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LEMON

2017 - Comedy

Director: Janicza Bravo

Cast: Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera 

 

LEMON is an off-beat comedy about Isaac Lachmann, a 40 year old dud. Isaac is a man in free fall immobilized by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his overbearing family doesn't help matters. What did he do to deserve this? Things were supposed to work out differently for him. Isaac Lachmann had big dreams. Now he just watches as his life unravels. 

 

North American Release: Magnolia Pictures Aug-2017

 

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DAVE MADE A MAZE

2017 - Comedy

Director: Bill Watterson

Cast: Nick Thune,  Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak 

 

Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Dave's girlfriend Annie leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Once inside, they find themselves trapped in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur.

North American Release: Gravitas Ventures

 

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UPLOADED

2017 - Thriller

Director: Kamran Delan

Cast: Chase Ryan Jeffery, Tom Green, Eric Roberts

 

Mark Clifton is an internet sensation with his innovative and high-octane viral prank videos. Despite his girlfriend's reservations, he plans and executes his most daring prank yet, but things go horribly wrong when someone is murdered in the process, and he is falsely accused of the crime. Now on the run, Mark has to prove his innocence, while avoiding the detective hell-bent on bringing him down...

 

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MAGNUM OPUS

2017 - Spi Thriller

Director: Kevin Elliott

Cast: Louise Griffiths, Adam Harrington, Pej Vahdat

 

Daniel Cliff, veteran of Desert Storm and the U.S. Intelligence Community, has turned away from the high pressure to pursue a simpler life as an artist. But when he discovers that his former colleagues are spying on him, tapping phones and computers without regard for the law, Daniel comes out of retirement to right a wrong. Armed with National secrets, he now has to choose who to betray.

 

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SILENCE PATTON

2017 - Documentary

Director: Robert Orlando

Cast: Cait Brasel, Peter Reznikoff, Don Kruizinga

 

Silence Patton asks the question: Why was General Patton silenced during his service in World War II and prevented from receiving needed supplies that would have ended the war nine months earlier, freed the death camps, and prevented Russian invasion of the Eastern Bloc, and Stalin's murderous rampage. Was the tragic collision with a US Military truck that lead to his death perhaps no accident at all?

 

 

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NERDLAND

2016 - Comedy

Director: Chris Prynoski

Cast: Paul Rudd, Patton Oswalt, Hannibal Buress,

 

'Aspiring actor John (Paul Rudd) and would-be screenwriter Elliot (Patton Oswalt) are two LA dudes approaching their 30th birthdays without yet becoming the megawatt superstars they know they were meant to be. In a town built on who you know (and who knows you), the ambitious duo will set out on an all-day journey through their all-star rolodexes to make it big by the end of the night.

 

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US Theatrical: Dec, 2016 - Samuel Goldwyn

 

 

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STRAY BULLETS

2016 - Crime, Thriller

Director: Jack Fessenden

Cast: Jack Fessenden, Kevin Corrigan, James Le Gros, Larry Fessenden

 

In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.

 

"Strikingly impressive" -Hollywood Reporter

 

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US Theatrical: Feb, 2017

 

 

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BOKEH

2016 - Sci-Fi

Director: Geoffrey Orthwein, Andrew Sullivan

Cast: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary

 

On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wakes up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event leads them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.

 

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US Theatrical: Mar 17, 2017

WW Netflix: Jul 1, 2016

 

 

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TRANSPECOS 

2016 - Thriller

Director: Greg Kwedar

Cast: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.

 

On a remote desert highway, a makeshift Border Patrol checkpoint is manned by three agents: Davis, Flores, and Hobbs. It's like most boring days, but soon the contents of one car will change everything. What follows is a journey to uncover the surreal, frightening secrets hidden behind the facade of this lonely outpost. The end of the path may cost them their lives along a border where the line between right and wrong shifts like the desert itself.

 

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US Theatrical: Sep 9, 2016

 

 

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BETA TEST 

2016-Action/Sci-Fi

Director: Nicholas Gyeney

Cast: Manu Bennett, Larenz Tate, Linden Ashby

 

Champion gamer Max Troy discovers events in a new video game are being mirrored in the real world, and must join forces with the game's protagonist, Orson Creed, to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister plot overwhelms the city.

 

 

 

 

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THE BET

2016 - Comedy

Director:  Ryan Ederer

Cast: Alex Klein, Dallas Page, Jake Roberts

 

A down on his luck man gets into a high stakes bet where he has one summer to find, and hook up with, every girl he had a crush on from 1st to 12th grade. 

 

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THE ASIAN CONNECTION 

2015 - Action/Thriller

Director: Daniel Zirilli

Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White

 

Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang's vengeance. When Sam is killed, Jack turns to the love of his life, Pom, and the couple becomes a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde that takes the fight to the gang.

 

US Theatrical: May 13, 2016

 

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SHARK LAKE

2015 - Action/Thriller

Director: Jerry Dugan

Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane

 

Meredith Hendricks happens to also be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market, exotic species dealer named Clint is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known.  Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and her team discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake.

 

US Theatrical: Oct 2, 2015

 

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THE GRIDIRON 

2016- Comedy

Director: Gary Delaney

Cast: Michael Dixon, Dorsey Levens

 

Living a majority of his life as a dreamer, Derek has never amounted to anything no matter how hard he tried. Determined to finally show the world he can succeed at something, he decides to pursue a dream that has every odd against it: form an American Football team in the UK, a country dominated by soccer, rugby, cricket and fish & chips. However, his desire to prove everyone wrong consumes his life, and his drive for success just might lead him to lose everything.

 

                    

 

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SIX GUN SAVIOR 

2015 - Action/Adventure/Western

Director: Kirk Murray

Cast: Eric Roberts, Matthew Ziff, Martin Kove, Lorraine Ziff 

 

Cowboy Lane McCrae finds himself double crossed after making a deal with the Devil to revive his dead brother. To make things right, he takes his vengeance out on the wild west.  

 

 

 

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OPERATION: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH!

2016 - Family

Director: Mark Cartier

Cast: Denise Richards, Chris Browning, Caitlin Carmichael

 

When a new neighbor, Dr. Vargus and his daughter, move into a quiet neighborhood, the local kids find the last week of their summer disrupted by mysterious disappearances and strange noises coming from the new neighbor's house. To the deep dismay of his mother (Denise Richards), James and the local neighborhood kids combine forces to find out what's really going on at Dr. Vargus' house. 

 

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BAD HURT

2015 - Drama

Director: Mark Kemble

Cast: Ashley Williams, Johnny Whitworth, Theo Rossi, Karen Allen

 

Life for the Kendalls has been burdened by grief and claustrophobia. Faced with caring for one child with special needs and another with PTSD, the family struggles for a sense of stability at home in their Staten Island, NY hamlet. When a secret from the past is revealed, it threatens to tear them apart.

 

US Theatrical: Feb 12, 2016

 

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The AFM is not a festival - it is the largest motion picture market in the world. 8,000 industry attendees, including producers, distributors, directors, agents, writers, lawyers & bankers. Over 540 films screened, most world or U.S. premieres.

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