Burdens (2013)

Actors: Marcus A. Taylor (actor), Karen Overstreet (actress), Rose Warner (producer), Cher Davis (actress), Kristy Fontelera (actress), Ellin Iselin (actress), Joanna C. Horton (actor), Joanna C. Horton (producer), Joanna C. Horton (writer), Matthew Simons (writer), Matthew Simons (director), Daniel Donaldson (actor), Barbara Van Fleet (actress), Matthew Simons (editor), Angela Chamberlain (actor),

Plot: In a world where humans suffer as they literally carry their burdens with them in society, there is Hope. Time slows in the social world when people carry their debt, greed, vanity, regret and loneliness. Used to the misery and unhappiness, few people including Conformity man can recognize life without it. When Hope guides him to a place where people can be themselves and leave their burdens at the door, he faces the choice to allow himself freedom from his own bonds.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Upwardly Mobile (2013)

Actors: Terry Wookey (editor), Terry Wookey (producer), Deanna Dewey (director), Aaryk Noctivagus (composer), Ewen Glass (writer), Alia Reid (actress), Wendy Reid (actress), Michael Putt (actor), Jeremy Town (actor), Emily Baron (actor), Richard Womersley (actor), Rebecca Womersley (actor), Auriel Cochrane (actor), Blue Faraday (actor), Christine Hallett (actor),

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Short,

Mark Twain's Bad Boy Without Grief (2013)

Actors: Mark Twain (writer), Gary Lobstein (miscellaneous crew), Gary Lobstein (actor), Adam Zanzie (producer), Adam Zanzie (editor), Adam Zanzie (writer), Adam Zanzie (director), Joe Hanrahan (actor), Julie Wilhelm (miscellaneous crew), Paul Cereghino (actor), Julie Wilhelm (actress), Josey Rodriguez (actor), Ava Zanzie (miscellaneous crew), Ava Zanzie (actor), Sandra Zanzie (actress),

Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,

Christian Blake (2008)

Actors: Eoin Macken (writer), Brian Fortune (actor), Eoin Macken (editor), Eoin Macken (actor), Eoin Macken (director), Emmett Scanlan (actor), Jose Mantero (actor), Killian Scott (actor), Una Healy (composer), Yare Michael Jegbefume (actor), Rian Sheehy Kelly (actor), Kevin Whyms (composer), Amber Jean Rowan (actress), Donal Patterson (actor), Maura Duffy (actor),

Plot: Christian Blake is the story of a solitary young man growing up with his closest friend Steve. Unable to handle Steve's flowering relationship with Lucy, Christian becomes obsessed, with tragic consequences. Years later, in a barely functioning mental asylum run by the sadistic Dr Rush and his tormented accomplice Floyd, the journalist Sandra White is allowed a meeting with Christian under the guise of attempting to understand the actions of his past. Her motives are otherwise however and her efforts at personal retribution simply result in awakening the anger dormant inside of him. The results are violent and catastrophic for all involved.

Genres: Thriller,
Taglines: How well do you know your best friend?

Expiration Date (2006)

Actors: Dee Wallace (actress), David Keith (actor), Benjamin Ratner (actor), Eric Johnson (actor), Kathleen McInnis (miscellaneous crew), Ronald Leamon (costume designer), Rick Stevenson (director), Rick Stevenson (actor), Rick Stevenson (writer), BC Smith (composer), Richard Sanders (actor), Jill Bennett (actress), Heather Murphy (miscellaneous crew), Ned Romero (actor), Cynthia Geary (actress),

Plot: Charlie Silvercould III carries around a family curse passed down from his grandfather; death by a milk truck on his 25th birthday. With eight days left, Charlie accepts his fate and starts taking care of his unfinished business, like watering his plants and returning his library books and so on. But while he's out casket hunting, he meets a girl who just won't let him die in peace.

