Short Movies

Once upon a time, Little Bo Peep lost her sheep and was forced into early retirement. She blamed The Wolf for the slaughter of her sheep and was never allowed to tend sheep ever again. After that traumatic event, Bo Peep eventually grew up and became the best public defense lawyer in the land. Now she faces the most difficult case of her entire career: defending The Wolf in the infamous Red Riding Hood rape trial. Every pig, witch and princess anticipates the outcome of what has turned into the most controversial trial of all time.

A woman is thrust into an alternative reality during a drug induced high where she is dancing in a world of her own. The woman's perceptions are shaken as her two realities collide. As the intensity heightens and her confusion escalates, she is forced to choose between her two loves.







A young woman is thrust into an alternative reality during a drug induced high where she sees herself as a beautiful dancer with no worries in the world. When her drug dealer shows up at her apartment her two realities are intertwined as he toys with. Just when the woman is submitting herself to the drug dealer her boyfriend arrives where a triangle of desperation begins for the woman. The love of her life wants to take her away from her addiction and get her help where her drug dealer wants to invite her into a world of ecstasy. As the two men fight over her, the woman's perceptions of herself and the men in her life are surreal and she is confused as to what is real and what isn't. As the intensity heightens and her confusion escalates, she is forced to choose between her two loves.

Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine. "Not like last time!!" Baby Herman immediately swallows his rattle and is rushed to the hospital. The rattle get's out, but then Roger swallows it and doctors are about to cut him open when the lunch whistle goes off. Roger and Herman blast off around the hospital on a jet powered "Hare Splitter" machine. They get blown into the air, the rattle is rescued and everything is fine - until Roger sees the hospital bill!

Set in early 1700s England, a mysterious stranger arrives in a remote village populated by highwaymen, whores and lowlife. He offers payment for certain 'papers' from a local Lord. Soon after, another stranger arrives ~ an attractive girl ~ looking for this very man. Neither she, nor the stranger, are what they seem. A highwayman caught between the two of them quickly discovers his world is about to end as the Devil's work begins.

Never have two people had less in common. A lonely widow living on Manhattan's Upper West Side and the greasy building super who suffers her beck and call. As an old baby grand piano collects dust, a mysterious house guest makes himself at home.

A child's dream of war, honor, patriotism and his conflicted feelings about his father's service in the Air Force. As images flash through his mind, his subconscious delves into everything from the American establishment's portrayal of war to the cartoon-like nature of violence in the media.

A foreign action flick suffers a massive stroke and begins to lose its recollection of image and sound. The dying film's narrative is explored through incisions and splices on the operating room table unfolding a complex analogy between the process of film making, storytelling and the concept of memory.

Storybook characters Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Goldilocks, Alice, Dorothy, and Red Riding Hood are in group therapy dishing and dealing with what comes after "happily ever after." When Clara, a New Jersey divorcee, joins the group, she finds out that while life is no fairy tale, it doesn't mean her dysenchantment has to be terminal.

An aimless, unemployed, shy guy named Alex signs up for a 3-week stay at LABCO, an experimental drug testing facility. For $3,000, he agrees to become a human guinea pig and receive daily injections of a mystery drug. As the study progresses, Alex meets another volunteer named Crystal. Beautiful, smart, funny, with a mischievous streak, she is the girl of his dreams. Their relationship deepens with every injection, but before long, the side effects of the drug begin to kick in. As the volunteers become ill, paranoid, and violent, the study is abruptly terminated. Separated from Crystal, Alex learns the true nature of the drug he has been taking and faces the prospect of never seeing his soulmate again.

In the wake of a devastating hurricane, Christy and Denny, former baseball rivals, return to their native ball field to partake in their annual tradition. An at bat. It's about talent. It's about honor. But most importantly---it's about respect.

