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Desert is the Dirt Heart follows a mysterious cowgirl through a barren landscape as she chases faded memories and desert mirages. She encounters a cadre of dusty characters whose intentions are unclear. They push her mind and body to its limits, conjuring the source of her quest: a child.

On the shores of the Salton Sea, a disenchanted killer ('Last Action Hero's' Austin O'Brien) gets friendly with the locals while clashing with his superior (Anthony DiMaria). Along the way, he crosses paths with two young women (Melissa Stephens, Ethel Mayville) on a weekend escape from the city.

Love Child is a perfect blend of horror & comedy, cute & disgusting, originality & homage. If you like babies, laughter, and dry heaving this is the flick for you. Starring Hanie Lynch, Bo Roberts and Ward Roberts, who also did the writing, directing & editing stuff.

A film by L.A.’s Furious Theatre: On a fateful night in the bowels of Hollywood, three Industry bottom-feeders rescue America’s hippest, edgiest director from drowning in their pool. What follows is a violent, comic and surreal journey full of toxic desperation and soul-corroding vanity.

A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. A raw, edgy look at what life is really like in L.A.

In this modern telling of the Poe’s short story, The Tell-Tale Heart, a widowed old woman must take in a border. The border possesses something that chills the old woman: A tattoo of an eye. The eye reminds her of her husband's killer and she cannot escape it. She realizes the eye must be destroyed.

In Winner Takes All, self-involved but seductive beauty Ryker (Gavyn Michaels) convinces his two lovers (Hunter Lee Hughes and Adrian Quinonez) to fight over him. And we mean, really fight. Ryker's slave Simon (Alec Mapa) reluctantly serves as the referee.

a non verbal narrative of one woman's journey though space and time. strange characters emerge and she is faced with her past, or is it the present? an avante-garde film that's an homage to Godard and the French Noire greats.

"The Steve Project" is an hourlong documentary/character study of Steve Kessler, longtime Village Idiot/Savant of L.A.'s Fairfax District. Following a period of five months before Steve is to be turned out of his subsidized housing.

A surreal bus ride into the dark heart of the American West.

Four couples gather for an impromptu engagement party where they get to play an underground game that tests their hidden desires and loyalties. Don't miss this award-winning short, written by Summer Sinclair ("Born Again Bohemian") & Angie Hill.

Scream of the Bikini is a 1960s action-spy-thriller spoof about bounty hunter, super models who save the world from evil madmen bent on world domination.

A recently laid off finance executive negotiates with a hapless elderly couple to rent a spare bedroom in their dingy suburban home. Before the couple knows it, he’s turned their whole world upside down. For more info: www.tenantfilm.com

FORGIVING THE FRANKLINS (2006) is the hilarious and absurd tale of what happens to a conservative North Carolina family after the burden of Original Sin is lifted from them through Divine Intervention. Sundance, SXSW, Nashville FF, Santa Fe FF.

A pretentious but well-meaning documentary filmmaker (Warner) stumbles upon a hip new indie rock band called “The Moustache Bravado”. As he examines the behavior and relationships of the band members, we learn how they have each contributed to the band’s abrupt success.