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- Set in Feudal Japan during the reign of many warlords laying claim to the divine power of the fallen shogun, Vengeful Spirit is a modern opera of betrayal, vengeance, and struggle. After witnessing his family's death at the hands of the feudal lord Matsudaira, Katsu Takahashi grows up in the shadows wracked with guilt and hate. Years later, the boy emerges as a man torn apart, an existence aching with hatred. His sister, Sakura, has been taken in by their parents killers, a brooding empty existence of survival. Lord Matsudaira's power has grown, and he sits comfortably as a young lord in the fragmented Japanese rural provinces. But Katsu has not returned from his mysterious years of solitude with forgiveness in his heart. When the pain becomes unbearable, his animal instinct for revenge consumes him, forcing him to confront his family's killers. One by one, the killers fall victim to a shadow with a burning fury that takes there lives. For each one he kills, Katsu feels not satisfied, but gains a bloodlust that demands to be satiated. He stalks them all, vengeful spirits consuming him. The vengeance can be satiated only by the death of Lord Matsudaira himself, who has waited patiently for Katsu ever since that fateful bloody night.
- A washed up Hollywood director who thinks he's a vampire returns to his hometown in an attempt to reconnect with his son, whom he abandoned years before.
- A college freshman comes to terms after a brutal assault at a frat party.
- AMERICA'S MOST UNWANTED, the newest short-form documentary from award-winning filmmaker Shani Heckman, reveals untold stories of homophobia in the foster care system in the countrys most gay-friendly state: California. California is also one of the first states to pass the Foster Care Achievement Act and A.B.21, which will allow foster youth access to care until age 21. For decades, policy changes are making life better for foster youth, but as bullying campaigns across the country have shown, life needs to be improved for LGBT youth at all levelsour hope is this film can help with this step. LGBTQ foster youth are often kicked out of their homes for defining as LGBTQ and then enter state-sanctioned homes that treat them even worse: 75% of LGBTQI foster youth in state care had experienced physical abuse, 66% preferred to live on the streets CWLA, 2007. AMERICA'S MOST UNWANTED lends the case for more access to LGBT foster parenting and adoption by providing a human face these three youth whose lives would have benefited from such support. Connor was in foster care since age 7 and used education achievement to survive. Savi too entered the system at age 7, stifled by a learning disability and presenting as an out queer, Savi experiences difficulties fitting and has 52 different foster care placements in 10 years. Teruko signed herself into foster care at age 17 after more than a decade of difficulties living with a drug-addicted mother and life in Hunters Point. Teruko also uses education to help herself, entering University of California Berkeley as a fresh-person. Valerie, was born into orphanages and lived in foster homes and on the streets until she entered the prison system at age 15 as an adult. Turning her life around completely, Valerie is a successful published author of six books, a former international journalist and a mentor and teacher of Buddhism. Together, they represent a nexus of challenges facing foster youth in America today: economic and academic inequities, homophobia in the system, threats of homelessness, drug addiction, life in and out of prison, and how self preservation and personal well-being can enable youth to overcome unfathomable challenges.
- A slice-of-life story about a post-collegiate girl looking for a new hobby.
- Omar Ney is a 200-year-old sorcerer doing good works for humanity. He is powerful; but can he fend off great challenges to his purpose here and meet his destiny before his time on earth runs out?
- After Satan has stolen all of the worlds hot dogs, two agents has to go down in Hell and kill Satan.
- The late Carolina Becerra, a San Francisco sex worker, is caught in a downward spiral within a destructive lifestyle of drugs and pain.
- Manufacturing Stoke is a documentary feature, which highlights the surfing community's shift from petroleum based products to more organic and responsible components. The filmmakers traveled across the coast of California to visit surfing legends and new comers alike.
- A middle-aged, recently divorced man is visited by a door-to-door knife salesman. He invites the salesman in for coffee and conversation, hoping to briefly suspend his loneliness. Before long, however, their conversation turns sinister.
- A boy is in love. He is in love with his two best friends, a boy and a girl. The visual storytelling of his internal struggle and relationship with them. The story of friends, and love.
