COMING SOON
design by Michael Ostro
Genre: Drama
Writer/Producer: Robert Montano
Synopsis: Just entering his teens, Nicky Corbo is ridiculed for his shortness, told he’s stupid and that he’ll never amount to anything. And that’s his life, until one fateful summer afternoon when his mother brings him to Belmont Park Racetrack to bet on her friend, the legendary jockey Robert A. Pineda. Riveted by the thoroughbreds and the jockeys, Nicky is determined to join the ranks of the little people in the “Sport of Kings”. Against his mother’s will, Nicky finds a way back to Belmont and is eventually mentored by Pineda in his passionate quest to fulfill his dream.
But Nicky quickly learns the harsh realities of becoming a jockey, as he struggles against mother nature to keep his weight in check. His race now… is against time. During this four year journey, he battles bulimia, drugs, near homelessness and the tragic death of his mentor before an unexpected transformation takes place
Genre: Coming of Age Love Story
Writers: Richard LeMay
Directed by: Richard LeMay
Synopsis:The Summer of Aiden Post is a tender story of two young men who find first love in a small Northern town.
When high school football star Ryan Wright meets edgy musician Aiden Post, their last summer before college is turned upside down. What starts out as a summer of keg parties and picking up girls, quickly takes a turn as their friendship grows into something neither of them expected. As lingering glances turn to awkward moments, the two suddenly find themselves in a passionate affair. While Aiden has no qualms about their relationship, Ryan must deal with keeping his secret from the rest of the world.
The Summer of Aiden Post is a coming of age drama which explores passion, sexual awakening and the confusion that often comes with them. Touching and beautiful, this story is about inspiration, courage and the power that first love has on us all.
Genre: Comedy
Writers: Jeremy Kareken & David Murrell
Log Line: “The formerly homely but now beautiful recipient of a forced makeover must stop a fiendish plot to give breast augmentation patients more than they bargained for: Haunted breast implants.”
Synopsis: A Makeover Madman is on the loose, beautifying women against their will. Plain Janes are being nabbed and awakening with new hairstyles, rhinoplasty, liposuction and, most especially, new D-cup implants. Julie, the Makeover Madman’s latest va-va-va-victim, enlists the help of nigh-incapable Police Scientist Hank Penfold to locate the rogue surgeon before another innocent woman turns up gorgeous.
Their investigation leads them to a mysterious new plastic surgery clinic located on a secluded estate. There, joined by the world’s greatest crippled pianist and lock-pick, they face a private army of surgically enhanced hottie-zombies guarding the awful and awfully well-endowed femme fatale Narissa, who has co-opted the Makeover Madman’s skills for her own infernal ends. There, they must defend Life Itself against the cleavage of evil.
Genre: Suspense Thriller
Writers: Jimo Salako & Anthony Stamp
Directed by: Jimo Salako
Synopsis: Lucy Chalmers is a talented, successful and dangerously vulnerable photographer, who is passionate about photographing strangers. Her boyfriend Carlo is secretly in debt to a violent criminal gang. When she finds herself framed for the murder of her best friend Annie, the fragility of her past life quickly becomes apparent and she decides to go on the run. Only through discovering an inner strength is she able to overcome the forces ranged against her and clear her name. This haunting thriller is also about one of the 21st century’s defining themes – immigration – and the shadowy industries that spring up to exploit people’s hopes for a better life, as well as being a bitter-sweet love letter to the city so many people come to: London, a place where compromise and corruption are the flip side of success.
Cast: Lara Belmont, Claudie Blakley, Nick Rea and Jack Kretzer
Sales Agent: Moviehouse Entertainment
ZANGDOKPALRI
Documentary Feature
Director: Justin Strawhand
Cinematographer: Tim Gorski
Synopsis:
On a remote hill in eastern India, said to be haunted by the local people, a unique group of the finest artists from Bhutan and Nepal have gathered over the past eight years to work under Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche, one of the last remaining visionary masters of Tibetan Buddhism. These artists are aiding in the construction of a new monastery and temple community called Zangdokpalri, named after the changeless visionary abode of the Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) who subdued demonic forces and established the practice of Buddhism in Tibet in the 9th century.
According to the ancient Buddhist tradition, Guru Rinpoche promised that he would reappear in the form of tertons (revealers of dharma treasures) to revitalize Buddhism for the benefit of all beings. Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche is considered such a terton.
After seven years of solitary retreat, instructions to construct a new monastery and temple were revealed to Kunzang Dechen Lingpa Rinpoche in a dream, along with an exact vision of the structure’s location and design. Some years later, Rinpoche found the site on a hilltop in Arunachal Pradesh in the Himalayas – one of the poorest, most remote, yet spectacularly beautiful areas in the world.
With his own limited resources, Rinpoche acquired the land and started work, funded almost entirely by his eight years of touring teaching and performing visionary-revealed Healing Cho for over 5,000 Americans. A monastic community of over 170 monks and nuns has since come together under his guidance. It is Rinpoche’s aspiration that this community will become an oasis of Buddhist scholarship, sacred art, meditation and service. A new medical clinic is planned and will have a staff of doctors both western and Tibetan, a social worker to teach hygiene, and a large supply of medicines to distribute to the needy throughout the surrounding impoverished community. In early December, thousands of monks from across the area, including Nepal, Tibet, India, and Bhutan, will come to the mountain to consecrate the temple.
But the temple is being built in one of the most contested areas in the world. China considers it Lower Tibet and the Chinese and Indian military have been amassing troops on the borders. Will the temple, envisioned to bring peace to the world at this tumultuous time be able to bring peace to this ancient land caught in the tension of modern superpowers?