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There's trouble in Paradise. Winner Most Outstanding Musical at the 2006 New York International Fringe Festival! At the dawn of time there is perfect harmony in the heavens, and of all the angels Lucifer is the most beloved. But everything will change with the coming of a new creation…Man. Told entirely through music, and with a driving rock score, Fallen Angel is a New Rock Opera in the tradition of Tommy and Jesus Christ Superstar.

A pretentious underground filmmaker struggles with his masterpiece while a scuzzy punkoid chick tries to keep her band from fading into obscurity. Winner of "Best Feature" Award at both the New York and the Chicago Underground Film Festivals, Scumrock is director Jon Moritsugu's (Mod F*** Explosion, Fame Whore) sixth feature. A sprawling epic shot on analog Hi8 video, Scumrock has screened around the world to critical and popular acclaim.

Real beauty lies within people... In search of Beauty, a tourist-girl in London visits various places but does not find them worthy of being photographed. She encounters a talented and successful Portrait-Artist who offers his clients to play a game of Chess with him. The Artist has a condition that if his client wins at the game of chess, then he will draw their portrait at half the quoted price. She learns that real beauty does not exist in places and monuments, but within peop

Subjective images of Seoul Station in Seoul re-organized This film shows new images of Seoul Station, which is a symbolic building of Korean modern or contemporary times. All of the different images of Seoul Station come from two different buildings (the new one and the old one) and reorganized for a new image of Seoul Station in 2006.

surreal green heart of stone green hearts of stone fly around to surreal words,with a sound track which can't be repeated.

Cop, priest, lesbian, stoner - what happens when desire and convention collide? The lives of seemingly unrelated characters intersect as they struggle with their related addictions and obsessions in a search for meaning in a world of conflict.

College crush The classy college average guy finally gets the courage to up and talk to the girl of his dreams with a bit of encouragement from his friend.

A collection of four short animations from 1992 - 2003 by award-winning independent animator Dean Kendrick. "Short Animations by Dean Kendrick" includes: • "The Thirteenth Bat" (1992) Thirteen bats, one by one, inexplicably wreak havoc on the odd people of a Victorian era town. • "Numbering Bad Fruit" (1992) A fast paced visual essay on love, sex, and A.I.D.S. in the late 20th century....

A meditation on the trappings of compromise, and the emotional dynamics of resentment sustained, in the face of an impending conclusion. "Short Day" chronicles the interior stream of consciousness; part anxiety attack, part reluctant confession, and all the seemingly opposing resolutions that are really the alternating rebelling against and conformity to unfulfilled longings for love, respect and peace of mind, of a writer in her early 30's, Natalie, caught up in the consequences of a love triangle and betrayal, while anticipating the impending conclusion in the live-in van of her absent boyfriend, Victor.

Message in a Bottle from the End of the World Shot on location in New Orleans and St. Bernard, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Shrubbery is a DVD collection of 13 music videos which send a message from a not so distant future. Using science fiction as a framing device, experimental filmmaker Tim Lightell explores his own ambivalent feelings about his childhood home and America in general. The videos are intended to be viewed randomly, yet tell a story.

A drunken couple goes into a shabby inn in the hot summer night. They come out to buy liquor in the market, but they get lost on the way back, then, the rain pours suddenly.

Skye, an artist working at a movie theatre, falls in love with Carson, who is in a dead-end relationship that he can't let go of. Skye has given up on love...until she finds Carson. Carson has given up on love...except for Claire. They're stuck in a dead-end job and he's stuck in a dead-end relationship. Amid the cinemas and suburbs of South Florida, an unlikely search for love and meaning unfolds, in a painfully truthful story of attraction, betrayal and life changing choices. Film critic 'Raptorgirl's Lair' says "SKYE FALLING is a bittersweet love story with plenty of quiet charm."

A killer confronts himself Film was a product of a bet that it couldn't be made in 24 hours from idea to screening. Completed in 19 hours.

This was a dream I had when I was a kid. It is an example of how the subconscience deals with experience and consequence.

Two men face terror within an abandoned farm house. Stranded alongside an isolated highway, two men decide to seek shelter within a nearby abandoned farm house. However, they will soon discover that an dark being resides within the hundred year old structure.