On a family trip to Florida to visit his sick father, The Smoker leaves his napping, pregnant wife and his iPod addicted step-son in the motel room for a cigar at the beach. As a storm approaches, The Smoker pulls up a chair to the water's edge, smokes his cigar, and begins to pretend. At once, two high-octane Bikini-clad Asian tourists catch him off-guard and on-camera as they play and pose for the drugstore Kodaks they carry. As they begin to undress, The Smoker conjures up a more mature romance, The Woman in White for an exotic and erotic encounter. As they begin to make love, The Smoker gets the call from a distant Freighter and is instantly playing poker in the ship's belly with four Mariners from distant lands. The insight that their obsession with women echoes his own and has rendered them all quite mad drives The Smoker from the game. He retreats into a corrected but unsustainable vision of his own family. Then he sees-the wave. Huge, swelling, mystifying, the wave grips The Smoker in a wish for release. The Smoker walks into the towering wave which crashes over him. The sea becomes calm. The Smoker's chair is empty.

Painter Van Dyke Tarleton is consumed by his desire to complete his masterwork, a portrait of Lucifer. But he lacks the proper model who can portray the evil soul of the devil. Sent out West with his wife Naomi for his health, Tarleton encounters outlaw Bowie Blake and sees in Blake the face he needs for his painting. Blake is not interested in modeling, but agrees after Naomi's entreaties. Blake begins to fall in love with Naomi, especially as Tarleton insults her persistently in order to obtain the proper expression on Blake's face as he paints. Blake leaves them, unable to stand the situation. But when outlaws assault Tarleton and his wife, Blake returns to resolve the conflict once and for all.

In a darkened room two men come together to play the ultimate game of chance, Carl has nothing to lose, his life already torn apart by addiction and homelessness, but still he clings to hope that things may turn around. The darkman, an enigmatic stranger who is willing to risk a fortune on the thrill of a life time, but is he all he appears to be? After witnessing the horrific death of another player, Carl must decide whether he has nothing to lose and everything to gain, but what is he really placing at stake? The stakes are high, and the risk is great, but when the bullet flies and the game is over one question remains. Who really won?

Twilight's Grace follows Norman (Adams), a recently widowed elderly man, who must confront the effects of losing his life partner. Dismissing isolation, he enters a mysterious world of romance, tenderness, and warmth which he fears as well as needs.

Dr Abbas Imad completes his residency and joins a hectic group practice. He dreams of paying off his debts and making his live-in grandmother comfortable. His well planned future starts to shatter after his lover moves in and they have to deal with Grandma Ariana's difficult behavior. Hoping this will pass Abbas throws himself into his work believing things will work them-selves out. Ultimately, Ariana's dementia proves to be the real issue at hand, and Karl ends up in the role of care-giver. Abbas has to come to terms with his denial, a stressful practice, his relationship, which is about to end, and the harsh reality that the loving woman who raised him no longer exists.

Young schoolgirl Emily (KIRSTY LEVETT) has been caught running in the hallway again... She is kept in detention and is forced to write lines by her teacher (DOUG BRADLEY). All alone in the eerily quiet classroom, Emily's night becomes a nightmare when she discovers the mystery of the 'RED LINES'.

The uncensored investigation into disappearances of the three film-makers in 1994. See interviews with friends and family of the three film-makers, and learn the entire mythology of the Blair Witch, including a news reel interview with Rustin Parr!

A visual and verbal palindrome, this short black-and-white noir uses the same footage (played forward, then in reverse) to tell two opposing stories. The first is a love story, emerging from darkness and hurtling toward a romantic meeting that climaxes in a kiss. The second story, though seamlessly connected, begins where the first ends, starting from the kiss and spiraling back toward darkness. It is thus possible to derive from the footage three separate stories: the love story of the first half, the tragedy of the second half, and the doomed romance of the whole. At once a stirring mood piece and a highly disciplined examination of the impact of movement, this palindromic ode to classic noir offers a uniquely new perspective on narrative cinema.

In an enclosed, bleak future, Carter is becoming the domineering manager's golden boy - until he meets a woman who has been smuggling contraband to the shut-in factory workers. Carter must decide whether to continue an increasingly meaningless existence or push the limits of faith and logic by venturing outside.

