Shana may refer to:
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The coming-of-age story about a Canadian First Nations girl who triumphs over obstacles in her young life. Her new teacher discovers her extraordinary gifts as a violinist. When Shana goes on a spiritual journey, she befriends a wild wolf who guides her and she reconnects with her ancestors, including her mother. Finally, she is able to make peace with her mother's death and, absorbed by nature and the spiritual world, Shana finds a unique way of musical expression, which will allow her to have a career as a violinist. Filmed with the People of the Creeks, the Lower Nicola Indian Band near Merritt, BC. The entire cast is local and first time film performers. The Swiss director Nino Jacusso who spent seven months with them calls them 'real actors' as they are the real people. A moving, magical, and yet authentic inter-cultural motion picture.
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Leo and Paige are a couple who just got married. After an accident, Paige is left unconscious, and when she awakes she doesn't remember Leo. Her parents, whom she hasn't seen since she and Leo got together, come and visit her. She can't believe that she hasn't seen them for such a long time. Leo wants to bring her home with him but her parents want her to go with them. She goes with Leo but when she doesn't recognize anything, she goes to her parents. And she wonders why did she cut off contact with her family. She also runs into her ex and wonders why they broke up. Leo tries to win her back by courting her again.
Keywords: art-gallery, art-studio, bare-chested-male, based-on-true-story, car-accident, chicago-illinois, collision, divorce, father-daughter-relationship, girl-in-bra-and-panties
Paige: I vow to help you love life, to always hold you with tenderness and to have the patience that love demands, to speak when words are needed and to share the silence when they are not, to agree to disagree on red velvet cake, and to live within the warmth of your heart and always call it home.::Leo: I vow to fiercely love you in all your forms, now and forever. I promise to never forget that this is a once in a lifetime love. And to always know in the deepest part of my soul that no matter what challenges might carry us apart, we will always find our way back to each other.
Leo: Life's all about moments, of impact and how they changes our lives forever. But what if one day you could no longer remember any of them?
Leo: How do you look at the woman you love, and tell yourself that its time to walk away?
Leo: Oh my god.::Paige: What?::Leo: First date and you're already inviting yourself to stay the night?
Paige: I hope that one day I can love you the way you love me.::Leo: You figured it out once. You'll do it again.
Leo: I need to make my wife fall in love with me again.
Paige: Who's the President?::Leo: Of the country?::Paige: Yeah.::Leo: Obama.::Paige: The senator?::Leo: Yeah. You voted for him, actually.
Paige: Can you give me one of those?::Restaurant Cashier: Don't you want your usual?::Paige: I have a usual? Yeah, I'll have the usual.
Paige: Are you trying to make me diabetic or just fat?
Leo: The moment of impact. The moment of impact proves potential for change. Has ripples effects far beyond what we can predict. Sending some particles crashing together. Making them closer than before. While sending others spinning off into great ventures. Landing them where you've never thought you've found them. That's the thing about moments like these. You can't, no matter how hard you try, controlling how it's gonna affect you. You just gotta let the colliding part goes where they may. And wait. For the next collision.
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In a failing comprehensive school in North London, three individuals lives are about to collide. Excluded charts the intersecting stories of Amanda, an ambitious headmistress, Ian, an idealistic new maths teacher, and Mark, a troubled and disruptive pupil. Against the odds, Ian makes a connection with Mark, but will he put his career on the line to save him? A witty, emotionally powerful and searingly real expose of the realities and struggles that inner-city schools face today.
Keywords: high-school, improvisation, mathematics
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SOLACE is an intense and emotional story about a young girl who harbors a dark family secret. After she is molested by her uncle, eleven year old Eva is forced to keep quiet by the one person she thought would protect her...her mother. As the years pass, the family relationship between the two quickly deteriorates and Eva eventually leaves home never to return. Seventeen years later, Eva, now a successful businesswoman, returns home to make funeral arrangements for her deceased mother. Forgotten memories suddenly begin to haunt Eva as she quickly realizes in order for her to move on with her future, she must confront her past...her uncle. Solace examines the damaging long term effects of child molestation through the eyes of a woman who lost her innocence at a young age and has always yearned for a family to love.
Keywords: anger, child-abuse, child-molestation, family-relationships, love, molestation, sexual-abuse, uncle-niece-relationship, violence
"Some Secrets Are Not Meant To Be Told"
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Nick's made poor choices professionally and personally. A man feared and envied by many, he's lived a life seduced by crime, money, beautiful women, and burlesque. Now he wants out and he's got 24 hours to find an exit. He's helped by the love of his life, ex-burlesque dancer, Regan Price and by his brother Tony, owner of The Uptown Bar.
Keywords: adultery, billiards, bisexual, bondage, burlesque, cabaret, double-date, drinking, erotica, fellatio
He's got 24 hours to make the last deal of his life.