Keywords: accidental-death, american-indian, birthday, bookend-scenes, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, bus-stop, casket, cemetery, coffin, curse
Genres: Comedy, Romance,

Quotes:

Alicia: I am a human being! I like myself and I like my thighs!

Old Native Man: [narrator] And that's how it was for Charlie Silvercloud. A young man who had spent most of his life standing still, waiting for the earth to swallow him. But a man's character is often defined by how he lives his final moments. And in his final moments, Charlie made a decision. If he was gonna die - he was gonna die dancing.

Charlie: Bessie?::Bessie: Charlie, what are you doing?::Charlie: ...Dancing?

Charlie: [on the phone with his mother, who is crying hysterically] Mom? Can you hear me? Say something Mom. Mom, it's okay, I'm here. With Bessy, we're in the middle of a field. We're all alone.::Lucille: Are you naked? [sobs]::Charlie: Happy birthday, Mom.::Lucille: Happy birthday, my son.

Old Native Man: When Creator created the Earth, he sent it spinning one thousand miles an hour. Ever wonder why? Because if he didn't, we'd all fall off. It's good to keep dancing...

Old Native Man: You'll dance for me again, won't ya?::Native Teen: [laughs] No.

Piso porta (2000)

Actors: Giorgos Kyriakidis (actor), Takis Yannopoulos (editor), Argyris Vavouris (miscellaneous crew), Jacques Bidou (producer), Antonis Kafetzopoulos (actor), Menelaos Daflos (actor), Marios Strofalis (composer), Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (writer), Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (director), Vasilis Kamitsis (actor), Ieroklis Michaelidis (actor), Hristos Pilatakis (miscellaneous crew), Fenia Cossovitsa (producer), Katerina Tsavalou (actress), Hector Kaloudis (actor),

Genres: Drama,

The Concrete Garden (1994)

Actors: Colin Salmon (actor), Trevor Byfield (actor), Alrick Riley (director), Anthony Warren (actor), Pauline Peart (actress), David Ince (actress), Angela Wynter (actress), Louise Decoteau (producer), Conrad Lindsay (actor), Delroy Murray (actor), Esther Armah (actress), Delroy Murray (composer), Krystel Downie (actress), Danielle Odle-Wint (actress), Ryan Romain (actor),

Genres: Short,

Ab nach Tibet! (1994)

Actors: Herbert Achternbusch (writer), Herbert Achternbusch (actor), Herbert Achternbusch (director), Micki Joanni (editor), Dagmar Sachse (actress), Christian Lerch (actor), Anna Schudt (actress), Annamirl Bierbichler (actress), Barbara de Koy (actress), Dorothee Hartinger (actress), Ann Poppel (costume designer), Tshamano Sebe (actor), Bettina Mittendorfer (actress), Nicole Ernst (actress), Franz Baumgartner (actor),

Genres: ,

Ab nach Tibet! (1994)

Actors: Herbert Achternbusch (writer), Herbert Achternbusch (actor), Herbert Achternbusch (director), Micki Joanni (editor), Dagmar Sachse (actress), Christian Lerch (actor), Anna Schudt (actress), Annamirl Bierbichler (actress), Barbara de Koy (actress), Dorothee Hartinger (actress), Ann Poppel (costume designer), Tshamano Sebe (actor), Bettina Mittendorfer (actress), Nicole Ernst (actress), Franz Baumgartner (actor),

Genres: ,

P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang. (1982)

Actors: Alison Steadman (actress), David Puttnam (producer), Robert Urquhart (actor), Michael Apted (director), Maureen Lipman (actress), Pauline Hume (miscellaneous crew), John Shirley (editor), Cassian Harrison (actor), Jack Rosenthal (writer), Richenda Carey (actress), Sue Yelland (costume designer), Arthur Whybrow (actor), Garry Cooper (actor), Peter Elford (miscellaneous crew), Dave Atkins (actor),

Plot: The plot of one of the early Channel Four films is sweet and simple. Boy likes girl at school, but is too embarrassed to confront her. Alan relates everything to a running cricket commentary (provided superbly by John Arlott) right up to the will he, won't he finale, when he has to kiss Ann in a school play.

