Six (2013)

Actors: Yael Melamede (producer), Frank Jerky (editor), Frank Jerky (director), Frank Jerky (writer), Giovanni Pompetti (editor), Ella Nuortila (producer), Kristiina Salaka (miscellaneous crew), Muhammad Zaidy (producer), Maciej Swieboda (actor), Tommaso Vaccarella (producer), Sebastian Marocola (actor), Kara Bragg (actress), Eric Bassant (actor), Sandra C. Fleming (actress), Colin Matthew (actor),

Plot: SIX is a short film about a child who finds a hidden gun while playing alone on a rooftop. It is a story about a child's imagination versus reality; a child's innocence versus the power of guns and a child's vulnerability versus the negligence of adults.

Keywords: gun, gun-control
Genres: Drama, Short, Thriller,

Candle to Water (2012)

Actors: Chris Cowlin (actor), Andrew Tiernan (actor), Andrew Tiernan (actor), Jeremy Clyde (actor), Patrick Ryecart (actor), Christopher Hutchins (miscellaneous crew), Jake Seal (producer), Lola Dauda (miscellaneous crew), Clemency Burton-Hill (actress), Nigel Galt (editor), Michael Cronin (actor), Alastair Mackenzie (actor), Jack Ellis (actor), Rachel James (composer), Elizabeth Healey (actress),

Plot: To present five different contemporary stories involving different characters as one feature film. What these stories have in common is their expression of the way relational dysfunction prompts people to enact physical and/or emotional violence against themselves, each other or society. This common theme may be represented by a physical object or act that is not necessarily relevant to the plot, but which serves as a visual metaphor for the challenges facing different characters in different situations, who are confronted by the same problems.

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: Violence has many faces

Sandbox Lullaby (2011)

Actors: John Henry Binder (producer), John Henry Binder (actor), Jackson Rayfield (editor), Jackson Rayfield (actor), Jackson Rayfield (producer), Jackson Rayfield (writer), Jackson Rayfield (writer), Shawn London (actor), Jason Leary (actor), Joey Indrieri (editor), Joey Indrieri (director), Matt Joseph (actor), Sophie Binder (actor), Ivan B. Bartha (actor),

Plot: Rove is a father who has lost everything important to him. He now resides on Venice boardwalk as one of the many homeless walking the streets. A man plagued with guilt and unable to accept his current place in things, this story opens on another seemingly general day on the aftermath of this man. He has an encounter with a wannabe thug that carries a dangerous identity crisis. When all Rove wants is try to preserve the one thing he has left in the only place that will let him be to himself, Venice.

Genres: Drama, Short,

Last Performance (2006)

Actors: Edwin Brienen (producer), Edwin Brienen (director), Edwin Brienen (writer), Eva Dorrepaal (actress), René Ifrah (actor), Tomas Spencer (actor), Vincent Bagnall (actor), Esther Eva Verkaaik (actress), Cornell Adams (actor), Stéphane M. Grueso (editor), Marin Caktas (actor), Marc Baumgarten (actor), Carsten Heinze (actor), Uwe Schmieder (actor), Karen Joy Cifarelli (actress),

Plot: Last Performance, the fifth feature film from award-winning European director Edwin Brienen, is set in the tumultuous New York theater world. Julia, a European actress who relocated to New York to try and make the big time, stars in an avant-garde theatre play, directed by the eccentric Magda. Inspired by obsessive philosophers such as Nietzsche, Schopenhauer and LaVey - "Forget the weak, the virtuous ones and the compassionate ones" - Magda explores the dark side of life. Julia's co-star, herein, is Cooper who has an abusive relationship with the sexually frustrated Tom. Tom, unable to accept his homosexuality, in turn exploits Julia for his own sexual adventures. Cooper, enraged by jealousy, sets out for revenge and his actions, herein, trigger an inexorable wave of disintegration and misery. Soon, fact and fiction become indistinguishable as Julia too becomes the author of her own demise.

Keywords: abusive-relationship
Genres: Drama,

Joe Lies (2006)

Actors: Alison Haislip (actress), John Ruby (actor), Gabrielle Christian (actress), Kim Argetsinger (actress), Nick Simotas (editor), Nick Simotas (actor), Nick Simotas (director), David Hoffman (actor), Zachary Chitwood (actor), Jeffrey Horn (actor), Jeffrey Horn (producer), Lukas Roberts (actor), Michael Bertrando (actor), David Hood (actor), Aaron Ikeda (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Romeo and Romiette (2005)

Actors: Conrad Angel Corral (actor), Audrey Davis (actress), Jim Patneaude (actor), Ricky Reidling (actor), Owen Alabado (actor), Albertossy Espinoza (actor), Masud Ronnie (writer), L.K. Avelar (actor), Masud Ronnie (director), Masud Ronnie (editor), Masud Ronnie (producer), Derek Willis (editor), Justin Nakamura (actor), Robert E. Capp (actor), Taage Lander Storey (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Drama,
Taglines: Only love will fill thy heart.