- Pyramid scam, love triangle, and corrupt kids in the small town of Midground.
- "Ruffo" is a feature length documentary about 47-year-old professional surfing legend Anthony Ruffo, his struggles with methamphetamine addiction, and his ambitious efforts to lead his communities - both Santa Cruz and the professional surfing world - out of drug dependency and into a clearer and healthier future. Anthony Ruffo was born and raised on the west side of Santa Cruz, CA. He is regarded as one of the "Godfathers" of the infamous Westsiders surf brotherhood. This famous group of surfers put Santa Cruz on the surfing map. Ruffo rose to surfing fame as the first champion of the Coldwater Classic in 1985 and still to this day continues to surf at a professional level. With the success came partying, with partying came addiction, and with addiction came consequences. Anthony is currently facing a potential five-year prison term for alleged distribution of methamphetamine. His court date is May 9th, 2011.
- On the frontline of an American tragedy, this essay film documents the experience of workers as they 'trash-out' the remains of a foreclosed family home.
- When Maya, a fiercely independent college student, begins to suffer from mysterious chronic headaches and short term memory loss, only the sound of music can bring back her disappearing memories.
- Cleaner Daze, a dark comedy series about addiction, follows Jasmine, a newbie drug counselor, and her eccentric co-workers as they struggle to wrangle a misfit crew of teenage drug addicts.
- During the late night shift at the Kong's Market convenience store, could clerks, customers, crooks and cops converge and collide?
- A young girl deals with her brother's untimely death by adopting an unusual drug habit: injecting gasoline intravenously.
- What starts as a routine hunting trip into the Northern California wilderness, becomes the biggest day of two hunters lives.
- From Hawaii's volcanoes to Greenland's glaciers to meteorites in Australia, teams of international scientists race to solve the mystery of how life first formed on Earth.
- A middle-aged fisherman and a young college co-ed fall in love with each other.
- Set approximately 20 years in the future, we follow a group of survivors in the mountains of Northern California after an apocalypse wipes out nearly 75% of the world's population. There was no natural disaster. There was no war. Abandoned buildings and homes are peacefully still standing. In fact, there were no real signs of immediate danger. How did the world fall to shambles, leaving nothing more than stories of what may have happened? The answers lie within a stranger that stumbles upon this small community of survivors with nothing more than an empty gun and a bloody wooden knife, fighting his way across the country looking for the questions that will lead to the solution. To find out what caused the world to end, and what anomalies now inhabit mother earth, our survivors along with this new stranger, must venture out into what may be the end of their lives.
- A captain's infatuation with his ship leaves his lieutenant pining for the planet they left behind.
- A fascinating and funny mix of spot-on impressions and clever, cutting-edge comedy, from critical thinking comedian, Ian Harris. His keen grasp of science is evidenced by his satirical, skeptical take on everything from religion to global warming-deniers and beyond. Ian uses his unique point of view and an impressive array of comedic talents to deliver a thought provoking style of stand-up all his own. Considered one of "comedy's most brilliant and skeptical minds", this new comedy special from Ian Harris is truly "Extraordinary".
- A British family in the 1730s shipwrecks on an island inhabited by bloodthirsty pirates.
- Four young women in a California coastal town ride the waves, play music and face the challenges and ironies of being a twenty-something American girl at the turn of the millenium.
- The film revolves around an aspiring model (Mercedes), obsessed with obtaining fame. She is soon faced with choices, of what she is willing to do, to become 'famous'.
- A down on his luck street magician and his con artist ex-wife reunite to swindle an accounting firm.
- In a communist East Germany in 1974, a young couple attempts to escape into the West, seeking freedom, by using a handmade boat to cross the Baltic Sea.