Keywords: 1940s, army-deserter, arrest, beating, beating-with-a-cane, cane, caning, child's-point-of-view, child-protagonist, class-photograph
Genres: Comedy,

Quotes:

[in bed, praying as he wakes up from an erotic dream about Ann]::Alan: Please God. Let it be today. Somehow, let it come true today. I know Thursdays are difficult for you, what with the girls having double Domestic Science while we're in double PT. But it's just somehow... I don't think I can last out another day. And in return I promise, I hereby solemnly promise that I won't even *think* about... the other things. Well, *try* not to think about the other things. I didn't all day yesterday, or last night when I got into bed. And I'm not now, honest to God, God.::[he takes his hands out from under the bedclothes to prove that he's not been masturbating]::Alan: Look, no hands. Please God. Today or tomorrow - or early next week at the latest, weather permitting. Just *one* kiss. One'll do. Amen. And I'll never ask for anything again. Promise.

Alan: Bums are nothing really - everyone's got a bum. Always have had - they're nothing to be ashamed of. Dicks aren't either - everyone's got a dick. It's only the human torso. Tits included - I mean they're just for feeding babies with, deep down, not for bouncing about. The same goes for getting a feel. Kissing's different. A kiss is...::Tommy: Girls like it as well, you know.::Alan: Like what?::Tommy: What boys like... and some of them bloody love it.::Alan: I'm not talking about just French girls.::Tommy: [knowingly] Aye, I'm not either.

[as he is walking to school, Alan flamboyantly bowls an imaginary cricket ball, and pulls a muscle. As he hops around in agony he sees two workmen watching him]::Alan: Aaaargh! It's cramp! Bloody hell-fire and scrotums.::Road Worker: Millions of pounds on education.::Road Worker: It'll be with him living under the shadow of the Bomb, I expect.

[Alan has finally kissed Ann]::John Arlott - Cricket Commentator: And Duckworth has done it. England have won the most dramatic victory in the history of cricket. The entire crowd - and I'll wager the entire nation - rises to its feet in homage to Quack-Quack Duckworth who went to the wicket a boy... and came back a man.

[the boys are playing an impromptu game of cricket on waste ground next to the canal. Alan hits the ball for six... into the canal]::Geoffrey: Berk!::Boy: You stupid bugger.::Geoffrey: It's in the bloody canal, you berk. If it sinks, you're out.::Abbo: [laconically] We'll have to move that canal!

[Ann and Geoffrey are saying their farewells as they are about to go home in different directions]::Geoffrey: [romantically] Mañana.::Ann: [romantically] Mañana.::Geoffrey, Ann: [together] Mañana's not soon enough for me.::[Alan looks nauseated at this display of affection]

[Abbo and Shaz are helping Alan learn his lines. They come to the line where Alan's character kisses Ann's character]::Alan: [quoting line from play] "I have seen the light of truth in what's happened and the light of love in your fiancée's eyes - love for me."::Abbo: Then you stride over to her, take her in your arms and... bleeeeugh!::[Abbo pretends to vomit]::Shaz: Puke and vomitudinosty!::Abbo: Spewosity upthrow!::Alan: [echoing Ann's comment to him earlier] That's stupid, that. Long drivel words that don't mean anything.::[Alan walks off in disgust]::Shaz: He's getting more like my Auntie Phyllis every day.::Abbo: It's the strain of learning his lines.::Shaz: Either that or he's been overdoing it.::[Abbo looks horrified]::Abbo: Overdoing it can't make you go like you Auntie Phyllis, can it?

Alan: When I walk past your desk, I breathe in on purpose to smell your skin. It's the most beautiful smell there is.::Ann: It's only Yardley's.