Local Films

A professional killer, Frank Ng, had always been able to easily dispose of any intended victim to get the job done and the job was always done well. That is, until he accepts a job to take out a mysterious figure who has been involved in some disappearances of young girls. Frank finds himself in over his head, battling for his life and for his world, as he goes head to head with an ancient evil, the God of Vampires...

Breaking from the "MTV / VH1" exploitation format, this production is a personalized study of, and by Rod Price, former lead guitarist for the power blues band "Foghat" and his work to record a roots based album with a pre-"Foghat" former band mate and blues vocalist/harp player Graham "Shaky Vic" Vicory. Extensive interviews with the performers and use of Rod's personal collection of pictures and clippings from the 60s and 70s will place the viewer in a better position to understand Rod's attraction and commitment to Chicago blues. Plus, it investigates Rod's personal experience with some of its masters both in the USA and UK, and explores how and why a major musical idiom had to migrate to England to gain wide spread acceptance. Included will be live peformance and in-studio footage shot at various locations around New England and New York State.

Life through the eyes of a sixteen-year old boy growing up in Boston's north side. Director Francine Pellegrino captures the richness of Boston-Italian heritage while exposing the importance of love, family, and neighborhood.

One of the few fully bilingual American independent films, this dramatic and hilarious story celebrates how a Puerto Rican mother and daughter confront a lost father, lost language, and lost love. Misunderstood and equally stubborn, these women clash powerfully and comically until they realize how much they need each other.

In this genre-busting feature, director Zachary Stratis plays himself - a filmmaker trying to get his traditional Greek-American family to make a musical film celebrating their lives. When the character Zack tells his family that the film will include the fact that he is gay, the fireworks begin. His father is dead set against his publicly "coming out" and his brother and sisters decide that the film should be about them. As the family takes over Zack's film, their musical numbers reflect each family member's unique slant on life. The twist is that it's all real - Zack's actual family play themselves and the issues that unfold are from the heart.

J.D. likes women. Women like J.D. He offers them romance. They offer him money. So, where's the problem? "Occam's Razor" is the story of J.D., a modern American man searching for a backdoor to success. When the door he opens leads inside his own mind, J.D. is plunged into a metaphorical landscape where he is forced to confront the hidden truths of his own self-deceptions.

This short film focuses on the lives of two young girls whose mothers believe that they can communicate telepathically with Jesus Christ. The mothers use their devotion to Christianity as justification for the abuse and neglect to which they subject their children. Adapted from a story by Joanna Kleinschmidt

In a film that is at once funny and disturbing, a war-torn suburban family struggles to survive in a dystopic future in which America is besieged by unknown invaders, and they learn how little distinguishes human beings from man's best friend.

A naive gorilla finds getting a job in the big city isn't as easy as he thought.

A modern-day gangster film based on the ancient Greek myth of "Midas and the Golden Touch."

When nine travelers are thrown together in a godforsaken food and fuel stop, a fatal case of mistaken identity results.

Two Irish brothers become vigilantes and try to fight crime in their neighborhood. But are the methods they use any better than the criminals they hunt?

A couple on the lamb, takes cover in an abandoned warehouse, that happens to be owned by a cult, the couple makes a deal with the cult, for their unborn child, in exchange for some gold, but the couple backs out, the leader of the cult unleashes the undead on them.

Two lifelong friends start a counterfeiting ring and they soon find out that "money changes everything."

"Cry for Me" explores a young man's battle with depression and its affect on his personal relationships. His depression manifests into a human-like form, instigating a powerful life or death struggle.

Sherry Wingtight, a motor-mouth, coupon-clipping woman from Rhode Island, is so obsessed with bargain-hunting that she hasn't noticed that her husband, Al, has been dead for the last five years. After recovering from the shock - and flush with Al's life-insurance cash - Sherry takes him to a swank resort where she finds new and ever more creative ways to make money off his sorry ass.

Female assassins are hired by a foreign government council to find and capture a quantum-nuclear engineer wanted for mass-murder, who is working for the U.S government, and living in Brookline.

The story of Fernald State School, the first institution in North American created for developmentally disabled individuals, and the people who built, who lived and who died behind the walls of the institution. Behind-the Scenes: The film, formerly titled IDIOTS, SIMPLETONS & FOOLS is anticipated to complete shooting in Summer 2001, with an edit by 2/02.

This atmospheric drama reminiscent of gothic literature tells the story of two men whose love for the same woman becomes obsessive and even deadly. One is driven by his selfish desires while the other searches for redemption.

In an alternate universe, mankind has become a victim to it's own technology. As the world crumbles around them, humans fight to regain their hold on the planet. One young man, stricken by the pain of his unnatural life, searches to find a solution to man's struggle. his solution is to usher the Earth into it's final battle - the battle between Heaven and Hell.

n this gripping tale of of environmental activism, six handline fishermen in rural Nova Scotia seize a Federal building and barricade themselves inside it for 26 days. Men like Alfred Brannen and his son Boss say government regulations threaten hundreds of environmentally-friendly handline communities on the Atlantic coast. Yet the US and Canada allow big draggers to tow 500-pound iron doors across the fragile ocean bottom, destroying valuable ecosystems and killing spawning fish. These boats crush and damage much of their catch in nets the size of several football fields, and discard 30 million tons of fish each year. Based on the most current scientific knowledge, and containing interviews with high-ranking government officials, DFO scientists and corporate CEOs, this film is both an intimate portrait of one small Nova Scotian community's struggle for survival, and a cautionary tale for countries who may be destroying their own ocean ecosystems and traditional fishing communities.

A college senior can't seem to break it off with his girlfriend, although it's been more than "enough already."

Racing to catch the last ferry to an island getaway, a middle aged couple recognizes an injured body on the side of the road. The couple, missing the ferry, stops to help the boy who refuses police involvement thus beginning an intense plot of hidden desires and suspicious activities.

An elderly widower (Willie McKee) and his buddy Vic drive from Boston to the suburban town Willie left 60 years ago in search of Willie's long-lost love. These old geezers haven't left Boston since the end of World War II, and team up to find Willie's true love, toll change, coffee and someplace to pee. As Willie puts it, they may be old, but they still feel. They still love. A funny, touching story told with flashbacks to 1939 and two memorable characters in Willie and Vic.

Lincoln, a young man stranded in an airport, reflects on his romantic involvement with three very different women. Lacking the ability to commit to one relationship the tables turn when all three women strike out with plans of their own that don't include Lincoln.