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A policeman, unjustly sentenced and sent to a maximum security prison, discovers terrorists have planted a nuclear bomb in the prison. The terrorists hope to trick the U.S. into a retaliatory strike against Arab nations, innocently implicated. The policeman, along with the other prisoners, must defuse the bomb and save Los Angeles, and avert World War III.
Keywords: exploitation, female-nudity, independent-film, prison
They are society's most notorious criminals. They are our only hope.
Hilly Blue: I prefer priests. They're *real* hypocrites.
Hilly Blue: Women are despicable... especially mothers!
Hilly Blue: Everybody wants to go to Heaven; nobody wants to die.
Solo: I know there are only two ways to handle a woman, and both of them are wrong!
Wanda: Thank God love is blind, otherwise it'd see too much.
Wanda: Between the two of you there's almost a whole person.
Wanda: You know the main reason I opened up an early morning joint. Because you can't pick a better time of day to watch the sun rise.
[VERSE 1]
This is MC Jaz and I'm gonna
Talk about somebody, know why? Cause I wanna
The truth, the whole truth, nothin but scout's honor
A blast from the past, this girl named Shana
Skin so smooth, didn't need no lotion
That's irrelevant, yo, bust the motion
It was about 4 years ago
10 below, 11 inches of snow
As I stood on the corner to cross the street
I saw a piece of pure perfection lookin good enough to eat
I took a deep breath, said, "Hey you, stop"
She turned around and shouted, "Step off, baby pop"
I said, "What's up, what's your beef, missy?"
Yo, don't be stuck up, don't be so pissy"
Her upper lip dropped, Shana stopped
She said, "There ain't no need to be blowin your top"
A cute little honey in a bundle of fur
She could say the word, and I would be cursed
"You're definitely dear, devastatingly darlin
Please pass the digits, tomorrow I'll be callin"
She gave em up as I clocked her shameless
I said, "What's your name?", she said "My name is..."
[VERSE 2]
I called her daily and I rang the line
Two weeks later Shana was mine
Wednesday's her house, Thursday's Laces
Friday Red Parrot were our favorite places
I was her bo and she was my biddy
She called me handsome, I called her pretty
But somethin happened, boy, was it a pity
My girl Shana got high-seddidy
Demandin that I buy her fur coats and jewels
I was livin in a project, she musta been fooled
Talkin bout nugget goes good on my wrist
Askin me for diamonds that were big as my fist
Man, just to feed her my pockets been bleedin
Like a drunk race driver that girl was speedin
I was needin to get out of that, I couldn't stay with
A money hound, so I had to do away with
[VERSE 3]
We were apart for two weeks and I was missin her
All the huggin and the lovin and the kissin her
Yo, I wanted to call her, but I needed to talk face to face
So I stepped over to her place
Knock-knock, "Hey baby, it's yours truly
Come on and talk to me, and don't be unruly"
I said, "What's the matter, girl, can't you speak?
You ain't seen The Jaz in about 2 weeks
You got somethin to say to me, don't you?
I'm so confused, so won't you
Tell me what's goin on
Say the word and I'll be gone"
She said, "Bye, I don't want a thing to do with you
Let the door knob hit you where the good lord split you"
I was so upset, I coulda cursed her mother
But I cooled, cause I knew that I'd recover
Stepped through the door, cold bam-slam
She said, "Go on, go on, beat it, scram"
Dismissed and dissed so skidaddled I did
And my only consolation was I got rid of
[VERSE 4]
Time passed, and I got a new honey
A sweet treat that ain't hungry for my money
Thank God when she was taken, glad that I took her
She's kind by design and a real good looker
Warm and charming, with style and grace
Not to mention that she has good taste
Clocked a move, cause there's move to clock
Chillin at the Parrot, parked my car in the lot
On the guest list line lookin over my shoulder
Silky hair, soft fur, and didn't look a day older
I tried to avoid her, pushed and shoved to get past
Then Shana shouted out, "Is that you, Jaz?
With that big three foot truck diesel rope
And that soft frehs leather lookin dumber than dope?"
She said, "I must be goin psycho, as far as you and I go
The only car you drove was made by Tyco
Driftin on the thought, I'm wonderin whether
We can do right, and eh, get together
No question, you're willin of course
Come on, my place or yours?"
I said, "I'm just thinkin bout the times when you drove me crazy
The gall, the audacity, you amaze me
Took me for worse, that's totally weak
Money ain't everything, you crabby old freak
You tried to do me like toilet paper, that's okay
Blow your nose and wipe and cold flush me away
But eh, I saw the light, and I saw it in time
Before you tried to beat me for my last thin dime"
I played her out, she had nothin to say
Shrugged her shoulders and switched away
I keep my mind in track, though I ain't no runner