A New York advertising company tries to keep their biggest account from jumping ship and taking their millions of dollars worth of hygiene products with them. A deodorant company with a product called "Smell No Mo," pits two rival ad agencies in a race to come up with a campaign for a new-fangled sanitary napkin called Vorcan. The advertising satire follows the New York firm of Cranston & Co. as they fight rival Hoffman & Partners. Cranston (Robert Klein) fires his creative director (Tony Hendra) which puts a young copywriter (Randy Pearlstein) with a literature degree on the front line, even though he doesn't want to be. The contest comes down to a schmaltzy campaign by Hoffman with music by Air Supply that uses the tagline "Vorcan: your own personal air supply." or a more down to earth campaign from Cranston of "The pad ain't bad!" The extremely talented cast includes an early role by Steve Carell (The 40 Year Old Virgin).

Stop-Motion Animation Series A five-part stop-motion animation series about a small clay man stuck on top of a table. He has many strange experiences as he struggles to find a way off the table.

An Artist rescues an abused boy via a mythical warrior.. A boy in need of a hero meets an Artist in need of kinship at an art show. The Artist teaches the boy to look beyond his adversity for something to believe, something to be proud of.

A madman influenced by an unexplained evil, causes hell for others who need to fight him ...And an evil came upon mankind - an accentuated urge to hate one's fellow man. Could the explanation be found in extraterrestrial causes, or is it merely man's natural killing instincts showing itself? In this series, "Here We Are", we're going to follow the lives of a few people who have to deal with this phenomena in their lives. In this first instalment, a madman has turned into an arsonist and makes life a burning hell for a poor guy who has to go find his friend to help him defeat this lover of fire...

A journalist struggles to get the story of Sudanese refugees told under the oppression of the Egyptian government. The Art Of Flight is a guerrilla documentary that was shot illegally in Egypt on camcorders and a laptop. The film serves as a back story to the 2006 massacre of Sudanese refugees in Cairo. filmmaker was nearly arrested three times during the course of shooting. This feature length film tells the story of three people, a refugee from southern Sudan, a human rights activist from northern Sudan and an American journalist in self-imposed exile, all living in Cairo. For very different reasons, the trio has found themselves struggling to survive in Egypt, a U.S. financed dictatorship which has reluctantly become their home.

Some things are out of tune. A young man renounces his christian faith when his younger brother is killed in a bus accident. Turning to Satanism and the occult, it is up his sister to snap him back to normal and to stop him from blaming his vaudeville-loving, banjo- player father for his brother's demise.

MTVu STUDENT AWARD WINNER! In The Beautiful Lie, Claire must come to terms with actions of her past in order to reconcile her future and her relationship with her boyfriend Ryan. A narrative exploration of guilt, The Beautiful Lie tells the story of Claire, who is trying to escape troubling memories of the prior evening, while dealing with her failing relationship. All the while, visions of the night before plague and intensify until her past and present collide.

Sonya dumps Graham during her nephew's circumcision ceremony - proving there's more than one way to get a briss. A Sundance Channel short film. GREAT DISCUSSION STARTER on topics such as relationships, family pressures and religion. In Mitch Moldofsky's incisive Sundance Channel short, a young couple decide to end their relationship while attending an early-morning briss (the Jewish circumcision ceremony), as family pressures and baby talk build around them. With Lori Pearlstein and Christopher Robertson.

Comedian Don Barnhart caught live in concert at Comedy Texas. You've seen him on MTV, Comedy Central and Star Search but now you can take Don home and watch the show you can't see on TV.

Alec Baldwin narrates the story of legendary community organizer, Saul Alinsky, and his modern-day legacy. "The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky & His Legacy," narrated by actor Alec Baldwin, examines the life and legacy of the controversial community organizer Alinsky and his modern-day legacy. The first half of the program chronicles the Chicago-based organizer Saul Alinsky and three key Alinsky organizations to show how his techniques developed over time including The Back of the Yards Neighborhood Council, in Chicago's blighted stockyards in the 1930's. By forming an unprecedented coalition between the Catholic Church and the Meatpackers Union, Alinsky was able to force several landmark concessions from the meatpacking industry. These three organizations show how Alinsky's ideas, in turn, influenced the civil rights movement, the farmworkers struggle and many Vietnam era political protests...

