L for Leisure is a comedy following a group of graduate students across 10 vacations in 1992 – 3 all around the world as they embark on a series of minor adventures: athletic, chemical, cultural and sexual. With a low-fi 16mm style that recalls 90s television, home videos and underground comic books, L FOR LEISURE is a unique piece of deeply independent filmmaking, reveling in excesses of both lush beauty and awkward humor.
Living in South Beach, Miami and working in a record store, fixing turntables to make a living, Irish born, aspiring DJ Hound Dog (Jon Jacobs) juggles steamy relations with four strong willed, exotic, gay, straight and Bi-sexual women, Tai (Charlotte Lewis), Roxy (Ivelin Giro), Cat (Tina Leiu) and Fysche (Veronica Grey) on his hilarious and misguided mission to spin Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly melodies in the hottest dance clubs in the world. In the vein of Purple Rain, Jailhouse Rock and The Girl Can’t Help It, DJ Hound Dog delivers a techno twist on the classic Rock ‘n Roll, Rags to Riches story. Filmed on location at Club Space, Pacha, Eden and Nikki Beach in Miami and Ibiza, DJ Hound Dog shines with stunning cinematography and an Original Soundtrack that Spawned the international club hit “To the Club” by Spankox featuring the vocals of Co-Star Tina Leiu. Look for surprise Cameos appearances by many of the worlds top international DJ’s including Tiesto, Carl Cox, Robbie Riviera,…
Four crime partners devise a plan to get their hands on 3 millions dollars; when the operation is done, they trust the money to one of them; they disappear for 2 months to meet again and divide the money but when they meet after two months, their friend does not show up.
From the outside, Alexa has the perfect life. Her son is the high school football star, daughter a straight A student and her husband is CFO of a booming start-up company. The sudden death of her father, however, causes Alexa to realize there is more to life than appearances. Her perfectly crafted social image is disrupted when she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. Learning to embrace truth, Alexa rediscovers her faith and what it means to be family.
A young Marine is kidnapped by terrorists in Lebanon. His twin brother, frustrated at his inability to get any kind of information from the government about his brother’s plight, travels to Lebanon with a plan for his own rescue operation.
Noah spends the perfect first night with Avery, the girl of his dreams, but gets relegated to the friend zone. He spends the next three years wondering what went wrong – until he gets the unexpected chance to travel back in time and alter that night – and his fate – over and over again.
A zany, musical road movie about two old friends and a badger who embark on an excessively grand adventure. Starring the musical duo Knutsen & Ludvigsen, world famous in Norway.
Examines the abuse, torture, and murder of detainees at Abu Ghraib prison at the hands of U.S. military police in the fall of 2003 and debunks the “bad apples” theory. The film asks: how can decent young soldiers take these actions, and, what orders came from the chain of command. The filmmaker interviews former detainees, soldiers, and MPs involved in photographed degradation. He references Dr. Stanley Milgrim’s early 60’s experiments. The film also traces memoranda from Secretary Rumsfeld, General Sanchez, and the U.S. Department of Justice allowing various interrogation methods along with a 2003 visit to Abu Ghraib by General Miller, who had been running Guantanimo.
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his rude, crude and slightly demented posse of puppets to Ireland for a gleeful skewering of family and politics.
Early December, New York City, and everyone is talking about something. Their lives. But, no, something more. Love. They are in the hunt for love. Why? Because they haven’t found it and because they haven’t found it, they imagine it. They make it into a myth and chase the myth instead. And that is not love. Meet Frank. Frank’s not young. Meet Reyna. Reyna is young. They become lovers, but Frank winds up back at the fragile altar of his 30-year marriage to Paula. Who’d he pick? Two Irish Construction Workers dig for the answer in the myth of Tristan and Isolde. Do we make our own choices or does Fate do it for us? And in the meantime, all we have is the Chase. The narrator, Joelle, asks-how many lives do you think you get to live-in this recurring conflict between the erotic and the domestic, between myth and mortality, between you and the one you’re still looking for.
A heartbroken man attends a spiritual retreat to cleanse himself and fix his broken life. There he meets a fellow lost soul, and together they discover that “the cleanse” releases more than everyday toxins…a lot more.
