AUGUST
2008
4 - BIDDEN - August,
2008 - Miami, FL & Puerto Rico; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: A beautiful
young singer is found dead. Murder or suicide? The suspects include world
famous record producers Roman and Jordan Tobias, Thier handsome right hand
man, the singer’s anguished boyfriend and a sexy photographer who is not
who he seems to be The answer to this mystery reveals a game that is not
only dangerous but fatal. (Posted: May 19, 2008)
400 BOYS - August
25, 2008 - Detroit, MI; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Paiva, a 24 years old girl dropping out from MIT and Baywatch leads
a dazzling tribe of modern-day teenage pirates, extremists of all kinds
wiring the tallest sky scrapers and setting up camp for business on their
rooftops. They practice piracy the way others do a night shift in the 7/11.
A dysfunctional teenager, Paiva’s life is about playing games and she develops
a scam which bring the games and real life so close together it becomes
hard to distinguish them in a daring comic plot of evil becoming good.
(Posted: July 16, 2008)
A LONELY PLACE FOR DYING
- August 4, 2008 - Santa Fe, NM; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: It is 1972.
The conflict in Vietnam continues; the creeping threat of communism grips
the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the U.S./ Mexican border,
KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington
Post. He holds explosive evidence against the CIA, information he will
trade for asylum in the United States. Special Agent Robert Harper's orders
are clear: obtain the documents from Dzerzhinsky and kill him. But there
are things Harper does not know. (Posted: January 17, 2008)
A-TEAM, THE - August,
2008 - Jordan & Budapest & Dubai; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a group of ex-military commandos who escape from a military prison
and roam America, handling covert operations for money. Their latest incarnation
revolves around a group of Iraq War veterans looks to clear their name
with the U.S. military, who suspect the four men of committing a crime
for which they were framed. (Posted: March 19, 2008. Revised: July 8, 2008)
A TRAIL OF TEARS -
August 25, 2008; UnMarked Films, Tel: 310-402-7280. Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: March 26,
2008)
ALFRED HITCHCOCK AND THE
MAKING OF PSYCHO - Late Summer/Fall, 2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
based on the true-story behind the difficult production of the famed Alfred
Hitchcock classic, which brings insight to Hitchcock’s fascination with
the real-life serial killer who served as the inspiration for Norman Bates.
(Posted: July 3, 2008)
APPREHENSION - August
15, 2008 - Los Angeles County, CA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about three couples receiving an unexpected surprise on a 4th of July getaway.
(Posted: April 22, 2008. Revised: May 5, 2008)
CINDERHELLA - August
1, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: April 7, 2008)
DISEMBODIED, THE -
August 11, 2008 - Portland; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: July 16, 2008)
EDGE OF DARKNESS -
August/September, 2008 - USA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Ron Craven, a cop and widower, witnesses what first appears to be
the accidental killing of his daughter, Emma. Distraught by the loss and
further troubled by his conviction that the bullet was intended for him,
Craven takes on the murder investigation with an obsessive zeal to see
justice done. The investigation leads him to uncover an illegal plutonium
stockpile. (Posted: April 29, 2008. Revised: July 14, 2008)
ELOISE IN PARIS -
August 12, 2008 - New York, NY & Paris, France & London, UK; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: Eloise jets
off to Paris for Fashion Week and along with one of Europe's top designers,
finds herself chasing after a stolen dress. (Posted: April 29, 2008. Revised:
July 7, 2008)
FAREWELL ATLANTIS (aka
2012)
-
August 5, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA & Vancouver, Canada;
Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a global cataclysm brings about the end of the world in 2012. (Posted:
April 24, 2008. Revised: July 7, 2008)
FLOWER OF THE FENCE -
August, 2008 - Hungary; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: In 1941, the
16 years old Herman Rosenblat was separated from his mother in a concentration
camp. He would go to the fence of the adjoining compound, where a girl
regularly brought him food, the visits sustaining him through the horrors
of incarceration and war. Years later the pair met again, and their extraordinary
love story continued. (Posted: June 2, 2008)
FOUR BACKYARDS - August,
2008 - New York, NY; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: June 19, 2008)
FRUITCAKE - Late Summer,
2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a boy named Fruitcake runing away from home during the holidays after
he and his parents are caught shoplifting. (Posted: May 19, 2008)
GIRLFRIEND EXPERIENCE,
THE - Late Summer, 2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: A revealing
look at the world of prostitution from an elite call girl's point of view.
