Jacksonville Film Festival 2008

This dark comic short film is about a young man who just wants to listen to his music and how far he will go to do so.

A neglectful father's past catches up to him when his Nazi son returns home to discover he has been harboring a family of Jews.

A young deaf man is on his way home to take care of his bed-stricken grandmother when he has a chance encounter with someone who might change his life.

A story about the Wright brothers and their attempt to become the first humans to fly.

“Frekuensia Kolombiana” explores the traditional forms of Colombian music and its relation to hip-hop. By way of interviews, events, situations and landscapes, the documentary, uncovers a youth that constructs from exclusion a movement of hope and truth. As we witness their efforts to self-produce, organize and multiply knowledge, we realize their necessity to perpetuate, communicate, give and exist. Threw the lyrics of Camajan Club , Por Razones de Estado , Zona Marginal and others, we discover the lucid consciousness of a youth that through art, seeks to awaken and renew its society. This documentary represents the voice of the Colombian street. East Coast Premiere

It’s 1952, the McCarthy era is at its peak and big-city reporter, Roland Lu, is returning to his hometown of Millville. When Roland arrives in town he finds the Chinese community is experiencing persecution similar to the early stages of the Jewish experience in 1930s Germany. Roland fears that his old nemesis, McCarthyite thug, Frank Dugan, is behind a plot to steal land from the Chinese, the same way he did twenty years earlier from the Native Americans. Roland suffers from a bad case of racial self-hatred. His old girlfriend, Liz, fears he will sell out the Chinese to write his big story, to win the Pulitzer, so he can be accepted into white society. Either way, Roland will have to take on Frank Dugan. Southern USA Premiere

“Gonzo”, narrated by Johnny Depp, is the definitive film biography of a mythic American figure, a man Tom Wolfe called our “greatest comic writer”. Thompson’s suicide, by gunshot, led Rolling Stone Magazine, where Thompson began his career, to devote an entire issue (its best-selling ever) to the man that launched a thousand sips of bourbon, endless snorts of cocaine and a brash, irreverent, fearless style of journalism named “Gonzo” after an anarchic blues riff by James Booker. Northern Florida Premiere

Upon completing his service in the Israel Defense Forces, Kobi Zucker needed to get away from the pressures of the ongoing struggles of the Middle East. With memories of his tour of duty in the territories fresh in his mind, he comes to New York City on his way to South America. While working to earn money for his trip, Kobi meets the girl of his dreams. Beautiful and intelligent, Leila is everything that Kobi has ever wanted, but Leila is Palestinian, having come to New York from the West Bank with her family following the death of her oldest brother during the Intifada. Despite their differences, Kobi and Leila fall in love. Meanwhile, Leila's only surviving brother, Ghazi, is having his own troubles adapting to life in his new country. Ghazi increasingly comes under the spell of a radical Muslim preacher. Ghazi sees Leila changing and fears that she is no longer an honorable Muslim woman. Ghazi is determined to prevent Leila from dishonoring her family while Leila struggles with her feelings for Kobi and her past. Southeast Premiere

A closeted, middle-aged looser retreats to internet porn, triggering a bizarre mental breakdown.