'AUTEUR' is a satirical comedy/character study that follows an ambitious video pirate from delusions of grandeur to a well-deserved fall from grace. ERIC PELHAM, our protagonist/anti-hero, thinks he's a real filmmaker as he callously films major motion pictures, then 'pirates' them into VHS and DVD copies to be sold on the black market internationally. Although he claims to be engaged in this nefarious activity in order to raise money that will produce his own screenplay, Eric quickly learns that the rest of the world, particularly the world of Hollywood, is not as foolish as he thinks, and he isn't nearly as clever as he would like to believe.

Paul has discovered he's starting losing his hair. He's worried because he thinks he will lose Sarah, his girlfriend, too. He runs to visit a pharmacist and tries a new product, but he will forget to read the small print and the problems will begin.

The entire fast food racket was controlled by two 'clowns' Jack and Mickey D. Until mafioso Bobby arrived, now he sells a million cheeseburgers a year. Bobby has excellent employees and it is made sure that customers don't get too picky about fat percentages and certain ingredients. Everything is strictly taken care of by the 'customer complaint department'. But still the fast food business remains a tough business when trouble arises with a certain employee.

The gang gripe about the inconveniences caused by wartime rationing. They find the insight they are seeking by putting on a show based upon Benjamin Franklin's _Poor Richard's Almanac_.

Meet Fred and Joe, two shlubs with lots of baggage. Toiling in the lost luggage claims department of BWI International Airport is not as glamorous as it might sound. Supervisor Fred dispatches lackey Joe Schlepp to return the misplaced bags, and disgruntled passengers always seem to hold Schlepp personally responsible for losing their gear. Slogging through another terminal day at the airport, a chance encounter with B-List beauty queen Miss Randallstown puts Joe on cloud 9. But life back on the road takes its toll as Schlepp faces verbal slings, slammed doors, and delivery drudgery at every turn. Questioning his ability to carry on, a mental tailspin seems imminent, but an epiphany from the Goddess of Lost Luggage propels Joe Schlepp toward a surprise destination.

Originally entitled Stephanie's Courage, this is a film about a young woman who is trying to escape an abusive relationship. Through the help of her best friend and new boyfriend, Stephanie begins to recognize her self worth. But, as Stephanie tries to move on, she realizes her past won't let her go so easily!

A woman alone in a rain-swept cabin is shocked by her attraction to a bizarre picture that she took that day in the woods. Shot entirely on one set, in one room, "Killing Off" blurs the line between fantasy and reality. It is a glimpse into the mind of a woman and a repressed memory: the root of her fantasies and nightmares. Dark and twisting, it's a disturbing psychological thriller that ends in the ultimate nexus of sex and death. "Killing Off" marks the directorial debut of Jud Cremata, and a reunion of talented artists from the prestigious School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California.

"Between us" is a modern day lovedrama which takes place during one night, in one apartment with four people. The young writer Adam invites his beloved girlfriend, his succesful bigbrother and his brother's beautiful wife for dinner. They're having a good time. But there's a special occasion for the invitation. Adam has a suspicion that his closest family are keeping a secret. To reveal it, he has prepared a special plan for the night; - a sexy and highly untraditional 'rescue plan', which fails to such an extreme that all four of them are forced into the most revealing, absurd and heartbreaking situations...

A punk girl, Alyce, travels through a David Lynch/Maya Deren adaptation of an H.P. Lovecraft short story. She travels through a strange land with stranger inhabitants to find a mysterious violin player who holds too many secrets for this new world.

This unique short film follows the night of a young British insomniac named Jack, narrated almost hour by hour from a first hand perspective. You see what he sees, you feel what he feels, you experience the horrible delusions and the verge of insanity as he struggles to find the thinning line between reality and the subconscious.