(Posted: June 5, 2008)
GIVE 'EM HELL, MALONE
- August, 2008 - Spokane, WA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Malone, a tough private eye who faces off against thugs, hitmen,
and gangsters all intent on prying a valuable secret from Malone. Malone
has sworn to protect the secret and as he solves the riddle of who hired
him, he goes through hell, and gives it too. (Posted: May 15, 2008. Revised:
July 16, 2008)
IN MY POCKET - August
4, 2008 - Los Angeles, CA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: Los Angeles
is a far cry different from the way they make it sound. The city will swallow
you in a breath, if you let it. In a place where nothing is on the ‘unavailable’
list, the choices you make in life can have immediate impacts. The wrong
path is slick and unforgiving and sometimes you only get one chance to
turn around and take that other path. Stephen Jameson’s had his life planned
out for him for quite some time. College, medschool and then to become
a rich and successful surgeon. Problem is, he’s gone down that wrong path.
Drugs have steadily taken over his life, he can’t stay sober and is now
faced with telling his parents he’s about to fail out of school. Rob Vills
is a true ‘Rock Star’ in every sense of the word. His band Evil Twin is
about to go on tour to promote their latest album, but they’ve replaced
him with a new guitarist. Seems Rob can’t stay sober long enough to even
show up to rehearsals, let alone a nationwide tour. The decisions which
they both make over the course of the night, land them both in Second Chances
Rehabilitation Center, one of them almost losing his life. ‘In My Pocket’
takes you on a journey into two very different peoples lives who walk a
path which is not so different from each other. Will Stephen and Rob find
the right path, or will they get lost in the twist and turns of life’s
many roads. (Posted: July 10, 2008)
IN THE FAMILY - August
11, 2008 - New York, NY; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: June 18, 2008)
IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON
- August 11, 2008 - New Mexico & California; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: Small Northern
California town deals with a pack of modern werewolves. (Posted: March
13, 2008)
JOSEPH - August, 2008
- Fresno & Yosemite, CA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: June 3, 2008)
KEROSENE COWBOYS -
August, 2008 - Nevada & Russia; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: May 19, 2008.
Revised: June 24, 2008)
LAST RITES OF RANSOM PRIDE,
THE - August 18, 2008 Calgary, Canada; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: July 10, 2008)
LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
- August 18, 2008 - Detroit, MI; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a successful district attorney who finds himself at the center of
a vigilante plot hatched by a traumatized victim of the legal system. (Posted:
March 5, 2008. Revised: July 8, 2008)
LONG TIME GONE - Late
Summer, 2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a family in crisis that’s transformed by an enigmatic young woman
who insinuates herself into their lives. (Posted: June 5, 2008)
LOVE AND OTHER IMPOSSIBLE
PURSUITS - August 7, 2008 - New York, NY; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: When Emelia's
day-old daughter, Isabel, succumbs to Sids, her own life stalls. She can't
work; she can't sleep; Central Park, once her personal secret garden, now
is a minefield of happy mother-child dyads. Since Isabel's death, husband
Jack's only solace for the guilt of breaking up his sexless marriage with
Carolyn for Emelia's (now-absent) passion and love is joint custody of
William, now five. What Emelia cannot bear most are Wednesdays, when she
must cross the park to collect William at the 92nd Street Y preschool and
take another shot at stepmotherhood. Carolyn, William's furious mother
and a renowned Upper East Side OB/GYN, lives to nab Emelia for mistakes
in handling him. Carolyn's indicting phone calls raise the already sky-high
tension in Jack and Emelia's home, but they don't compare with Carolyn's
announcement that, at age 42, she is pregnant. The news pushes Emelia to
confess to Jack two things she shouldn't. (Posted: March 13, 2008. Revised:
July 14, 2008)
MEDIUM RAW - August
11, 2008 - Toronto, Canada; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: Capturing his
sister's murderer and notorious serial killer "The Wolf", is just the beginning
for rookie cop Johnny Morgan. As he escorts the monster to his new home
in the dark underground halls of Parker's Asylum, bedlam ensues and Johnny
along with a handful of civilians become players in a night of survival
against the world's most terrifying inmates.... Parker's Asylum resides
in the small town of Garden. Its main floor consists of out-patients and
group sessions, however, below the subdued foundation lies an array of
secrets and terror. Warden Dr. Robert Parker has spent years collecting
some of the rarest patients in the country. Among them are Mabel Hatcher,
a 400lb. cannibal, Benjamin Jacobs "Benny the Bull", a gentle giant with
violent bouts of rage, Oliver Walthrop, a schizophrenic with a penchant
