See Ed Asner and Mark Rydell LIVE on stage performing Oxymorons on Thursday, November 13th at 7:00pm. Oxymorons is a raucous two-character comedy that takes place on a park bench near the polar bear cage at a zoo.  Two brothers hash out their sibling rivalries over anything and everything be it money, women or Lincoln Logs! In this two actor ...

Incensed by the tabloid culture which celebrates it, the L.A. Slasher publicly abducts a series of reality TV stars, while the media and general public in turn begin to question if society is better off without them. A biting, social satire about reality TV and the glorification of people who are famous for simply being famous, “L.A. Slasher” explores why ...

A collection of student shorts from Santa Fe University of Art and Design that will tease, tantalize, make you laugh, and maybe even cry. www.santafeuniversity.edu/academics/the-film-school/

There’s little that happens in On Golden Pond that isn’t thoroughly predictable from the start, but the film is blessed with so much star power, charm and honest sentiment that everyone in the audience is willing to ignore the cliches and go the distance. In his last film, Henry Fonda plays Norman Thayer, a cranky 80-year-old retired professor, making his ...

It’s graduation time for the Class of 1959, but five students have just failed their final essay and are facing summer school. However, their English teacher decides to give these five students from different cliques a chance to redeem themselves by working together over the weekend to complete a final project. On their way to a secluded farm in swampy ...

“120 Days” captures an intimate, inside look at the lives of one family of undocumented immigrants who have been living and working in the United States illegally for over twelve years. The father, Miguel Cortes, could be forced to leave the country in four months as a result of his immigration status.  Local police discovered Miguel was in the U.S. ...

Collection of shorts about people taking chance in life and in death. And some are even outer worldly. <h5>Awestruck</h5> A young couple on vacation runs into a strange encounter. <h5>Burying Marilyn</h5> A dark comedy following three roommates’ ill-fated mission to give a proper burial to a Pomeranian believed to be the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. Friendships are tested as their ...

85th Birthday Bash – Cake and Ice Cream social with Ed Asner See Ed Asner and Mark Rydell LIVE on stage performing Oxymorons. Oxymorons is a raucous two-character comedy that takes place on a park bench near the polar bear cage at a zoo.  Two brothers hash out their sibling rivalries over anything and everything be it money, women or ...

Gone Doggy Gone is a comedy about a couple stuck in a lackluster marriage who treat their dog like a baby. Working the grind in Los Angeles they leave little time for each other and what free time they have they spend doting on the dog… until it gets kidnapped! What ensues is an outlandish cat and mouse adventure as ...

Frank Ferrante is a 54 year old Sicilian from Brooklyn living in San Francisco. A lover of life, great food, beautiful women and a good laugh, Frank is also a drug addict, morbidly obese, pre-diabetic, and fighting Hepatitis C. He’s estranged from his daughter, single, and struggling with depression. Frank knows that life can be better than this, and is ...

The Infirmary He’s losing his mind trying to get inside hers. No Man is an Island Everyone has an ending. When’s yours? High Road Let’s turn back the clock Delivery An Unexpected Night, for an Unexpected Shot War Torn The war doesn’t end when the battle is won Smile Why feel emotions when you can buy them? Blow Pop How ...

An unlikely and surprisingly personal narrative to conquer the loss of a friend emerges from an odyssey about the rise, fall and resurrection of an 80’s metal band. The career of Frankie Banali, drummer of Quiet Riot, took a major sideswipe when his singer and best friend Kevin DuBrow died in 2007. In 2010 and at a cross roads in ...

A man bursts into consciousness, disoriented and confused. As he tries to regain is memory, he discovers a mind-blowing truth: he is from a parallel universe. Overcome with forbidden desire, he has broken a sacred rule of law and now must struggle to repair the damaged lives of those he loves before a dangerous government agency destroys them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQsDZd_PEsE www.inversethemovie.com/ ...

Seemingly another ode to the growing genre of ‘young’ people attempting to recapture their youth via drunken revelry, copious fornication and general disruptive behavior…newcomer Nick Frangione’s Roxie twists the genre on its head, switching out these ‘young’ people for folks on the cusp of senior citizen-hood. This proves to be all the difference needed…. Roxie, at its heart, is a ...

An aspiring musician must return home to help save the small Christmas tree farm she grew up on, only to find her true musical roots along the way. Evergreen Lee thought it would be a quick trip home: a funeral, a few well wishers, hang around for a couple days to help her grandfather and younger brother, then head back ...

Christian Sesma, already a successful restauranteur from Palm Springs Ca, was inspired to pursue his passion in filmmaking after graduating from San Diego State with a degree in Anthropology. An avid film buff, Christian decided to make a pair of “no-budget” shorts. Both gained official selections on the Short Film Festival circuit in 2004. That move led to his first ...

Boy’s & Girl’s Club Digital Arts Program, Film 4 Change and AMFM Festival are working with the kids to develop ‘Who Am I?’ student films and create vocational based interest in the entertainment industry as part of their ‘Life Skills Program.’ The students will present ‘Incredible Journey’ a film about the 20th anniversary of congress’ signing of the California Desert ...

The treatment for alcoholism they don’t want you to know about. “Your alcoholism will kill you before your HIV does,” says a doctor to one of the characters. Worldwide, alcohol abuse kills more people than HIV, nearly 2.5 million per year. Yet what the public believes, and Alcoholics Anonymous purports, “Once an alcoholic, always an alcoholic,” is not as true ...

Salt of the Earth is a 1954 American drama film written by Michael Wilson, directed by Herbert J. Biberman, and produced by Paul Jarrico. All had been blacklisted by the Hollywood establishment due to their alleged involvement in communist politics. This drama film is one of the first pictures to advance the feminist social and political point of view. Its ...

Popovich is an ex circus legend struggling as a street performer in the wild west streets of Las Vegas. When his junkyard home full of stray animals gets into trouble, he and his animal buddies use all their circus tricks to save it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H29Gx5zkfWw www.popovichmovie.com/

Cut Poison Burn is a controversial, eye opening, and sometimes heartbreaking documentary that puts the business of cancer treatment under the microscope. Follow the frustrating journeys of critically ill cancer patients as they try to navigate the confusing and dangerous maze of treatment and encounter formidable obstacles in the “cancer industrial complex.”   A compelling critique of the influence of ...

 

Fleeing a personal tragedy, Dr. Ben Rhodes (Miles Doleac) takes a job at a new university, in a department chaired by once-celebrated historian Valerian Hadley (William Sadler), who now fights to rekindle his fading career while caring for an elderly father (John Cullum) whose health fades faster by the day. Both feel a duty to impart the lessons of the ...