Mind the Gap begins with an angry student crowd protesting in front of a building. A radio news bulletin tells us that these are students - attempting to gain access to a board meeting which they believe will decide future fee structure at the university. An immaculately dressed woman - on her way to the meeting - threads her way through the throng and enters the building foyer. She goes to take the stairs but is prevented from doing so: a cleaning lady blocks her path, with a sign that says - 'STAIRS CLOSED FOR CLEANING: PLEASE USE LIFT'. After an agitated conversation with the cleaning lady, the woman resolves, against her wishes, to take the lift. A girl is inside when the lift arrives. The woman hesitates - naturally, considering the commotion outside - but composes herself and enters. After a several moments, the lift breaks down. The woman, who is claustrophobic, has a panic attack. The girl, surprisingly, manages to calm her, and the two begin to talk. The woman confesses her feelings of doubt about the current role she finds herself in, her guilt about her opposition to the students, and her regret for the sacrifices she has made in her life to achieve success in her career. The lift eventually starts and the two women, it would seem, come to greater understanding of each other. The woman leaves the lift and hurries to her meeting. The girl, meanwhile, takes the lift back down to the very floor at which the woman originally got on. She exits the lift, and as she approaches the cleaning lady, she removes the 'STAIRS CLOSED FOR CLEANING' sign and hands the cleaning lady a fifty-dollar note. Through a series of flashbacks, we see that the entire episode - from the lift stopping, to the maintenance woman who answers the distress call from the intercom - was orchestrated by the girl, and as the woman enters her board meeting, the girl enters a room of students to listen to the meeting now being transmitted through a radio 'bug' she slipped into the woman's coat whilst comforting her. The girl is congratulated by her fellow students and joins the group. After some moments of reflection, her initial look of satisfaction turns to concern and sadness - she has duped a woman that, in other circumstances, she probably would admire.

Chads took their toll on the 2000 Presidential election in more ways than one. Reverberations from the controversy were felt around the world, but none felt it more than King Patsá and Queen Norjean from the small country of Mulvany. Who could have guessed that their family vacation to the Sunshine State would end so dramatically? With the media's spotlight focused on the turmoil surrounding the tabulation of voting ballots, the kidnapping of their daughter, Princess Elvia, went largely unnoticed - until now.

From a driver's point of view, we come to know the streets and avenues of Los Angeles. Through the film's music, both the bright side and the dark side of the city become one and we learn that above luxery, povertry money...we are all connected.

"Save Virgil," a short film by Brad Ableson ("The Simpsons"), combines live-action and animation to tell the perverse story of Virgil (voiced by Adam Carolla), a cartoon character who is mysteriously born into the real world. Shunned by his classmates, nomadic biker father, and porn-star mother (Ginger Lynn), Virgil hitchhikes to Hollywood in search of his soul mate, Viking Girl, a voluptuous TV cartoon action-heroine he believes to exist. Along the way, Virgil deals with monkeys, motorcycles, marijuana, and learns from Gary Coleman the tragic price of fame.

This IMAX film shows exotic places that still exist and gives new insights into the Earth's diverse landscapes, peoples and animals. From the last remaining old growth forests of British Columbia, the snowy peaks and glaciers of Alaska, the red rock canyons of Utah and Arizona, the tropical jungles and underwater mysteries of Borneo, the ancient ruins of Thailand and remote deserts of Namibia to the white sand beaches of New Zealand.

Buster clowns around in a blacksmith's shop until he and the smithy get in a fight which sends the smithy to jail. Buster helps several customers with horses, then destroys a Rolls Royce while fixing the car parked next to it.

In his prison cell, Clyde reads about the glamorized life story of Bull Moose Brannigan, a 1920's gangster, in installments in a magazine. He dreams of the day when he gets out and can enjoy the life he reads about. As the day of freedom approaches, the warden shows Clyde how Brannigan ended up, i.e., "the last installment."

Scott and Emma Harris are married. Scott struggles with his once-promising musical career while Emma pursues her graduate degree in Psychology. One night, Scott discovers a note revealing an infidelity. The same night, her former lover, who seeks to rekindle their affair, approaches Emma. Separately, Scott and Emma must evaluate their relationship and determine whether to move on with their lives or try and salvage the love they once had.

