The Star (1952 film)

The Last Call (2013)

Actors: Rebecca Farina (producer), Rebecca Farina (editor), Rebecca Farina (actor), Rebecca Farina (director), Rebecca Farina (writer), Rebecca Farina (producer), Stephan Berger (producer), Stephan Berger (writer), Stephan Berger (writer), Antonia Farina (actor), Quinn Ochoa-Morales (actor), Megan Murray (actor), Ryan Hickey (actor), Debbie Farina (actor), Stephen Levine (actor),

Genres: Drama, History, Short,

The Best Movie Ever Filmed (2013)

Actors: Aris Kaplanidis (actor), Aris Kaplanidis (director), Aris Kaplanidis (editor), Elias Roumeliotis (actor), Constantina Georganta (actress), Vasilis Paraskevas (writer),

Genres: Action, Short,
Taglines: They promised her the leading part in the best movie of all time...

Recommended by Enrique (2013)

Actors: Lino Varela (actor), Iván Eibuszyc (producer), Mahalia Cohen (producer), Rania Attieh (editor), Rania Attieh (director), Rania Attieh (producer), Rania Attieh (writer), Daniel Garcia (editor), Daniel Garcia (producer), Daniel Garcia (writer), Daniel Garcia (composer), Daniel Garcia (director), Alice Kharoubi (producer), Sarah Swinwood (actor),

Plot: An aspiring actress and an aging cowboy arrive in the small border town of Del Rio, Texas each with a different pursuit. But when things don't go exactly as planned for either of them--the actress slowly begins to realize that the film she came to town for is not at all what she expected (the 'director' is nowhere to be found, the set is run by a group of teenagers), and the associate that the cowboy was supposed to meet had to leave town unexpectedly--the two are forced to wait out their time, exploring the town, and its people. A Latino tale of mysticism, tradition, and the dream of celebrity.

Genres: Adventure, Crime, Western,

The Star (2010)

Actors: Robert Kotabish (director), Robert Kotabish (editor), Robert Kotabish (producer), Robert Kotabish (writer), Gregory Irving (composer), Mark Cray (actor), Kendra Star (actress), Daniel Prischak (editor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Sides (2008)

Actors: Coolio (actor), Christopher DeMaci (actor), John O. Nelson (actor), Keena Ferguson (actress), Melinda Rochelle (actress), Michael Phillip Edwards (director), Spencer Scott (actor), Michael Phillip Edwards (writer), Michael Phillip Edwards (producer), Marc Gomes (actor), Michael Phillip Edwards (actor), Jasmine Waltz (actress), Robert F. Harrison (producer), John Pittman (producer), John Pittman (actor),

Plot: Four filmmakers discover they've 'blown' almost all the money they'd borrowed (from a local loan shark) to produce a film. Desperate, they come up with a plan to film anyway - using the audition tape footage as the actual movie. With each audition they must con the actors into doing more and more in order to succeed at putting together a feature that their gangster benefactor will appreciate.

Keywords: actor, anxiety, audition, bankruptcy, bare-breasts, boyfriend-girlfriend-relationship, brother-brother-relationship, cameo-appearance, cameraman, casting-call
Genres: Comedy,

Andre Royo's Big Scene (2004)

Actors: Hill Harper (actor), Andre Royo (writer), Andre Royo (actor), Christopher Scott Cherot (writer), Christopher Scott Cherot (actor), Christopher Scott Cherot (editor), Christopher Scott Cherot (director), Christopher Scott Cherot (producer), Morocco Omari (actor), JoNell Kennedy (actress), Dana Offenbach (producer), Tamika Lamison (actress), Jonas Chaka (actor), Paula M. Neiman (actress), David Seligman (producer),

Genres: Comedy, Drama, Short,
Taglines: The amazingly true (and increasingly familiar) story of one independent film actor's first day on a big studio movie.

