Supporting Indie Film
Written, directed by and starring Sol Roth, following a man, a camera, and a ticketing clock. Sol Roth is put through the ultimate acting audition, performing back-to-back parts spanning genres, characters, and stories across the full gamete of human emotion.
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Written and directed by Miranda Nation in her debut feature, struggling to accept the loss of her baby, Claire becomes suspicious of her husband’s relationship with a feisty young woman, Angie. Starring: Laura Gordon, Olivia DeJonge, Josh Helman and Rob Collins.
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Written and directed by Jill Gevargizian, co-written by Eric Havens and Eric Stolze, a lonely hair stylist becomes obsessed with the lives of her clients and descends into murderous madness. Starring: Najarra Townsend, Brea Grant, Laura Kirk, Sarah McGuire, Jennifer Seward, Millie Milan and Kimberly Igla.
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Written and directed by Joe Chappelle, while working with a ruthless, steely-willed political veteran (Jamie Lee Curtis), top national security adviser Libby (Tika Sumpter) signed off on a controversial military action that was supposed to end the war on terror. An action that was taken under false pretences and resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians; four years later, Libby risks her life to expose their lie. Also starring: Ben Tavassoli, Jeff Hephner, Deanna Dunagan, Alex Weisman and Clarke Peters.
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Written and directed by Paul Starkman, dreaming of a better future, a young DJ confronts his family struggles in the streets of Brooklyn. Starring: Arnstar, Shyrley Rodriguez, Joshua Boone, Kareem Savinon, Ioan Delice and Dorothi Fox.
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Written and directed by Cathy Yan in her feature debut, a bumbling pig farmer, a feisty salon owner, a sensitive busboy, an expat architect and a disenchanted rich girl converge and collide as thousands of dead pigs float down the river towards a rapidly modernizing Shanghai. Starring: Mason Lee, Meng Li, David Rysdahl, Vivian Wu, Haoyu Yang and Zazie Beetz.
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Written and directed by Adam Stovall, co-written by lead actor MacLeod Andrews, a man’s job requires him to clean a house, which turns out to be haunted, in the course of trying to exorcise the ghost, he falls in love with her. Also starring: Natalie Walker, Sydney Vollmer and Amanda Miller.
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Written and directed by Evan Kidd, local rapper Kamus Leonardo’s (Damien Elliott Bynum) world is upended upon the sudden death of his girlfriend Destiny, to make matters worse he’s hanging out with a panda bear. Also starring: Melissa Cowan Rattray, Kimberly Avery, Jeremias Hadley, Eric Hartley, Brigitte Moneybound Kelly and Mary Miles Kokotek.
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Written and directed by Valeri Milev and co-written by lead actor Timur Turisbekov, during the Third World War, the American government creates super soldiers by inbreeding human being with pigs, but 25 years later this new race of “Muzzles” have taken over. Ex-bounty hunter Rob Justice (Turisbekov) is tasked with finding out how they came to power and destroying them. Also starring: Danny Trejo, Doroteya Toleva and Yana Marinova.
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Written, directed and starring Michael LiCastri, three recent college graduates are struggling to find work, when one of them finds out that he and his family are about to be evicted and that an old classmate recently won the lottery, they decide to kidnap him for a share of the winnings. Also starring: David Plowden, Keith Surplus, Brian Ballance, Edwin Neal, Linnea Quigley and Yvelisse Cedrez.
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Written and directed by Ali Fakhr Mousavi, a doctor travels to a remote village to get a break from his city life but soon starts to suspect that this quiet little community is hiding something. Starring: Mohammadreza Rahbari, Mohamad Jahanshahi, Behzad Dorani, Manoochehr Azar and Sahar Abdolahi.
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