Anthony's dull office job leaves him in pain, longing for fresh mountain alpine air of Switzerland. His camp boss is driving him to distraction and London life leaves him dazed and confused. He thinks he's suffering, maybe from TB. He needs Fresh Air. Switzerland might be the answer. Then his old friend Rob Mem Ferda gets in touch. Rob is founder of a new company 0800Friend.com, which offers friends, and an answer to all sadness in the modern world. Rob offer Anthony a job in his new company saying that it's going to be huge. Anthony ponders his option in the crazy world of Soho, London. The chaos drives him mad. Then Rob comes to the rescue. He has a friend for him to meet. Unfortunately, things go somewhat wrong when Rob sends Anthony on a date with a rather weird work colleague of his William Tom Wontner. Anthony escapes his new friend and runs into a fantasy world of the Swiss Mountains, a beautiful Heidi, and the surreal and perpetually lost Kritzi......the little goat. Yet has Anthony now finally found happiness in his lost world?

Young Jeremy and Lilly Sell suffer through a traumatic event on the Appalachian trial. Several years later, Jeremy shows signs of awakening from a catatonic state while residing in Three Bridges, a hospital that houses as many hallways as it does hidden agendas. Dr. Becker, an ambitious young doctor, will stop at nothing to animate his prized patient. He influences Nurse Henshaw, the head nurse, and manipulates Nurse Johnson, an inexperienced young woman, to bring Jeremy out of his static state, rattling Jeremy's rage and uncovering long-thought dormant demons. In a place where the unconscious remains elusive, arousing the truth can be fatal.

Wallace Waverly is a socially sheltered, high functioning mentally challenged man who has lived with his mother all his life. Upon her death, Wallace finds himself alone and lonesome, rattling around in mom's big, old Victorian home. Wallace's days now consist of playing ragtime on the family piano and gazing out the front window. One day, as he browses through the personal section of a newspaper he sees an ad that reads: 'Lonely? Need Love? Call 1-900-HOT BABES.' Wallace, taking the ad literally, dials the number and falls in love with Tiffany, the 900 sex-line operator he encounters. 'My Name is Wallace,' while a sweet and touching comedy, is also the story of personal salvation through love.

Ian is an eccentric, late twenties introvert on the verge of falling for his deceivingly happy-go-lucky co-worker, Maxine. Although both admit an attraction to each other, a strange void of physical contact persists until a breakfast invitation triggers a day of discoveries that push Ian's desires to the point of an unusual and intimate proposal. Humorous and sensitive, caring and quirky, "The Touch" is a heartfelt glimpse into an elusive romance that culminates in an uncommon finale of sexual tension and emotional uncertainty when Ian and Max risk their feelings and their friendship by daring to cross a uniquely intimate line.

After their father disappeared on flight 19, Mark was forced to take care of the family. Money was scarce forcing Mark to steal to make ends meet. After their mother takes ill, they became desperate. On July 4th, 1947, the brothers' lives would change forever. An alien possessing their father's body kidnaps Peter. Mark must follow the alien to save his younger brother before it's too late.

In a seemingly quiet suburban neighborhood, a boy has gone missing. The only person willing to recognize the disappearance is Greg, the neighborhood mailman. After he questions the neighbor she only seems concerned with the disappearance of her dog. Could he be wrong about there being three boys. He has been mailman in this neighborhood for 10 years, and seems sure that he has delivered mail to all three boys. After second guessing himself, he realizes that the other boys might be in danger. What, if anything, did happen to their brother? Are they trying to protect their father? When Greg confronts the boy's father he doesn't get the answers he wants. What happens next is surely not something he could have expected.

Their 1968 Dodge Coronet is as well known as Starsky and Hutch's Gran Torino. Their bend-the-rules, loose-cannon policing rivals that of Dirty Harry. They're inspectors Finn and Loutorri, and they spend their days busting the skulls of no-good criminal slimeballs. But as they patrol the mean streets, something is starting to become a little too familiar about their job.