There are those who remember their dreams too well. ***** Awarded Best Score at the Lake County Film Festival!***** A program selection of Chicago's Gene Siskel Film Center, this intelligent and original story is packed with rich dialogue and multi-layered meanings. Kent, a realist who does not dream, is skeptical of those who do. At the end of a long relationship, and desperate for new friends, he seeks the advice of Ori, his mentor. Ori thinks Kent has an identity problem, and sets him up with three people who happen to be lucid dreamers. As Kent befriends them, his motives are questioned. Ori warns him that they are a different breed, and not to get too involved. Kent ignores Ori’s advice, until his new friend shoots him stating, “I know what you are”.

The capitalistic society Seoul is seen through the eyes of North Korean defector, PARK Jung-kil

A guinea-fowl tries to move in with a dog and his masteress, but has a few problems adapting... A lost guinea-fowl finds himself landing at the home of a dog called Slobbies who lives with Ol'Mom, a woman who raises the dog as her son. They become good friends and Guinea-fowl decides to stay. Unfortunately it would appear that he's not going to adapt to his new home too well... Aka "Slobbies and the Guinea-Fowl".

Poong sees The Incredible Hulk playing on TV, and feels a weird sensation run through him A skinny boy in elementary school named Poong has a lot of fears, even running away from a little mutt, but he’s also very playful. He has a crush on a girl named Rang who’s in the same class as his and also the daughter of a vegetable vendor in his neighborhood. One day, Rang sees Poong get picked on by the school bully and his twin sidekicks. Poong becomes devastated. But then later, he coincidentally sees The Incredible Hulk playing on TV, and feels a weird sensation run through him. A few days later, Poong stands on top of a slide and jumps off to find not a single scratch on his body. From this point on, he feels invincible.

Police interrogation rooms are not meant to be warm and cozy, but sometimes they prove that truth isn't always what it seems. Bobby, a clean-cut graduate student is being questioned by Detective Jack Mayo and Patrol Sgt. Frank Martin in a police 'interrogation room'. The session is somewhat hot and furious, when the questions begin to get real personal and we find out that 'truth isn't always what it seems'.

Chucky the Clown goes for a very important interview Chucky the clown goes for a very important interview. Will he get the job? Let's hold our thumbs!

He Sold His Couch for Rock N' Roll... THE LAST AMERICAN is a dark comedy about a slacker named Kev and his strange journey from hard-core street-punk to super-salesman! Armed with a bowl of cereal, a remote control and his middle finger, Kev battles his own fate as he sets out to sell a used couch to a series of innocent victims!

It's go time when a young woman has had it with guys This short is basically a series of punches with a punchline at the end.

Lauren Parker used to be a Star. In this dramatic erotic thriller, Mary Druzba ignites the screen as Lauren Parker, a disgraced ex-elite gymnast who was almost in the Olympics, before a drunk driving scandal ruined her career. Now, in 1999, Lauren lives as her lawyer's mistress in a small apartment in Newport Beach, California. When a strange male hustler enters her life, she is forced to break out of her self-imposed exile.

A DVD "magazine" produced by PepperSpray Productions of activist videos On "The Leader #12: (1) The New Red Scare 5:06 (2) Times Are A Changin' 8:51 (3) Fort Huachuca Demo 6:35 (4) Bushville 6:35 (5) Arlington NW 8:44 (6) Electric Peace Sign 6:07 (7) Social Insecurity 11:41 (8) A Tribute to MLK 7:53 (9) Dustin Washington's MLK Speech 3:30 (10) Defend Yesler Terrace 7:38...

A DVD "magazine" produced by PepperSpray Productions of activist videos On The Leader #13: (1) Indymedia Intro, Portland IMC, 2:00 (2) Wake Up Weyerhauser, PepperSpray/RAN, 8:08 (3) Magic Glasses Ad, PepperSpray 2:09 (4) Whose Cash? Our Cash!, Len Davis, 8:00 (5) Eyewitness In Iraq (trailer), PepperSpray, 2:11 (6) Migrant Trail Walk Dale Roose/Pan Left, 5:00 (7) Downing Street Memo, PepperSpray, 11:30 (8) Corporal Santos' Boots, Patricia Boiko, 3:25 (9) Nothing About Us WIthout Us, PepperSpray, 10:17 (10) Pot Pride, Ken Slusher, 17:28 (11) Recovery Song, Dale Roose/Pan Left 4:48...

