WORLD PREMIERE
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His lens captured the world of motion - but couldnt help him control his life. In the second half of the 19th century, Eadweard Muybridge, the father of motion pictures, embarks on an obsessive project to record on film "the motion of life" in all of its abundance. His epic quest is eclipsed only by the depth of his jealousy over his beautiful, young wife Flora. As the project progresses, his paranoia over her fidelity consumes him, until questions arise about his son's paternity, causing him to erupt.
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It takes two to make a relationship crazy. A lonely, obsessive and unsuccessful filmmaker meets an aimless drifter and before he knows it, she's living in his tiny LA apartment. He's an eco-freak with a love of post-it notes, keeping his recyclables separate from his trash, and unconventional romances on Netflix. She's an unscrupulous young woman who would rather have an IV of tequila straight into her liver than deal with adult responsibilities. Unable to stand each other and yet not able to leave, both of them vow to make the other's life a living hell.
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Pleasure is her greatest obsession. Sex and alienation play out marvelously in this intense, hypnotizing, and offbeat drama set in New York. Karen, a strong-willed businesswoman, lives alone and rarely gets in touch with her college-age son. She harbors very peculiar tastes in sex, which involve strangers only: Karen picks up men in the street, pretends to be a prostitute, and seeks out masochistic experiences through online dating sites. At one point, she pushes her obsession too far...
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The trials and tribulations of a sex life after children. With humor and wit, Crushed Lives - Sex or Kids? takes on the probing but taboo question: what happens to our sex lives after children? New father Saverio films a documentary to get to the bottom of this matter after an uninspired sex session with his wife. Interviewing couples at various stages of parenthood, Saverio unearths the fear and anxieties that seem to universally plague his peers as they collectively experience the quiet devastation of a dying bedroom.
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He thought she was created for his pleasure... He was wrong. In the late 21st century, Jack is a painter recovering from the mysterious loss of his fiancee - he is depressed, creatively blocked, and reclusive. In hopes to reignite his life, Jack arranges to purchase a Muse: a genetically engineered human form designed to be his perfect partner and fulfill his every whim. But soon after the beautiful and alluring Evelyn arrives, things become more and more unhinged and Jack realizes nothing is as he had hoped it would be...
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Songs, dance numbers and a road to stardom. A quirky musical where no one thinks twice before breaking out in a song, Booze Boys & Brownies is an exuberant and endearingly frank portrait of a heroine with whom you can't help but fall in love. Ambitious, sassy, and a die-hard sentimental creature, young actress Vivian (writer-director Veronica Mannion) has no qualms admitting she would prefer a musical comedy to life.
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Demons, meet the socially awkward.
With the awkward teen sensibility of Superbad, three high school friends, hoping to rid themselves of their uncool social status, set out to make a horror film starring the dreamy, popular girl at school. Things go wrong when the process leaves their lead actress possessed by a demon instead.
Sean Roney, Alex Knapp, Julian Master, Claire Berger, Suzanna Akins, Suzanne Owens-Duval
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After the plague, an empty world where you make your own rules. Astraea, a quickly maturing teenager with clairvoyant visions, and her adult brother Matthew are traversing a lifeless continent after a plague has wiped out humanity. Car-by-abandoned- car, house-by-empty-house, they inch towards Nova Scotia in search of their family, who Astraea believes have survived. Their progress is interrupted by the discovery of fellow survivors James and Callie. Should the siblings push on, trusting Astraea's visions, or stay to make a new life with the flesh and blood before their eyes?
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A fearless outsiders quest for love in the digital age. Quirky and inspiring, David Matthews sticks out like a sore thumb in suburban America. Having searched for love longer than many of us have been alive, David's spent the past twenty years posting personal ads on telephone poles. But, these aren't typical fliers. Included are David's own humorous poems and personal information that may be just a little too much sharing. David's always known he was different, but he wasn't diagnosed with Asperger's until he was forty-one.