Fast Backwards (2001)

Actors: Chuck Connors (actor), David S. Williger (actor), Gregory Heim (writer), Gregory Heim (director), Gregory Heim (producer), Jon Wesslen (actor), Michael J. Metzger (actor), Caroline Jeffrey (actress), Lee Fulkerson (actor),

Genres: Comedy, Short,

Die Alive (2001)

Actors: J.F. Leduc (editor), J.F. Leduc (actor), J.F. Leduc (producer), J.F. Leduc (writer), J.F. Leduc (director), Eric Lamarche (actor), Donald Briard (actor), Daniel Giroux (actor), Jeffrey Matte (actor), Eric Fontaine (composer),

Genres: ,

Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976)

Actors: Kevin McCarthy (actor), Robert Altman (producer), Shelley Duvall (actress), Pat McCormick (actor), Bert Remsen (actor), Robert DoQui (actor), Geraldine Chaplin (actress), Paul Newman (actor), Harvey Keitel (actor), John Considine (actor), Burt Lancaster (actor), Denver Pyle (actor), Joel Grey (actor), David Susskind (producer), Dino De Laurentiis (producer),

Plot: Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.

Keywords: american-indian, annie-oakley, based-on-play, buffalo-bill-cody, character-name-in-title, circus-tent, cynicism, entertainment, general-custer, grover-cleveland
Genres: Comedy, Western,

Quotes:

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: My daddy was killed trying to keep slavery out of Kansas.::Oswald Dart: How did he do that?::William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Well, my daddy hated slavery with such a passion that rather than let the coloreds get in as slaves, he just fought to keep 'em out of the state.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: Where were ya?::William Halsey: It's the first of the moon.::Nate Salisbury: That's not what Buffalo Bill asked ya! Now where in the hell have you been?::William Halsey: During the first day of the first moon, Sitting Bull visits the sun in the mountains while his squaws move the teepees to the moon path.::Nate Salisbury: Damn it, Halsey! Stop sunning and mooning us! Now where the hell have you been?

President Grover Cleveland: Where will you sleep, Buffalo Bill?::Ed Goodman: You can sleep with me, Uncle Will.::William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: No, Ed, I will sleep out on the prairie underneath the moon and listen to the lullaby of the coyotes. You see, I ain't always been a comfortable man.::President Grover Cleveland: You know, it's a man like that that made this country what it is today!

Maj. John M. Burke: Don't worry about how you feel about where you ought to be... just come on over here where you should be.

William Halsey: Great Father, Sitting Bull has waited to ask you a very simple thing for his people.::President Grover Cleveland: Mr. Halsey, I remind you that in government, nothing is simple.

[explaining why Sitting Bull should be in Buffalo Bill's show]::Ned Buntline: A rock ain't a rock once it becomes gravel.

William F. 'Buffalo Bill' Cody: The difference between a white man and an injun in all situations is that an injun is red. And an injun is red for a very good reason. So we can tell us apart.

Crutch: Come here, Mr. Buntline! Come over here and look at Sitting Bull! The son-of-a-bitch must be seven feet tall!::Ned Buntline: He's getting smaller every year.

Ned Buntline: I bring up this dream business because, well, because things are beginning to take on an unreal shape. Now I was thinking about Sitting Bull. Just put yourself in that Injun's place. You sit in your tepee and dream. And then yu go to wherever the dream may take you... it might come true. And you wait for real life to catch up.

Ned Buntline: Injuns gear their lives to dreams. And what an injun dreams, no matter how farfetched, will wait until he dies to come true. The white men - they're different. The only time they dream is when things are going their way. I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems to me that what Sitting Bull does is a hell of a lot cheaper than mounting a wild west show... which is dreaming out loud.

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)

Actors: Robert Florey (actor), Robert Florey (producer), Robert Florey (writer), Robert Florey (director), Jules Raucourt (actor), Slavko Vorkapich (writer), Slavko Vorkapich (director), George Voya (actor), Adriane Marsh (actress),

Plot: This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized (he is identified by the number 9314 written on his forehead), after which he dies and goes on to Heaven where the number is removed.

Keywords: avant-garde, number-in-title
Genres: Short,