for making jewelry out of human toes, Victor Morales "The Hand of God"
, and now the Wolf... In this story of vengeance and obsession, Johnny
Morgan becomes the target of his childhood demon in a perfectly orchestrated
massacre. When his loved ones are once again threatened by the Wolf, will
he stay true to his beliefs or will he cross the dark line and become what
he fears most... (Posted: July 10, 2008)
MEN DON'T LIE - August
2, 2008 - Europe; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a young, idealistic woman falls in love with a Bob, an American expatriate
living in Paris, who runs around with the poor and disenfranchised of the
area, trying to put up his 'artistic' visions in his poverty. Meanwhile,
she is the obejct of affection herself, of a young British aristocrat,
visiting with his glitterati friends in the rich hotels and parties of
Paris. (Posted: May 6, 2008. Revised: July 15, 2008)
NIGHT OF THE DEMONS
- Mid August 2008 - New Orleans, LA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: Maddie Curtis
and her friends Lily and Suzanne go to a wild Halloween party thrown by
party producer Angela Feld at the infamous Broussard mansion outside of
New Orleans. Maddie and Lily both run into their respective ex-boyfriends
Colin and Dex, who’s there with his friend Jason. After the cops break
up the party, Colin and Angela make a grisly discovery. Soon all seven
are trapped in the house, slated to become victims of an ancient demon
called Septem. As Angela, Dex, Lily and Suzanne fall prey, it’s up to Maddie,
Colin and Jason to solve the mystery of Broussard House and make it through
the night, if they can. (Posted: July 8, 2008)
NOTTINGHAM - August,
2008 - London, UK; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about the infamous Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin Hood’s archenemy, as a
hero who attempts to capture a murderous group of criminals who are terrorising
the locals. (Posted: April 4, 2007. Revised: July 9, 2008)
ONE OF THE KINGS -
August 28, 2008 - New York, NY; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Billy, a fresh faced criminal who makes his living as a card mechanic.
Due to a series of unfortunate events he finds himself indebted to a powerful
player in the underground criminal world. Billy moves quickly to create
a team of hip young con artists whose mastery lies in extracting personal
f information and stealing your identity with a single telephone call.
After one of the members of Billy’s crew makes a fatal error they are all
running to protect themselves and each other. (Posted: June 23, 2008)
ONE VERSE - Late August,
2008 - Connecticut; Intrinsic Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: April 21,
2008)
OWNED - August 15,
2008 - Texas & Louisiana; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
set in the world of mixed martial arts staring MMA and UFC fighters. (Posted:
March 11, 2008. Revised: March 27, 2008)
PRINCE OF PROVIDENCE,
THE - August 3, 2008 - Providence, Rhode Island; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about corrupt ex-mayor, Vincent "Buddy" Cianci Jr., a flawed political
genius. His lust for power cost him his marriage, his family, and close
friendships. Yet he also revitalized the city of Providence, where ethnic
factions jostle with old-moneyed New Englanders and black-clad artists
from the Rhode Island School of Design rub shoulders with scam artists
from City Hall. (Posted: June 2, 2008. Revised: June 16, 2008)
SHIFTING THE CANVAS
- August 15, 2008 - Williamsburg & Brooklyn & New York, NY &
New Orleans, LA; Roaring Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Leo Scheer, a Brooklyn artist making a Faustian deal with a local
real estate developer to paint six pieces in four months based on a painting
in a café. However, the piece of work in the café was never
Leo's creation in the first place. While Leo works to become the artist
he aspires to be, he falls in love and realizes that relationships and
art have tragically more in common than a heart can endure. (Posted: November
20, 2007. Revised: June 12, 2008)
SIEGE OF MAFEKING
- Late Summer/Early Autumn, 2008 - South Africa; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: May 17 1900
saw the lifting by the British of the SIEGE OF MAFEKINGduring the Second
Boer War, and represented a major defeat for the Boers. The siege of the
South African town had lasted over two hundred days, and its ending
made a hero of Robert Baden-Powell, who subsequently became famous for
founding the Scout movement. (Posted: January 2, 2008)
SMITTY - August, 2008
- Los Angeles, CA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. (Posted: June 5, 2008)
STORYTELLER, THE -
August 11, 2008 - Philadelphia, PA; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: A chance encounter
with a young girl, Nicole, at his mother’s grave changes Joseph's life
forever. He spends the next twenty years trying to nurture a relationship
with his distant father while he and Nicole become creative partners in
a series of children's books. Joseph is caught in a world between reality
and delusion after his father dies. Those closest to him are desperate
to be there in his fight for serenity, as they watch the confusion unfold.
