These titles include the international festival award-winning indie “I WROTE THIS FOR YOU”, starring hot up-and-comer Brennan Keel Cook as a sexy Hollywood Blvd. waiter by night and a lost-in-dreamland young poet by day, alongside veteran fave Michael Badalucco. "Breaking Bad's" Charles Baker and "Liar Liar's" Krista Allen play the galaxy's oddest co-parenting couple in the out-of-this-world alien abduction comedy “ELEVEN-ELEVEN”. And going from sublime character comedy to the grit of the streets, Porter and Gravitas come full “CIRCLE” -- a high stakes, double-and-triple-crossing gamble where doctors, mobsters, corrupt cops, and the women in their lives never know who's "playing" who.
With this year's stay-at-home graduations, few movies capture today's mood more than the touching and funny, painful and empowering adventures of “SUBURBAN WILDLIFE”, where a fantastic cast of Gen-Z Aussie college girls are about to start their lives in the real world. A different kind of culture shock comes “WHEN ICARUS FELL”, a thoughtful and beyond-timely drama about a Red State town on its way down, while Latino immigrants are coming to try and make their way up. And then there's the drama of a very different kind of love triangle, in the emotional, artistic, and scintillatingly sexy African-American romance drama, “WATER IN A BROKEN GLASS”, based on the acclaimed Odessa Rose novel.
The themes of racial diversity and conflict continue with the award-winning, devastating documentary “The 600”, a heartrending look at the 1993-94 Rwandan Genocide and the country's rebirth and aftermath -- from the people who were there and survived it. (“The 600” was produced by EMMY-winning TV and indie film veteran Richard Hall -- "The Amazing Race", "Animal ER", "Tough Love", "Half-Life" -- who is himself the son of Hollywood icon Monty Hall.) And another documentary combines two cultures with “BLAXPLO-ITALIAN”, a fascinating look at a century of Blackness in iconic Italian cinema.
