Case Study: Bella

TITLE: Bella
SYNOPSIS: An international soccer star is on his way to sign a multi-million dollar contract when something happens that brings his career to an abrupt end. A waitress, struggling to make it in New York City, discovers something about herself that she’s unprepared for. In one irreversible moment, their lives [...]

Case Study: Waitress

TITLE: Waitress
SYNOPSIS: Jenna is a small-town waitress at Joe’s Diner, who has a great knack at making delicious pies there. However, Jenna is in an unhappy marriage to her controlling and immature husband, Earl, who always takes the money she works hard for, but Jenna keeps some of it hidden from him. [...]

Case Study: Junebug

TITLE: Junebug
SYNOPSIS: A dealer in outsider art threatens the equilibrium of her middle-class in-laws in North Carolina. Madeline is a go-getting art gallery owner from Chicago, recently married to George, a near-perfect Southern beau. When Madeline needs to close a deal with a reclusive North Carolina artist, George introduces her to [...]

Case Study: Cashback

TITLE: Cashback
SYNOPSIS: After breaking up with his girlfriend, aspiring artist Ben Willis (Sean Biggerstaff) develops insomnia and takes a night-shift job at a supermarket to pass the hours. He soon discovers that he can freeze time and begins fantasizing about pretty checkout clerk Sharon (Emilia Fox). When he’s not dreaming of Sharon — who may [...]

Case Study: Garden State

TITLE: Garden State
SYNOPSIS: Having just weaned himself off antidepressants, Andrew Largeman (Zach Braff, who also directs) returns to his New Jersey hometown after a decade away to attend his mother’s funeral and slowly begins to see his life in a new light. In the process, he confronts his psychologist father (Ian Holm) and forges a [...]

Case Study: Better Luck Tomorrow

TITLE: Better Luck Tomorrow
SYNOPSIS: Discontent with his lifestyle of straight A’s and upper-middle-class monotony, overachieving Asian-American high school student Ben Manibag (Parry Shen) seeks a life of excitement and danger. He finds it with help from a suburban gang of other misguided youths. Soon, Ben is caught up in a disturbing downward spiral of sex, [...]

Case Study: Quiet City

TITLE: Quiet City
DESCRIPTION: Jamie (Erin Fisher) arrives in New York City looking for a friend, who isn’t answering her cell phone. Missing her stop on the subway, she asks Charlie (Cris Lankenau) for directions. Unable to articulate them properly, he escorts her to a diner where she is supposed to meet her friend but the [...]

Case Study: Me and You and Everyone We Know

TITLE: Me and You and Everyone We Know
DESCRIPTION: A lonely shoe salesman and an eccentric performance artist struggle to connect in this unique take on contemporary life.
DIRECTOR: Miranda July
GENRE: Drama, Comedy
BUDGET: $2,000.00
FESTIVAL PREMIERED AT: Sundance Film Festival
FESTIVAL PLAY:

Sundance Film Festival
Stockholm Film Festival
Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
San Francisco International Film Festival
Philadelphia Film Festival
Newport International Film [...]

Case Study: Vicky Cristina Barcelona

TITLE: Vicky Cristina Barcelona
DESCRIPTION: Life is the ultimate work of art  Two American women, Vicky and Cristina, spending a summer in Barcelona, where they meet an artist who is attracted to both of them while still enamored of his mentally and emotionally unstable ex-wife María Elena.
DIRECTOR: Woody Allen
GENRE: Drama/Romance
BUDGET: $ 15,000,000
FESTIVAL PREMIERED AT: 2008 Cannes [...]

CASE STUDY: I SELL THE DEAD

I SELL THE DEAD
Director Glenn McQuaid
Production Budget Low
Genre Horror/Comedy
Plot
18th century justice catches up with a pair of grave robbers. With only a few hours to go before his date with the guillotine, Arthur Blake (Monaghan) tells his life story to Father Francis Duffy (Ron Perlman). Before long, Arthur spills the beans on how he got [...]