Has Nicole, his source of creativity, been a figment of his imagination
all along? (Posted: June 4, 2008. Revised: June 16, 2008)
TAKING WOODSTOCK -
Late August, 2008 - Upstate New York; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a man working at his parents' motel in the Catskills inadvertently
sets in motion the generation-defining concert in the summer of 1969. (Posted:
June 17, 2008)
THICKER - August 25,
2008 - Arizona & Louisiana & Pennsylvania; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a brother and sister go to great lengths in an attempt to recover
an inheritance that their recently deceased mother was buried with. (Posted:
June 18, 2008. Revised: June 24, 2008)
TORMENTED, THE - August/September,
2008 - UK; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Darren Mullet returns, a bullied asthmatic, driven to suicide by
his tormented life - ignored by his parents, ridiculed by his teachers
and bullied at school, returns from the dead to pay his teenage tormentors
a final visit. (Posted: June 10, 2008)
TORTURED (aka UNTITLED
VIGILANTE PROJECT) - Late August, 2008 - Toronto, Canada; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: An upper-middle-class
couple's life is destroyed when a pedophile kidnaps and murders their only
child. Obsessed with revenge, the couple seizes an opportunity to kidnap
the killer. (Posted: July 15, 2008)
TRAIL OF TEARS - Late
August/Early September, 2008 - Michigan; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a hiking trip into the woods turns deadly as a group of campers stumble
across an old Indian burial ground on the Trail Of Tears. (Posted: July
8, 2008)
UNSTOPPABLE - Late
Summer, 2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about a runaway train carrying a cargo of toxic chemicals. Pits an engineer
and his conductor in a race against time. They're chasing the runaway train
in a separate locomotive and need to bring it under control before it derails
on a curve and causes a toxic spill that will decimate a town. (Posted:
June 5, 2008)
UPSTATE - August 23,
2008 - Greenwich, CT; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
set against the backdrop of the 2004 presidential election, a group of
high school students conduct a mock election while facing dysfunctional
families at home. (Posted: April 7, 2008. Revised: June 16, 2008)
VICKY THE VIKING -
August, 2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Vicky, a young Viking boy who, in keeping with his none-too-fearsome
name, is a rather weak and timid individual. To counter his timidity, however,
Vicky is constantly coming up with cunning and ingenious ideas to help
his fellow warriors out of all manner of scrapes. (Posted: January 8, 2008)
WHERE HANDS TOUCH -
Late Summer/Early Fall, 2008 - Germany; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
set in Hitler’s Germany and it is about a young mixed race girl begins
a dangerous affair with the son of a senior SS officer. They have to part
and their lives come together at a concentration camp. (Posted: June 10,
2008)
WING MAN - August
25, 2008; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: The film is
about Bob Erdman, an all American good guy, content with his boring desk
job and happy go lucky attitude, finds it difficult re-adjusting to the
single life after his wife cheats on him with his best friend. After unsuccesful
family group therapy, a series of speed dates, a cougar party he'd rather
forget, and the topper, moving into an apartment that just happens to be
right across the hall from his newly ex-wife, Bob's dad intevenes. He drags
Bob to a "Hollywood" agency where he hires a fake friend to be his Wing
Man. (Posted: April 22, 2008)
YE OLDE TIMES - August,
2008 - Michigan; Details
Are only Available By Subscription.. STORY: After years
of performing together, a rag-tag theatre troupe is about to lose its prime
gig at Ye Olde Times Renaissance Faire when the Faire's owner threatens
to hand over their stage to a rival troupe of conceited, classically trained
Shakespearean actors. The gonzo group must revive their act and find help
from an unexpected source - their two new backstage hands, a young actor
and actress who must overcome all manner of subterfuge and opposition to
prove their worth, win the day and - perhaps - fall in love. (Posted: June
26, 2008)
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