2007 Film Synopses

A homeless man sits across the street watching a mother and her two young sons. Their relationship becomes clear when she offers him help.

The Association of Competitive Questioning is growing slowly, but to an odd group of devoted fans, the world is focused on little else.

When two men having bad days collide in a liquor store, comedy ensues.

An account of the grim and ironic death by freezing of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon, told using a combination of archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hours.

A story that will lift the shroud of secrecy and let you look into the exclusive back-room dealings of the world's rich and powerful.

A struggling novelist encounters an aging Hollywood Diva, a Jazz Musician and a Vietnam Vet. These three characters will change his life forever.

Big sisters . . . The Tooth Fairy . . . who would you believe?

Six-hundred-five film clips are assembled and used to create a piece of electronic music.

15-year-old Malia has just been kicked out of her boyfriend's apartment. On this chaotic day, she encounters Elias, a homeless autistic man with OCD, and Zeke, a recovering alcoholic living and working in the streets. By the end of the day, the paths of the 3 are forever altered by their chance encounters.

In an age of technicological integration and urban life, people turn to the natural world for a wilderness experience. In this animated documentary, New Zealanders attempts to fathom their deep, personal connections to the land.

The solitude of a military hospital can't prevent a gay veteran from reliving the traumatic events that took his leg and made him both a hero and a statistic.

Two long-feuding enemies finally meet on the same side of the US/Mexico border, but in a dangerous game played out in the extremes of the desert, is the predator the Coyote or the one in the Ten-Gallon Hat?

Life is full of challenges, but when 75-year-old Beverly Burns stumbles upon something she initially finds horrific she determines she has a choice: she can dwell on the tragedy or she can find the comedy.

We all have our doubts...

A visual and musical journey following water through its cycle from land to sea and back again.

Two fractured souls find each other in group therapy. Will their bond survive their own hang-ups?

Where desire ends and addiction begins.A film about the amount of food in a society which has lost its proportions, about the work of people, who don't know anymore, what their calling is.

A tango dancing hustler and beautiful german assassin throw themselves at each other in a moment of passion. But before they know it, the jealous tendencies of a small-time mob boss have them doing one last tango for their lives.

A Man and a Woman who have met on line experience the power trips and anxieties of a first date. But when tensions boil over, the comedy takes an absurd turn. And the date spirals in a weird direction neither ever dreamed of.

From the Ashes tells the story of Megan McOwen, a seventeen year old drug addict, and her struggles as she awaits transfer to a state juvenile prison.

The fallout from a disastrous blind date forces two polar opposites to find common ground as the rest of the world falls apart around them.

Immediately after the Nov. 2, 2004, election, while most Americans and mainstream media ignored the election's outcome, a group of concerned citizens found a way to challenge it.

In a world where freedom of speech and expression are outlawed, one man finds hope and a reason to live through art.

Follow a hundred dollar bill down the fog filled streets of Ocean City, MD as it explores trust issues and questions coincidence.

When a Spaghetti Western meets a Singing Cowboy movie on the streets of Baltimore, there can only be Love & Music.

A love triangle with two unwitting players.

What would Jesus do if he were a teenage lesbian? That's the question Jamie wishes someone could answer for her as she struggles with her secret crush.

Two friends and aspiring film makers down south, have to overcome their opposing ideas, lack of cashamoneyriginis, and complexity of their relationship in order to get a short film made.

When he was four-and-a-half, my little brother was obsessed with Christmas and spiders. But that year the holiday was the last thing on our minds.

A lonely, high functioning mentally challenged man falls in love with a 900 sex-line operator, and through that call, both find redemption.

A girl reveals details of her ever present struggle with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.

An origami tale of a skillful paper folder who could shape the world with his hands.

Charlie is just a guy from Indiana trying to make it in Hollywood. To keep his dream alive, he'll have to rely the gifts of every mid-western kid: a love of booze and the ability to tell outrageously wild tall-tales.

Originally a sound-art work created for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver by musician/artist Ronnie Cramer, who scanned the covers and inside pages of a number of lurid, vintage paperbacks, then ran the collected image and text data through a variety of synthesizers. The resulting sound files were then processed and remixed into the soundtrack for Pillow Girl film; the visual portion of the film makes use of the over 200 covers, with one illustrated figure morphing into the next every two seconds.

Aids does not play favorites, what's YOUR status?

In a village in central Iran on a hot summer day a young boy sells balloons in hopes of buying ice cream. His struggle is paralleled with a city man, whose car blows a tire, causing him to search for a way back home. The two stories, though independent to themselves, are united by an umbrella, which shades each character's journey.

See Rock City is the story of a one-time stage performer who makes a daytrip to Atlanta to give what may possibly be her last performance before an audience. She is accompanied by two friends--Diz, an old friend she's known since childhood, and Charlie, a young 20-something guy who keeps reappearing in Annie's life. Both friends dislike and mistrust each other as much as two people possibly can. Before the day is over, however, Charlie and Diz come to realize that they are both --equally--necessary in Annie's life. The film stars stage actress Susan Jones Mannino, Broadway performer Annie Morrison, and Steven Hill, from MTV's The Real World Las Vegas.

Slippery Shiny Feathery Things is a collection of cinepoems (cinematic poetry) that captures the unflinching need to fly, despite the frailty of feathers and other winged things.

Trapped in routine Junct finds his life has some purpose.

If you choose not to conform, it conforms to you.

An ashmatic mail carrier races for his job through the office when the company he works for falls on hard times.

The Meatrix returns with The Meatrix II 1/2 at www.moremeatrix.com. This time, our heroes Moopheus, Leo, and Chickity take on another facet of industrial agriculture - meat processing. Picking up from their last adventure at a dairy farm, Leo and Chickity attempt to rescue Moopheus, who has been kidnapped and taken to a slaughterhouse. The Meatrix II 1/2 has been created and produced by Sustainable Table (www.sustainabletable.org) and Free Range Studios (www.freerangestudios.com) for Participant Productions and their social action campaign around the Fast Food Nation movie (www.participate.net/fastfoodnation).

Dark and secretive, this journey will leave you with shadowy questions playing on your mind.

Think BIG showcases Ghanaians with big aspirations and big plans. Flash hotels, fabhomes and full-on modernity are where it???s at; dependence makes Ghanaians sick. Thisfilm turns the usual pity fest on its head and showcases Ghanaians who are makingthings happen and putting African-led development on the map.

Experimental animation that explores the relationship between motion graphic techniques, electronic music, typography and the use of traditional graphic design ideas as a way of visually organizing an animated film.