A nostalgic glimpse into the lives of Southern California’s suburban youth. A group of teenagers hang on to their last moments of adolescence, as senior year is coming to an end and the pressures of growing up are looming around the corner.
California Hot-dog Champions
While filming a documentary about themselves, the members of a band get together to rehearse at their new drummer’s pub.
Discovering Heaven
In 1969, Captain Dale Black along with two other pilots died in a non-survivable airplane crash in Burbank, California as covered by the LA Times. Dale later came back to life. Today, he lives to tell about it sharing this harrowing near-death experience that is unique, personal, and evocative in[…]
Dance – Finishing Funds
A secondary campaign to finish a silent film for the digital age that explores modern courtship. A year ago, DANCE began with a concept — can we make a SILENT FILM for the digital age? It also began with a series of questions that form the theme of the piece[…]
Kong’s
A low level criminal makes a bad decision leading to serious consequences. Kong’s is a short film built on brute emotion by filmmaker Ian Schiller, who used his home town of Santa Cruz, California, as a backbone to his storyline. Santa Cruz is a town where the tech billions of[…]
The Mountain King
In 1970s Northern California, a counterfeit artist helps his boss with a vanity film project, getting tangled up with a free-spirited actress and some unpredictable criminals in the process. Welcome to Northern California, 1970’s. The Mountain King is a character driven up beat film following a counterfeit artist who gets[…]
Wanderer
A psycho-thriller following a young traveler who is invited to stay the night at a couple’s remote cottage in the California desert. The couple and the young man share a meal and a discussion. An odd tension mounts as we discover who they truly are.
Liquify
LIQUIFY follows the story of Cyra, a college student who uncovers a conspiracy behind the California drought and ends up at a bar in the middle of rural central coast, where a bunch of military veterans decide to take on one more mission and help her.
Boris in The Forest
A short film about a Californian geek in search of his horror hero Boris Karloff.
Companion
Jody sets out on a dangerous wilderness adventure in order to connect with her fiancee who died hiking the very same trail. COMPANION is a gritty, vérité look at the struggle and determination of a woman unprepared for the journey ahead of her. All set amongst the gorgeous – if[…]