than they imagine.

World Premiere at the Hollywood Film Festival.

Winner: Best Picture, Audience Choice Award -- Memphis International Film Festival (April 2009)

Most Rights Available except United States.

DV | Horror | 85 minutes | 2008 | USA

Moonlight Sonata extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
To Forget? Maybe. To Forgive? Never.

Can we escape the consequences of our moral choices? Are our sins ever forgotten or live on in our repressed memories? An affluent San Francisco family attempts to deal with their past secrets in their own private way. As each person tries to move forward in life, they unknowingly race towards chaos and destruction.

2009 Festivals:
Winner: Honolulu International Film Festival

Selections:
Eugene International Film Festival
Antalya International Film Festival
Varna International Film Festival
California Independent Film Festival
Big Island Film Festival
Staten Island Film Festival
Great Lakes Independent Film Festival

Psychological Thriller | HD | 102 minutes | USA | 2009

The Sculptor extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Lay Your Demons To Rest

A brilliant young sculptor goes to extreme lengths to find success, but soon discovers he will have to pay a high price. When he has everything he’s ever wanted, he is haunted by the terrible deeds that brought him fame.

Paul retreats to a forest hideaway to continue his work, with his beautiful wife Renee. But Paul is pursued by his former lover, Nat, who insinuates herself into Paul’s life, befriending Renee, and threatening to reveal all unless Paul once again commits to the dark and secret world they once shared.

“Ambitious and accomplished, the film is an edgy exploration of the occult within a love story. Intelligent direction and top performances.”
Andrew L. Urban, Urbancinefile

“A bold and unusual debut.”
Nicholas Royle, The London Magazine

Exotic Thriller | HD | 103 minutes | Australia | 2009

Spike extended description (play trailer) 

Synopsis:
Spike is the monstrously mutated suitor who builds a forest lair in which he dwells for several years while awaiting the arrival of his “beauty” - a girl with whom he shares a history, and whom he has idolized his entire life.
The girl and a group of friends find themselves, by no coincidence, stranded in Spike’s forest. The Beast kidnaps his Beauty. Spike also injures her boyfriend and holds him hostage. Thus begins the girl’s quest to recover her ill-fated lover from Spike -- whether through reason, charm, coercion, or violence -- while her friends try to recover her.
Spike maneuvers through the dark tensions of a monster’s love and the depths to which a beauty may sink to evade it, arguably becoming monstrous herself. In the end, we must uncomfortably agree that, as Spike himself says, “There is always some madness in love.” Spike gives that madness life.

"Impressive, uniquely engaging gothic fairytale with unexpected turns." - Sean Decker, FANGORIA

"An assured and stylish mix of David Lynch and the brothers Grimm." - Callum Waddell, DREAMWATCH/TOTAL SCI-FI

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Thriller/Horror | Super 16mm | 80 minutes | 2008 | USA
Available on Digital Beta and HDCam.