Manic (2001)

Actors: Don Cheadle (actor), Joseph Gordon-Levitt (actor), Zooey Deschanel (actress), Warner Loughlin (miscellaneous crew), Sherie Giehtbrock (miscellaneous crew), Dan Winthrop (miscellaneous crew), Blayne Weaver (writer), Blayne Weaver (actor), Elden Henson (actor), Beth Multer (miscellaneous crew), Michael Bacall (actor), Michael Bacall (writer), Aaron Walrod (miscellaneous crew), William Richert (actor), Judy Dixon (miscellaneous crew),

Plot: Lyle Jensen is subject to sudden and violent outbursts, and he is committed to the juvenile wing of the Northwood Mental Institution. Several other youths are there with a variety of serious problems. Lyle interacts with other patients and staff on a human, and sometimes not so human level. The psychological problems of the patients also forms the fabric by which we see what's right with them, and what's wrong with the society that affects them.

Keywords: anger, bandage, bare-chested-male, baseball-bat, bathroom, beating, bi-polar, birthday-party, blood-on-shirt, bloody-nose
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: i am human You can't escape yourself.

Quotes:

Sara: You know Calabasas is full of fucking J.A.P.s and daddy's girls. I didn't exactly have the debutante thing goin' on. One day I saw her at McDonalds with the nose job crew. That was before I knew my place, so I sat down. My friend rolls her eyes and she says: 'What, you actually think you're good looking? 'Cause you walk around like you're all hot and you're really not.' Then the whole table started to laugh. And I cried for about three days and then I fuckin' resurrect, you know? I just realized that everyone I knew was fucking full of shit. And that's when I started doing whatever the fuck I wanted and not giving a flying fuck what people thought. So I don't really have any friends. I don't need any.::Tracy: We're friends.::Sara: [softly] Yeah.

Dr. David Monroe: Uh, I'm not gonna give you some bullshit hokey speech and tell you that if you come to some epiphany about your dad you're gonna make a break through and everything's gonna be pizza and blowjobs.

Chad: Sex is meaningful.::Dr. David Monroe: [disbelief] You've had sex? [group laughs]

Chad: I'd rather feel like total shit sometimes, and God the rest of the time, than just like - ok all the time, you know? Fuck mediocrity

Chad: That's gotta be the stupidest thing I've ever heard in my entire life!::Sara: Don't fucking call me stupid.::Chad: I didn't say you were stupid, butch, I said your opinion was stupid, because it is!::Sara: Wolverine has steel plates in his bones::Chad: [interrupting] So what?::Sara: And Batman has a little fucking belt and a little fucking cape. What the hell is he gonna do with that? Wolverine would take him down in 2 seconds.::Chad: Batman is so much smarter, and so much more of an intelligent fighter then like::Sara: [interrupting] What is he gonna do? Throw fucking razors?::Chad: he knows like 8 different types of martial arts, he's like a ninja...::Sara: Batman is fucking homo.::Chad: Batman is not a homo. Batman bangs the hottest chicks in Gotham city, left and right, okay? He's a PLAYER!

Chad: All the greatest artists are fucked up.

Lyle: This place sucks ass!

Ratas, ratones, rateros (1999)

Actors: Antonio Negret (actor), Mateo Herrera (editor), Paulina Salazar (miscellaneous crew), Paulina Salazar (miscellaneous crew), Sebastián Cordero (writer), Sebastián Cordero (editor), Sebastián Cordero (director), Xavier C. Salinas (producer), Conchita Villa (producer), Lisandra Rivera (producer), Frankie Hernandez (producer), Carlos Valencia (actor), Hugo Idrovo (composer), Marco Bustos (actor), Alfredo Mora Manzano (producer),

Plot: The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his suffocating family, dragging along his family and friends, in his criminal path. Where will this all lead?

Keywords: boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, cousin-cousin-relationship, debt, drugs, father-daughter-relationship, father-son-relationship, female-nudity, graduation, grandmother-grandson-relationship, gun
Genres: Drama,

Lady Avenger (1988)

Actors: William Butler (actor), Michelle Bauer (actress), Jesse Long (miscellaneous crew), Lenny Rose (actor), David DeCoteau (director), Julia Vera (actress), David DeCoteau (producer), John Schouweiler (producer), Billy Frank (actor), Marco Colombo (producer), Michael Huens (miscellaneous crew), Fred Kennamer (miscellaneous crew), Peggy McIntaggart (actress), Mike Jacobs Jr. (actor), Miriam L. Preissel (editor),

Plot: Maggie's brother is brutally killed by a gang of thugs. Maggie is in prison but is allowed to leave to go to her brother's funeral. At the funeral, she takes off and goes on a quest for her brother's killers so she can avenge his death in a pleasant, violent manner.

Keywords: drugs, female-nudity, female-protagonist, independent-film, murder, reference-to-blade-runner, revenge, teenager, throat-slitting
Genres: Action, Drama,
Taglines: You've seen the rest ... now meet the best. She'll make more than your day. The only thing she couldn't remember...was how to forget!!!

Quotes:

Maggie: You know something?::Annalee: What?::Maggie: You're a cunt.

Black Girl: There's only two kinds of people in this world: The fuckers and the fucked!

The Meatrack (1970)

Actors: David Calder (actor), Jan Stratton (actress), Louis K. Sher (producer), Richard Stockton (editor), Richard Stockton (producer), Richard Stockton (director), Rodney Wheelock (actor), Donna Troy (actress), Robert Jenson (producer), Les Natali (producer), Ronald Ebbert (actor), Steve Ferris (actor), Joel Ensana (writer), Donald Skinner (composer), Bob Romero (actor),

Genres: Drama,
Taglines: The Real Story About Midnight Cowboys