- Examines the life and legacy of Sarah Gerhardt. In February 1999, Sarah became the first woman to surf Maverick's, the monstrous wave that breaks in the freezing waters off Half Moon Bay in Northern California. Over the years, Maverick's has become the place where big wave surfers come to test their skills in some of the harshest surfing conditions in the world. Sarah's journey to Maverick's was anything but easy. Surfing became her escape from the hardships of home and faith became the guiding force in her life. One Winter Story traces Sarah's strength and determination to their roots in a beautiful montage of film, voice, memory and emotion. Her journey takes viewers from one fantastic surfing local to another-from the frigid and challenging conditions off the coast of Central California, to the massive walls of water on the Outer Reefs of Hawaii, and finally, to the ominous surfing conditions at Maverick's in Northern California. Through it all, we feel Sarah's love for this sometimes very dangerous sport. We share her fear and frustration, and then her determination to plunge into a traditionally male-dominated arena. Finally, we come to understand how her family and her faith in God help her take on the obstacles in her life.
- In the south of Peru, at the foot of the Andes, the Nazcas built cities and traced an immense network of geometric lines and geoglyphs. To whom were addressed these enigmatic figures only visible from the sky and what was their meaning? A team of archaeologists from all over the world use the latest technology to lift the veil on one of the greatest secrets of humanity. Their new excavation campaigns have unearthed new mummies, fabulous fabrics, ceramics and mysterious elongated skulls.
- When NYPD forensic detective Phil D'Amato takes a call from a lady physicist about her missing husband, he has no idea that her life, his life, and every other scientist working on a top-secret time travel project will soon be in dire jeopardy. As the number of dead begins to mount, D'Amato starts to realize that the suspect is not any one person or group but something much more sinister and dangerous.
- Surfing In California in the early '60's.
- A documentary about the making and marketing of the motion picture "Prey for Rock and Roll."
- A novelist with writer's block is mysteriously stalked by a drifter.
- Coming across an injured peregrine falcon, Paul risks his freedom to seek the help of a veterinarian.
- An unstable, aspiring cartoonist tries to reconnect with his brother and deal with his abusive father while at the mercy of his own creations.
- When Jasper Ankle, the lonely janitor at the Opera, first hears the voice of beautiful understudy Ortenzia Destino, an emptiness in his heart is filled. When the lead is mysteriously murdered Ortenzia takes her place on stage, and from there becomes a famous diva. As Ortenzia's star rises her life becomes increasingly unbearable. Not only is she expected to compromise her integrity, but everyone she seems to get close to ends up dying a gruesome death. Jasper cannot stand idly by as Ortenzia suffers, and will go to any length to save her.
- A child and his mother are forced to run away after thugs kill the father and burn down their house. They go to his uncle house where he learns kung-fu and eventually moves to the USA as an adult.
- BETWEEN THE LINES explores the Vietnam War through the prism of the surfing sub-culture. The film looks at the dramatic effect that the Vietnam War and draft had on young American men who rode waves. Narrated by John Milius, Between the Lines explores the choice that most draft age surfers faced during the Vietnam War era: either go to war or evade the draft. It was one or the other. Between the Lines delves into the lives of two surfers who choose opposite paths. Pat Farley and Brant Page. While following the lives of these two surfers the film chronicles the impact of the Vietnam War on the surfing lifestyle. From the peaceful shores of Hawaii to the canopy jungles of Vietnam, Between the Lines excavates the surfing cultures response to an extraordinary circumstance.
- Maxine lives in a world where friends have become her cast, the river near home is an exterior location for scattering of her father's ashes, and the music on her Mp3 player scores the routine events of her daily life. This invented reality allows her to cope with the sudden, tragic death of her father, a man whose passion for cinema now lives within the heart and soul of his youngest daughter. With her shot list and storyboards flickering through her mind, she directs the final scene in which the father's ashes are scattered. Maxine, however, had never planned on becoming a character in her own film.
- Watch three college pals move to an idyllic Northern California beach town and face local surfers, determined to prevent transplants from stealing their women and their waves.
- Marcy Stills, a college student suffering from OCD, finds her life dramatically interrupted when her childhood best friend appears on her doorstep seeking to fix their relationship after ten years apart.
- Deep Purple performs in the music video "King of Dreams" from the album "Slaves and Masters" recorded for RCA Records. The music video opens with shots of a flag and an amusement park. The band performs against a black background while a young couple ride the merry-go-round.