
Inspiring immigrant stories from those who have come to the U.S. from other nations and excelled.

Inspiring immigrant stories from those who have come to the U.S. from other nations and excelled.

Risk management analyst Ann Keller’s world is full of facts and figures. Just as she hopes to add some creativity back into her life, her father Tom has a minor accident and Ann winds up back in her hometown of Franklin Heights, a place she left years before in pursuit of a career in the big city. During her stay, Ann discovers that Tom has secretly become a competiti…

“Pawparazzi Snap!”, a gossip show hosted by Sydney Flow and his dog sidekick Nancy O’Dogg, is the hottest celebrity gossip show on television. So what better place for London Bridges, a fast rising Hollywood starlet, to announce her next project “There Will Be Oil”, an independent art film by acclaimed director Hugh Franklin and co-starring Dame Ruby Bench. With her pampered pomeranian Latte in tow, London arrives on location to see that she won’t be receiving the star treatment she is used to. Not only will the film be shot on a farm in a secluded rural area, but London’s accommodations will be on location as well. But when two thieves posing as Paparazzi show up to steal the prized “Academy Necklace” , a prized piece of Hollywood memorabilia that is bestowed about whomever is the current “it girl”, London learns that her knight in shining armor is Tom, the simple farmer who is hosting her stay on the farm.

A world-weary detective is hired to investigate the murder of a West Point cadet. Stymied by the cadets’ code of silence, he enlists one of their own to help unravel the case – a young man the world would come to know as Edgar Allan Poe.

Susumu Nokoshi once worked for a top foreign financial company. He is now a 34-year-old homeless man, usually found around a park in Shinjuku. He then meets medical school student Manabu Ito, who is looking for volunteers to undergo a surgical procedure known as trepanation. The surgery involves drilling a hole in the skull. Susumu is not interested in having the surgery, but he agrees to have the procedure for 700,000 yen. After the operation, when Susumu closes his right eye and sees someone with his left eye, he sees people having a distorted appearance. Manabu tells him that the distorted appearance is a form of visualization from deep within the mind. Susumu communicates with people, who possess a dark side in their subconscious mind.

Two blue collar workers form an unlikely partnership of selling illegal prescription pills to make ends meet while trying to avoid disastrous mishaps.

Coming of age tale SEX, PARTY AND LIES follows the lives of eight friends who are searching for happiness in all the wrong places. The film depicts a group of youths living ‘la vida loca’ in the sweaty bars and clubs of Alicante, as they try to numb whatever pain they might be feeling with sex, drugs, alcohol, and more sex. Their devil-may-care attitudes and wild behaviour gets them into all sorts of compromising situations from which they struggle to recover. Ultimately, the hardcore partying lifestyle takes its toll on the youths, who are left feeling lonely and dejected. Each of them gradually wakes up to the fact that there’s no such thing as a life without consequence, and are left to pick up the shattered remnants of their lives… and what’s left of their dignity.

This horror/paranormal thriller follows the lives of Albert and Rose Poe over the course of 4 days that happens to include the one year anniversary of their 5 and 6 year old daughters deaths. The day the girls died was their birthdays too. We soon learn there is more to the girls deaths and the house the Poe’s thought was their safe haven.

Frozen River is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the U.S.-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray’s Dodge Spirit.

Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice. When Jules starts his night shift at a safety helpline for lonely women on their way home Klara’s call reaches him.

SHEPHERDS AND BUTCHERS follows a jaded lawyer, John Weber (Steve Coogan), who takes on a seemingly hopeless multiple murder case and uncovers scandalous shortcomings in South Africa’s capital punishment system as he mounts a defense for a prison guard traumatized by the executions he took part in.

When groom-to-be Ben’s wild ex-girlfriend Jules bursts in to declare her love for him on the eve of his wedding to Lisa, Ben is suddenly faced with a decision he didn’t realize he had to make. But that’s the problem: he has to decide.