A sequel to the award-winning short film Paintbrush, Paintbrush: The Epitaph continues to explore interaction in the age of online social networking, focusing specifically on the way it affects ideas of mortality.
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost (Hot Fuzz) reunite for the comedy adventure Paul as two sci-fi geeks whose pilgrimage takes them to America's UFO heartland. While there, they accidentally meet an alien who brings them on an insane road trip that alters their universe forever.
For the past 60 years, an alien named Paul has been hanging out at a top secret military base. For reasons unknown, the space traveling smart ass decides to escape the compound and hop on the first vehicle out of town, a rented RV containing Earthlings Graeme Willy and Clive Collings.
Chased by federal agents and the fanatical father of a young woman that they accidentally kidnap, Graeme and Clive hatch a fumbling escape plan to return Paul to his mother ship. And as two nerds struggle to help, one little green man might just take his fellow outcasts from misfits to intergalactic heroes.
A darkly claustrophobic animation about the strained relationship between a struggling farmer and his creative wife. Reap What You Sew delivers important messages about love, life, art, fear, loathing and scarecrows.
A bare-knuckle fight has been arranged by a Glasgow crime boss to impress his new business partner. He pays former Kickboxing Champion Bill Stewart to throw the fight, to gain the drugs and money from the other Glasgow crime bosses in attendance. The other two crime bosses discover this plan and double Bill’s money to win the fight.
After Bill double crosses the crime boss and wins the fight, he and his wife Sue are killed in retaliation, but Bill’s teenage daughter Rachael is a witness to her parent’s murder. Rachael moves to London, changes her surname to Smith and enters the kickboxing circuit. She then meets up with Special Forces turned hit man Jack Duncan who trains her in weaponry and the skills of being a hit man; thus becoming the ultimate machine for revenge!
Sam lives a relaxed life selling hot dogs in the middle of a road that crosses a forest. His hot dog van, his huge bear and a bit of company once in a while are all he needs.
What happens when western anthropologists descend on the Amazon and make one of the last 'unacculturated tribes' on the planet, the Yanomami, the most exhaustively filmed and studied tribe on the planet?
The film is an acute study of the clashing of these two tribes, the wars amongst them and uncovers the secrets that were buried.
A beautiful young escort, Paul, suffers from trip-like dreams he doesn't understand. These visions are shared by his clients, both scaring and exciting them.
Paul is searching for his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen since childhood, and hooks up with enigmatic film director John Baxter. Desired by everyone but lost to himself, Paul is persuaded to make one adult film, which will help him discover himself, and in the process find his twin. But the journey he goes on is a dark one, involving dangerous clients, an unscrupulous rival producer, and unsafe sex. In discovering his true past, Paul is in danger of destroying himself
For Peter life is simply an act of going through the motions. He keeps an ad on the fridge door as a futile reminder of an age-old ambition, practically forgotten. For Rachel, the loss of someone close continues to adumbrate her life.
They arrive at a poorly attended self help seminar, which promises to help them 'reclaim' their 'impact' on life. However, with the rediscovery of a long-lost childhood dream (and a bit of Curtis Mayfield to boot) they soon realize the true meaning of self-help.
This is award-winning short film was selected into the London Film Festival, Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, the Tampere Film Festival and the Manhattan Short Film Festival, among many others. It has also been selected as part of PBS' Image Union series and was broadcast on PBS Chicago across seven states.
In the eighteen years since Renewed World was started its four founders have been celebrated the globe over for making environmentalism the darling of Wall Street. Tomorrow their shareholders will pass an historic proposal that will combat the thriving black market factories in seven African nations with an incentivized package of corporate aid.
However, the conscience of one of the founders has caught up with him. His nights have been sleepless; his guilt reaches deep. For he knows Renewed World's actions have never been wholly altruistic. Surely, tomorrow is no different.
Tonight, these men will war.
So much of life is a series of moral compromises. To use Star Wars characters allegorically: what if the Emperor (Anthony) and Darth Vader (Teeb) were not up to an overtly dastardly deed, but to an accepted one, one that is legally valid the world over (with the backing of the WTO, World Bank and western governments) but morally questionable.
This film presents the idea that in the real world the true face of 'the Dark Side' lives in the cracks of legal precedents. It's our own face, essentially. And what exactly are we prepared to do about that at the moment our conscience calls?
As Brian's story slides backwards through 15 years of therapy, his daughter's crashes forwards over one devastating night and they collide on that evening - the catalyst of his condition.