A DVD "magazine" produced by PepperSpray Productions of activist videos (1) Radical Cheerleaders-Lila Kitaeff, PepperSpray, 4:40 (2) Toxic Gardens-Patricia O'Brien, Rosa Rugosa Media, 10:51 (3) Working Voices #1- Randy Rowland, PepperSpray, 1:12 (4) Humanitarian Aid Is Never A Crime-Dale Roose, Pan Left, 4:00 (5) Spy On Me-Randy Rowland, PepperSpray 3:42 (6) The Politics Of Art-Patricia Boiko & Evan Briggs, PepperSpray, 8:05 (7) The Portable Classroom: War Monger-Terry Portinga, FVTV,0:23 (8) Katrina Revisited-PepperSpray & Guerilla News Network, 7:04 (9) My Country's Flag is Red Black & Blue-Patricia O'Brien, PepperSpray, 3:22 (10) Tips for Talking to Strangers-Fiona Otway/911 Media Media Arts, 6:24 (11) A Private Says "No"-Patricia Boiko, Pepperspray (12) Judas Goat-Randy Rowland, Pepperspray(13) Recruiters of Campus-Laura Dean, Pepperspray, 8:58, (14) November 2nd Student Walkout-Lila Kitaeff, Pepperspray (15) Radical Review: Why We Fight- Pepperspray (16) The Battle For America-Alrick Brown

This psychological horror tells the story of Meredith Baron, a 30 something woman returning home to close the book on a dark chapter in her family tree. Years ago Meredith’s grandmother, Rosie, was attacked and raped by Theodore Brick. After giving birth to a stillborn child Rosie took her own life. Since that day a curse hung over the Baron home in the small community of Viper's Hill. Looking to make a fresh start Cedric Plume moved his family into the empty house. Soon after he murdered his wife and children before placing the barrel of a shot gun in his own mouth. Years later upcoming business woman Michelle King thought the picturesque home was to die for. Her last thought before opening her jugular with a carving knife was how right she was. Today investigative reporter Jackie Coulter learns that Meredith is returning to the family home to try and put to rest the legend of Vipers Hill. They will soon learn that somethings are best left forgotten.

At once a complex drama and imaginative adult fairy tale, "The Magician King" probes the deep recesses of a young man's being. Far from home, Alex Palermo is a wounded soul who imagines himself as The Magnificent Magician in a surreal world populated with such colorful characters as its drag queen dictator, and his daughter The Pretentious Princess. After Alex is unable to finish college or keep his apartment, a violent event nearly costs him his life. In the hospital, his dad arrives to escort Alex back to his hometown in southwest Louisiana. It is here where Alex finds renewed energy in his family and friends, and where his memory and imagination are refreshed. The movie is partly inspired by a Cajun folktale, is written, directed by and stars Louisiana native Max Cusimano, features the great Cajun comedic talents of Murray Conque and AJ Smith ("Dirty Rice"), and reverberates with the authentic sounds of a variety of musicians, including Lance Conque (Cirque du Soleil).

An old author struggles to write and finds "inspiration" from some unlikely sources.

A shaman and a drum magically change one boy's life. Winner of the best short film for kids at Moondance, “The Mother Tree” weaves the tale of young Martin Slegle. Orphaned and distraught by the loss of his mother, he sits for hours under a tree where his mother used read to him. One day he arrives to find the tree is gone, it's been chopped down by his bully cousins. He begins to cry, but not for long. Soon he meets Knowles, a healer from Africa. Through his friendship with the older man, Martin learns the art of drumming and drum healing. As the boy becomes empowered through his practice, Knowles teaches him to play a rhythm that changes his life forever. This heartwarming coming of age tale was enjoyed by audiences at 7 film festivals across the country. “The Mother Tree" is an engaging story and a delightful experience for young and old alike. Watch it alone or with the entire family.

