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How thin is the line between politics and madness? The exuberant comedy, Vote For Me!, set in El Barrio, New York City, finds out in one of the funniest satires in years, a razor-sharp look at how quickly the world of elections and candidates escalates into inspired lunacy.

Season:
2004
Director:
Nelson Antonio Denis
Cast:
Ricardo Barber, Malik Yoba, Angel Salazar, Jose Ramon Rosario, Gloria Irizarry, Manuel E. Santiago
Editor:
Ricardo Serena
Producer:
Lynn Tiede, Alex Rodriguez, Roni Wheeler, Salvador Bolivar
Executive Producer:
Ernest Dickerson
Composer:
Sammy Peralta
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Kelly is a beautiful, young 16-year-old who, like many teenagers, feels her life has become unbearably dark and depressed. Her father?s death, along with her workaholic mom, does not make life any easier, and a failed suicide attempt gives Kelly?s mom, Laura, a wake-up call. Hoping a change of scenery will help, mom and daughter rent a house for a long summer vacation.

Season:
2004
Director:
Phil Leirness
Cast:
Marina Sirtis, Dean Haglund, Tucker Smallwood, Lauren Birkell, Linda Park
Editor:
Ed Bishop
Producer:
Robert Ballo, Bud Robertson
Executive Producer:
Jack Heiter, Michael Crowley
Composer:
John Boegehold
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Set in Brooklyn?s Bedford Stuyvesant, Shelter is the tale of three inner-city adolescents: the reclusive 16-year-old Ray (Ray Santiago, of Girlfight and Pinero) who tends his bedridden mother; his brother, Spider; and the very pregnant Maria.

Season:
2004
Director:
Benno Schoberth
Cast:
Ray Santiago, John Rafael Peralta, Marilyn Soto Santiago
Editor:
Benno Schoberth, Lynn Cassatini
Producer:
Lynn Cassaniti, Anthony Artis
Composer:
Anton Sanko
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Pat and Bill take their jobs as rent-a-cops at the chocolate factory very, very seriously. Perhaps a little too seriously at times. So, when the "prototypical chocolate" is stolen during the graveyard shift (Pat and Bill?s shift), nothing can stop them from solving this most heinous of crimes.

Season:
2004
Director:
Brien Burroughs
Cast:
Stephen Kearin, Tim Orr, Regina Saisi, Gerri Lawlor
Editor:
Melissa Lawson
Producer:
Brien Burroughs
Composer:
Jason Tubbs
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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When dumped by his girlfriend, a man must do what a man must do - in this case, get the hell out of town and move to New York City. That?s precisely where this story begins.

Immediately upon arrival in The Big Apple, our hero (or The Brit) learns that the small apartment his sister got him includes another occupant. Enter Panama, who doesn?t speak a word of English and is in hiding from the police. While attempting to communicate in different languages (often resulting in hilarious tête-à-têtes), a budding friendship forms between two people stuck in an outlandish situation.

Season:
2004
Director:
Ef Treize
Cast:
Ian Reed, Bo Corre, Garibaldi Reyes, Ronnie Bobbit, Bianca Rhea
Editor:
Ef Treize
Producer:
Courtney Puig, Ef Treize
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Quality of Life is a poignant tale of creative passion about the need to curb an obsession in order to conform to the demands of society. Director Benjamin Morgan journeys into a world typically seen only on buses and concrete, while inhabiting a subculture that is often thought to exist in the darkness of alleyways and rooftops.

Season:
2004
Premiere status:
North American Premiere
Director:
Benjamin Morgan
Cast:
Lane Garrison, Brian Burnam, Luis Saguar, Mackenzie Firgens
Editor:
Sharon Franklin
Producer:
Brant Smith, Benjamin Morgan, Meika Rouda
Composer:
Count
Language:
English
Genre:
Unassigned

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Julien?s intensely romantic relationship with the mysterious Sylvia unravels when she senses the instinct of a praying mantis growing inside her. Terrified and unwilling to harm the man she loves, Sylvia searches for another lover, and the result is an engaging exploration of the connection between eroticism and self-sacrifice.

Season:
2004
Director:
Marc Levie
Cast:
Lou Broclain, Yann Chely, Sacha Kollich
Editor:
Dominique Rollain
Producer:
Marc Levie
Composer:
Ulysse Waterlot, Laurent Mersch
Language:
French with English subtitles
Genre:
Unassigned

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Obsession is generally considered a negative; something that consumes so much of the mind must only destroy the spirit that enraptured it in the first place. Sometimes, however, an obsession is merely another monotonous habit unless combined with the compulsion to change one?s world for the better.

Season:
2004
Director:
Seisoku Kajita
Cast:
Ken Ogata, Komaki Kurihara, Issa Hentona, Ryoko Kuninaka, Masahiko Tsugawa
Editor:
Seisoku Kajita
Producer:
Yukio Takemura, Makoto Ueda, Haruhiko Yoshida, Natsuko Kitani, Takafumi Ohashi
Composer:
Akira Senjyu
Language:
Japanese with English subtitles
Genre:
Unassigned

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André is a 20-year-old high school dropout who operates the photocopy machine at a stationery-cum-bookstore and lives with his mother. He likes drawing. He really likes Silvia. And he desperately needs $38.

Season:
2004
Director:
Jorge Furtado
Cast:
Lázaro Ramos, Leandra Leal, Pedro Cardoso, Luana Piovani
Editor:
Giba Assis Brasil
Producer:
Nora Goulart
Executive Producer:
Luciana Tomasi
Composer:
Leo Henkin
Language:
Brazil
Genre:
Unassigned

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Renata is the pampered eldest daughter of a wealthy bourgeois family, and Ulises is a native Mexican youth from the wrong side of the tracks. When the two meet in a shopping mall, it is love at first sight. They exchange a kiss and are soon organizing secret assignations and exchanging vows of eternal love.

Season:
2004
Director:
Fernando Sariñana
Cast:
Luis Fernando Peña, Martha Higareda, Armando Hernández, Ximena Sariñana
Editor:
Roberto Bolado
Producer:
Fernando Sariñana, Eckehardt Von Damm, Francisco G. Compean
Composer:
Enrique Quezadas
Language:
Spanish with English subtitles
Genre:
Unassigned
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