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- The perfect 'formula' film. Catchy title, hot chick, fast car, huge dilemma, with a 'twist' at the end. The perfect example of how to 'get the butts in the seats." And what else really matters anyway?
- "Pennies" is the story of Charlotte Brown (Amy Adams), a waitress and young single mother who will do anything for her daughter Jenny, and when push comes to shove,she does. With a menacing figure on the other end of the phone and a time limit of two hours, she must raise enough money to ensure that she sees the smiling face of her child again. Charlotte's customers are her only hope. The clock is ticking as we see the desperate young mother dealing with one eccentric customer after the next, displaying her charming vulnerability and inspiring strength through all the chaos. With her feet firmly planted on the ground, Charlotte maintains her focus and attempts to beat the clock and save the day.
- Late one evening a woman enters a near-deserted underground carpark and discovers a strange man attempting to break into her beloved black Mini. When a broken pay phone foils her bid to call for help she decides to fight back. Utilizing various grocer items she launches an attack on the would-be thief. After a bitter struggle she eventually prevails, only to discover her actions may have been a little hasty.
- When a Young boy loses his mother to cancer, his friend helps him to understand what has really happened
- In an attempt to reawakening her forgotten sexuality, a woman embarks on an hilarious journey into the world of sexual taboos.
- What if you had to give an account of your life when you die? John Hansen is about to find out. On his way to the store to pick up milk for the baby, he encounters a homeless man and chooses to ignore him. He looks up just in time to see a car barreling down on him. A fatal collision occurs.
- A young urban missionary struggles with his own demons when he tries to convert a local prostitute.
- After Gene runs a stop sign in his golf cart, he is sent to Golf Cart Driving School. Gene is welcomed to the class by instructor Bruce Altshuler, who exudes supreme authority over his students. Gene's attention is quickly turned to Carol, a foxy fellow student. He learns that if Carol fails the course one more time, Bruce will revoke her Golf Cart License and mount her picture on "The Wall of Failure." Gene offers to help Carol, but discovers she has a plan to pass that won't require any studying. He must choose whether to go through with Carol's scheme or risk losing her forever.
- Will is shocked when he's told that his colleague Emma has died while on holiday. He's even more surprised when he sees her walking past the window of the café in which he's sitting the next day.
- In the future, a shared addiction to televisual technology haunts the lives of new mother Miranda, and twenty-five years later, her grown daughter, Jane. A government agent, The Collector, tries to end it, one way or the other.
- Italian Lessons is the touching, humorous story of Caterina, a beautiful young widow who teaches Italian to Peter, a high school student who uses the "language of love" simply to score with girls. Peter's passion for life re-ignites feelings Caterina has not experienced since her husband's death and soon she and the boy are drawn into a strange and special relationship. When a suitor from Italy arrives to propose marriage to Caterina, it becomes apparent that only Peter can release his teacher's heart and make her free to love again.
- On a hot August day, three truck stop prostitutes debate their futures. Based on Kathryn O'Sullivan's award winning play.
- Four slightly over-the-hill men finish a game on their neighborhood court and a debate develops about who loves the game the most. It becomes a meditation on love, dedication and basketball.
- Veritales is a trilogy of linked short films, all quirky, playful, nearly silent modern adaptations of three classic fairy tales: Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and Red Riding Hood. The script was inspired by the earliest versions of all three stories. Set in the forest of dreams, the film is comic, sexy, scary, romantic and endearing. Veritales mixes influences from classic horror films, silent films, the Keystone Cops and more, adding contemporary twists to the tales' original endings.
- Rainbow's End is the story of three small time crooks who capture a Leprechaun and try to shake him down for his pot of gold.
- A century ago, a foreigner travels to a Nebraska hotel, his mind filled with the romantic violence of Western dime novels. He soon finds his expectations fulfilled, confronting a disturbing fate whose mysterious cause ultimately seems to elude us. Adapted from the Stephen Crane story.
- In the sterile comfort of a psychiatric ward, Joe (David Aaron Baker) finds solace for his tortured soul in dull routine watching TV and polishing and re-polishing his meticulous black boots. But even the most tightly controlled refuge is not unbreachable, as Joe soon learns when his solitude is shattered by the arrival of an interloper (Jarlath Conroy).
