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Featured/Feature Films
Jason (Jesse James) and Kyle (Reiley McClendon), recent friends from different sides of the tracks, become embroiled in the adventure of their lives when they discover a mysterious airplane at the local small-town airport. The boys sneak aboard the plane for a look, but are forced to hide in the luggage compartment when two strange men show up. Soon Jason and Kyle unexpectedly find themselves airborne over the open Arizona desert. After hours in the air, the boys unwittingly uncover a bomb in the luggage compartment. When they burst into the cabin to report their discovery, they find that everyone on board has bailed out. The boys must take the controls and land the plane themselves. But their troubles are only beginning as Jason and Kyle realize that they've foiled a heist to steal millions of dollars from the mob in this high-action, coming-of-age film.
Documentaries
The film explores the life and ideals of a new generation of Chinese, focusing on the beliefs, work and family of a number of China's successful independent Hip Hop artists. The group, spread across China, believe in Old School values; self-expression, freedom and truth to one-self. The film investigates the dynamic between the inflexible political environment and a modernising ancient culture, the issues that are affecting Chinese youth such as Chinese-ness, geography, freedom, family, information, consumerism, wealth and individuality. Finally the film sets out to describe the high optimism of this new generation and the future that they want to build.
Featured/Feature Films
Starring Houston's own SHELLEY CALENE-BLACK “Forgiveness” – Telly Silver Award Winner 2008
Millions of ghosts whisper above Poland’s sanguine landscape long after the dead are buried, long after the ashes have blown away with the wind.
It is a world and lifetime away since Poland was ravaged by terror and war, yet a dying generation’s screams remain stifled, seemingly fixed in time and space by the unspeakable captured in yellowed photographs, crumbling diaries, and fading memories. The generation is, in large part, a generation that bore witness to Poland’s World War II holocaust – many as willing and unwilling participants, as silent observers frozen in fear, or as surviving victims still cowering in silence.
“Forgiveness,” a thought-provoking film by Polish director Mariusz K. Kotowski and award-winning screenwriter Allan Knee, is set in modern America, where Poland’s ghosts can still whisper truth to all who will listen, and to all who try to forget. For many Polish holocaust survivors, Christian and Jew alike, the horrors, betrayals, shame, and often resistance, remains secreted just below the surface, often impenetrable to their families and friends, yet their experiences influence every aspect of their lives.
For two young women of Polish descent, a new generation of holocaust victims, their legacy is passed on to them through one mother’s secret diary, and by the tearful confessions of another mother. At first the young women are torn by anger, frustration, and pain. They finally realize, like their mothers, they can never escape their heritage or forget the betrayals and injustices of the past. But they can comprehend and embrace the incomprehensible. They can finally forgive.
Documentaries
Join John and ten year old son Connor as they tour Kennedy Space Center and watch the spectacular evening launch of space shuttle Discovery. 'Friends in Discovery' follows Connor as he and dad tour the exhibits at the world's most famous space travel port. The film gives audiences Connor's perspective as he learns about the history of the U.S. space program, and also includes exciting archival footage of significant successes in NASA's exploration of space. 'Friends in Discovery' remembers those courageous astronauts who sacrificed their lives for this exploration, and believed it worth the risk.
Documentaries
The documentary tells the emotional marching band story more up-close and personal than ever before. Travel on adventures through the audition process, practices, band camp, the marching season, and 2006 competitions. See the life-changing effects for these exceptional students and consider the ramifications when music programs are cut. Learn about the substantial rewards of disciplined practice, the overlooked technical artistry involved, and dispel the misconceptions about band. This is marching band as you have never seen it before, part drama, reality, comedy, music video, and full-on entertainment.
Young Filmmakers
A couple of newlyweds arrive at the Hotel as it is being remodeled and a can of paint falls over the party going upstairs. The two bell boys try to help them up to their lodgings, causing great disturbance, since one of their trunks is confused with that of another client. This trunk carries a pet cat which will roam all over the building while its owner is in distress trying to find her pet. The next day she makes the two bell boys cause a disaster in the restaurant while looking for her cat. In despair at having to deal with the newlyweds, the young girl and an angry chef, the young manager, who happens to be a black belt, fires the two bellboys.
Documentaries/Featured
Over 200,000 children in California have one or more parents in prison- most of whom are being held more than 100 miles away. The families usualy cannot visit the inmates due to finances, means or opportunities to stay connected . Get on the bus with the children of California as they are reunited with their incarcerated mothers for 4 hours on the annual bus trip to prisons thoughout the state.
Short Films
A gift wrapper works hard over the busy Holiday Season.A loyal customer keeps on coming back. There is a precious gift yet to be unwrapped down their path: Right before Christmas, when the snow starts falling and the bells go jingling, they might fall in love.
Student Films
Glimpse, an experimental nine minute animated short, using stop motion photography, which started as a study of the life of artist and painter Willem de Kooning, evolved into a stream of consciousness narrative concerning freedom from imprisonment, and the impermanence of life. Drawing on top of slate from deserted schoolhouses, the artist used hard pastels to create a dark, uncertain world, sometimes concrete, sometimes abstract. With the camera set up with a timer on sixty-second intervals, the artist hand drew the forty-five hundred stills necessary to complete the nine-month project. With a soundtrack from Lower East Side native, Gary Michael Millus and animation by emerging artist and animator Dustin Grella, the narrative takes on a dreamlike quality better experienced, than explained.
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