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Two gifted high school students execute a perfect murder - then become engaged in an intellectual contest with a seasoned homicide detective.

10 Years Later is a dark comedy about six childhood best friends returning home for their ten year high school reunion. When one of them kidnaps an enemy from their past and inadvertently gets the others involved, each must decide whether to turn in a best friend or become accomplices in a dark plot that none of them are sure they can pull off.

Hunter, a 17-year-old dealing with the death of his father, creates comic book art to avoid his harmful compulsions. When the creatures in his comic seem to be more than simple drawings, Hunter must overcome doubt and past behaviors to keep himself, and everyone he loves, safe.

Melinda's world is very small. Her dour parents, members of a religious sect, forbid the celebration of birthdays or holidays. Melinda finds solace in small things: a spun silver spider web, her box of treasures, and a stolen afternoon at Silver Lake on her "day of days." As the movie and the year progress, Melinda experiences ageless comforts and pains. A disgraced famous writer and a waylaid college professor, two exiles in the small midwestern town, haunt the edges of her sheltered life. An earthy, warmhearted waitress introduces her to the blues and a fizzy drink called Cola-Cola. She receives her first explorative attention from a boy. Escalating tragedy shatters Melinda's innocence. Devastated, she flees into the night where, by drawing on her tenacious spirit, she ultimately triumphs.

In this "American Graffiti" meets "Ghost" thriller/dramedy, when the novice ghost of a young woman finds the comically inept demon who killed her intends the same for her twin sister, she uses the classic muscle car she haunts and new-found alliances with panicky mortals to try to stop him.

A reunion of family and friends becomes an unforgettable vacation when two teenage boys discover their feelings for each other, only to be found out by their families.

The wacky love life of a surfing-obsessed, middle-age rock star and his ardent Latina wife is exposed when Billy and Esperanza scramble to rein in their misbehaving teen daughter in a character-driven comedy set on California's central coast.

Four friends take a road trip from Colorado to California's Pacific Coast as a vacation and, while frolicking upon a beach shortly after their arrival, they hear a radio news broadcast that tells of a full nuclear war beginning between Russia and the United States with California being one target. Fortunately for the stunned travelers, a young man who proffers use of his late grandfather's nearby bomb shelter and accompanied by a woman met at the beach, speed to the shelter, reaching it immediately prior to a ground rocking nuclear explosion. Two small rooms that comprise the shelter become the setting for the remainder of this movie which develops into a largely character focused drama, tension mounting due to cramped conditions, an aura of hopelessness, and the six characters displaying their true selves, conflicts among the group becoming nearly unendurable, finally resolving themselves by acts of passionate violence.

A behind-the-scenes look at Astrid von Star's unfinished, untitled, avant-garde masterpiece which reveals her many kept secrets of love and loss. Once a top Hollywood film critic, Astrid (Rena Riffel) rebels to create a self-portrait on digital media with the help of her only surviving ex-husband (Greg Heath). She expresses her bohemian spirit while her psyche unravels in front of the camera.

As a boy, Clark always felt like the odd bird in his conservative ranch family. To cope, he created a comic book, "The Adventures of Odd Bird," making himself the hero of his own story. Now 19, a publisher is interested in his work and Clark needs to return home to get the comic manuscript...and tell his mom his truth. Clark fears once he tells her he's gay, he won't be welcome there again.

For the first time since the Korean War, the Army National Guard's entire 40th Infantry Division (Mechanized) conducts a massive field training exercise at Camp Roberts and Fort Hunter Liggett, California.

A man regretfully travels to California during the gold rush of 1849 to risk his life in order to provide for his family.

Huell explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes on the central coast where the enormous set from the 1923 silent film "The Ten Commandments" is buried. Then he goes to Alleghany in Sierra County and descends 1500 feet underground in a gold mine.

Huell gets a personal tour of the Hearst Castle grounds to see the beautiful trees, flowers, walkways, statues, fountains, pool and gardens, all elements of the landscape architecture collaboratively designed by Julia Morgan and WR Hearst.

Huell gets a behind the scenes tour and takes the swim of a lifetime in the Neptune Pool at Hearst Castle. One of the most spectacular pools in the world, it is fed by spring water and surrounded by ancient Roman-style columns and statues.

Huell goes to North Beach Campground at Pismo State Beach to see thousands of monarch butterflies at the largest overwintering colony in the U.S. He gets a tour from a park ranger, docents and a Cal Poly SLO class studying the monarchs.

Huell tours the 80,000-acre Hearst Ranch, owned by the family since 1865. This working cattle ranch surrounding the famous Castle specializes in free-range, grass-fed beef raised using humane, all-natural, sustainable agriculture methods.

At Hollywood Farmers' Market, Huell meets a fruit seller with a poster board loaded with photos of his beloved goat Clementine. He then journeys to visit Clementine and hear the story of this remarkable animal and the man who saved her.

Huell travels to Pismo Beach, on the coast 10 miles south of San Luis Obispo, and learns how its famous clams, plentiful in the region at the turn of the century, did their part in creating the image of this classic California beach town.

Huell goes to Cambria to see Nitt Witt Ridge, an unusual state historical landmark. It was the home of Art Beal, a self-taught folk artist, who built it by hand over a period of 50 years using stones, found objects and discarded "junk."

Huell learns about the rare plants and animals plus geologic and human history of Carrizo Plain National Monument in eastern San Luis Obispo County. Its 250,000-acre native grassland is what much of central California was like in the past.

Huell visits The Hamlet at Moonstone Gardens Restaurant in Cambria. When the owners bought a three-acre nursery and gardens of exotic succulents and cacti, they converted the building to a restaurant but kept the gardens for all to enjoy.

Overfishing and pollution caused the decline of wild abalone along the coast. Huell visits The Abalone Farm, near Cayucos, which has been raising and selling abalones since 1968. He also samples some farm-raised abalone at a local cafe.

Huell explores the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, the state's second largest coastal dune complex. He goes to both Oso Flaco Natural Area State Park and the National Wildlife Refuge with representatives from Dunes Center and US Fish and Wildlife.

Huell visits Hearst San Simeon State Park, one of California's oldest state parks, to learn about a historic conservation plan that will transfer about 13 miles of coastline and over 800 acres from the private Hearst Ranch to the park.