A forgotten war... An embittered soldier... The battle for his soul. This 26 minute korean war film was an award winning short with action that would come to define Hershberger's directing style. The film proved to be a breakthrough for Lionheart Filmwork's partners Kevin R. Hershbeger, DJ Perry and then Edward Schaefer. This film was a stepping stone on the way to financing their Epic Civil War movie "Wicked Spring." (Ardustry Home Video) Four of the main characters in "THE NEST" played by Jernigan, Perry, Lacy and Merrick can be found later starring in "Wicked Spring." The documentary "The Making of an Independent Epic, Wicked Spring" can be found here on www.indieflix.com that bridges the two films. What a journey that started with some crazy filmmakers filming in PA until the snow storm closed in!

Story book fantasy (semi-animation) After the pink snow fell on the mountain, many strange things happen...... After the red snow fell on the mountain, sealed all strange happenings..... With colorful animation characters

A young boy longs to see his absent father. A single mother, promises her son, Christian, that his absent father will see him for his 6th birthday.

One crime. One take. Two twists. Two unseen detectives turn on a camcorder to record their conversation with Elizabeth (Catherine E. Johnson), whose 4-year-old daughter, Chloe, has been missing for almost a week. For 75 minutes the camera rolls, without stopping. And after some shocking twists, we finally learn what happened to Chloe. Or do we? From the writer/director of the award-winning "Two Harbors" (Best Feature: Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival, Milwaukee International Film Festival, Eugene Film Festival, Victoria (Australia) Festival of Motion Image and the Cedar Rapids Independent Film Festival), "The Quietest Sound" is a disturbing look at the aftermath of a horrible crime. Pairing a remarkable, tour-de-force performance by Catherine E. Johnson (Best Actress, Fargo Film Festival) with an almost impossible technical set-up, "The Quietest Sound" is unlike any film you’ve ever seen.

In The Peaks no one can hear you scream! Samuel Waring is a Park Ranger in The Derbyshire Peak District who has recently lost his mother to cancer. He suffers from mental illness and is socially inept, but he loves the peaks and hates poachers with a vengeance. In a moment of complete loss of sanity he kidnaps a poacher and two hikers for 'crimes' to his peak. Waring then becomes a self appointed judge, jury and executioner...

Under-sea Comedy Gliding beneath the surface in the Pacific Ocean sometime in late 1942, a Japanese convoy has been spotted and the U.S.S. Herring is on the prowl. Weeks of wandering aimlessly has given the crew an energy potential that fires more than just torpedoes. With danger all around them, the perplexed Captain and his assortment of crazy enlisted men somersault from one misadventure into another.

Aspiring writer searches for inspiration and struggles with relationship with musician boyfriend a la the New Wave. Aspiring writer Lizzie Bergeron becomes romantically involved with the subject of an intended article-rock musician Sam. Consequently, she procrastinates and flounders as she struggles for inspiration to write a screenplay. Ending in a confrontation that fortells the fate of the relationship and that contrasts with a concluding note of individual perseverance. Shelved since it was made in 1992, due to a series of circumstances, this short marks the debut film appearance of Irene Bedard who went on to star in "Pocahontas", "Smoke Signals", "Lakota Woman", et. al. Shot in glorious 16mm black and white. And with a soundtrack replete with jazz stylings and rock songs.

Through the ages an Indian bed observes the lives of its owners. An Indian bed, chiselled to be the resting place of lovers. Through the years, the bed observes many lives as it passed from owner to owner. It witnesses love, lust, betrayal, birth, death and rejection. The bed utilises these experiences to entice and enlighten those who choose it as their resting place.

A CEO's daughter contributes to a criminal mastermind's scheme, and something goes terribly wrong. Set in the near future, against a backdrop of industrial espionage and dirty corporate politics, The Scam Artist is the story of Sylvia Heinrich (Kimberly Page, "The 40 Year Old Virgin"), a CEO’s daughter desperate to escape the life of board rooms and corporate oppression that is her birthright. When her boyfriend (Michael Larson, "Last Goodbye") and a mysterious mercenary (Diamond Dallas Page, Rob Zombie's "The Devil's Rejects") set out to help her, greed and desire soon lead to murder and Sylvia must face a horrifying personal revelation... The recipient of two critical awards (Best Picture, Best Director), The Scam Artist explores the nature of identity: the importance of the past in defining it, the urgency of the future to change it, and what it ultimately means to have it.