- An elderly couple has fished the Lowcountry waters for decades. When they are separated by death, the story turns on the strange and lingering effect of the old woman's passion for fishing, a love so powerful that it ultimately leads a group of thrill-seeking losers to a peculiar redemption.
- The childlike Newman sets an ingenious trap for his domineering brother Ringo, in an attempt to get "quits" following 15 years of fraternal oppression.
- Nino Telesta, son of an infamous New York mob boss, has a dirty little secret he has been hiding from his family, friends and fiance for his entire life - he is a professional mime.
- Meet Astrid. Proof that anyone can be on TV. Anyone.
- A high school girl prepares for her prom, as a garbage man discovers a baby in the trash by her home.
- A black comedy about a lapsed catholic who picks the wrong priest for Confession.
- A ludicrous bank heist that turns the cops and robbers genre upside down. This comedic short explores the extent to which we've become desensitized to guns & violence in media.
- Meat puppets, is how Eric describes his employees in an abusive tirade. He bullies his way through life never contemplating the consequences of his actions on others. That all changes when one employee decides to take matters into their own hands. In a disturbing twist, Eric is tied spread eagle to his bed and forced to smoke crack cocaine over the course of a weekend. A series of flashbacks show us his true nature as the list of suspects grow with every insult and abuse. When all is said and done, revenge isn't as sweet as it sounds.
- On his 12th birthday Chris receives a mysterious package, postmarked the day of his birth, from a deceased grandfather he never knew. Inside he finds that he has inherited the family pocket watch; and the secret it holds. While celebrating the mythic proportions taken on by childhood events, Pocket Watch is ultimately a coming of age film. In it a boy is forced to contend with his responsibility to a shadowed family history that he has suddenly unearthed.
- A young boy on the verge of leaving his childhood fantasies behind forever, has a final conversation with his teddy bear Charlie.
- A young man discovers a DVD on a New York street corner and takes it home to watch it. His curiosity has dark consequences.
- The back office bathroom can be a dangerous place, especially if you're unfortunate enough to share the lavatory with the infamous Bill (a.k.a. the Manhattan Project). When Jim becomes trapped in a stall privy to co-worker Bill's explosive gastrointestinal disturbances (on a par with earthquakes, volcanoes, and nuclear winters), he loses a bit of his innocence. Bill's aromatic flatulence is only the beginning, a precursor to the monumental bowel movements to come. To make the already disgusting situation even worse, Bill provides a narrative to accompany the rumbling roars of his innards. Bill's commentary covers what he's eaten as well as sporadic exclamations of relief. Deciding to go on the offensive, Jim and his friend Ed discuss methods of deterring Bill's future eruptions. They draw up a list of rules for bathroom etiquette and hang several copies in the lavatory. Will Bill heed their advice, or use it when he runs out of toilet paper?
- Marco, a shy teenager, rebels against following in his father's footsteps. In doing so, he unleashes a chain of repressed secrets in his family.
- A blend of 60's Technicolor European romp and post-modern cynicism.
- It is the white nights of the northern Russian summer, a time of neither night nor day. A woman searches the streets of St. Petersburg for her missing daughter while coping with the indifference and ineptitude of a destitute bureaucracy. Another child appears, providing her with a fleeting moment of emotional respite. A second tragedy emboldens the woman to make a critical choice.
- Roger is going to kill a man. His good friend Danny talks him out of doing it. But Roger has a plan, and Danny doesn't like his role.
- How to have children without having sex.
- A dysfunctional hit man attempts to emulate his hero.
- When a patriarch suffers a stroke, the family comes together and discovers their love for each other is greater than the differences that time, distance and religion have imposed.
- An evil landlady discovers the twisted dark truth behind a mysterious voice coming from Roy's apartment.
- A taxi appears and Alistair assumes that his disaster of an evening is over; only to discover it is just beginning.
- A haunting tale of loss and forgiveness as a son tries to reconnect with his father who gives up drinking after a mysterious accident.