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FINAL is the story of Bill Tyler (Denis Leary), a man who mysteriously wakes up a patient in a Connecticut state psychiatric facility. Unable to remember how he got there, Bill seems sure of only one thing: that he has been cryogenically frozen and revived 400 years in the future. Ann Johnson (Hope Davis) is the dedicated therapist assigned to help Bill piece together those events which led to his incarceration, and reestablish his link with the real world. As they work together to understand the shambles of his past, Bill and Ann find themselves inappropriately drawn toward one another, an attraction that will ultimately threaten both the therapist's work and her patient's life.

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CHELSEA WALLS

Based on the play "Chelsea Walls" by Nicole Burdette, the film follows the contemporary residents of New York's famed Chelsea Hotel, capturing a mosaic of dreamers and artists. The film was shot in three weeks on location at the famed hotel and was produced by Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler of Killer Films.

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WOMEN IN FILM

WOMEN IN FILM stars Beverly D'Angelo, Portia De Rossi, and Marianne Jean-Baptiste as women of the film industry who are desperately searching for their place in Hollywood. Phyllis (D'Angelo) is an independent producer who is having difficulty getting her latest project together; Sara (Jean-Baptiste) is a casting director who is taking time out to care for her blind newborn baby; and Gina (De Rossi) is a masseuse who claims to have had every idea she's ever invented stolen by those around her. WOMEN IN FILM is both a satire of the film industry and a celebration of women, produced by Christine Vachon and Pam Koffler of Killer Films.

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TAPE

In TAPE, Vin (Ethan Hawke), travels back home to Lansing for a film festival and meets up with an old friend Jon (Robert Sean Leonard). Vin is still bitter about Jon stealing his high school girlfriend Amy (Uma Thurman) and can't forget his greatest betrayal--Jon may have raped Amy. Jon and Vin play a tug-of-war of words all night in an old hotel room, all of which Vin captures on tape. Just as the situation reaches a frenzied pitch, Amy arrives to recount her side of the story. The film was produced by Anne Walker and Detour Film production.

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TEN TINY LOVE STORIES

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TEN TINY LOVE STORIES (from the director of "Things You Can Tell Just By Looking At Her"), is a series of monologues where ten women talk about the man they remember most--the man who last loved them, the man who left them, the man who wasn't enough, the man who was too cruel, the man who is only a distant memory, the man who passed away, the man they married, and the man they sent away. The film presents an honest portrait of women, where memories are the only connection to the men that touched their lives. This film is the first InDigEnt feature to be shot with the Panavision 24p HD camera.

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TADPOLE

Oscar Grubman (Aaron Standford) is a very precocious young man. Although he comes from a family of academics (his father is a history professor at Columbia), that doesn't really explain his passion for Voltaire. And he notices things most high school sophomores never really see, like women's hands. More than that, he can order in French and converse intelligently, certainly a rarity among teenagers. But he does share one thing with other 15-year-olds: he's in love.

For the Thanksgiving holiday, Oscar comes home from Chancy Academy with a plan--he's going to pursue the love of his life. He will follow the passionate advice of his sage Voltaire and win the heart of his beloved. Oh, there is one difference from most boys his age--his beloved is quite a bit older than he. And that's not the least of it. Also starring Signourney Weaver, John Ritter, and Bebe Neuworth.

TADPOLE was shot with three Sony PAL PD-150's. The cameras were set to 4:3 aspect ratio and kept in interlaced scan mode. The film was editted in PAL on a Macintosh G4 powered Final Cut Pro system at The Edit Center in New York.

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PERSONAL VELOCITY

Written and directed by Rebecca Miller, PERSONAL VELOCITY is based on Miller's book of short stories and tells the tales of three women's escapes from their afflicted lives. Segmented into three parts, Greta (Parker Posey), Delia (Kyra Sedgwick) and Paula (Fairuza Balk) have one thing in common, each struggle to flee from the men who confine their personal freedom. As each story begins to unfold, the film follows their tangled webs of tragic circumstance that ultimately force them into an awakening of their inner selves and an emergence on their own life's path.

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KILL THE POOR

When a marriage of convenience becomes the real thing, Joe (David Krumholtz) moves his pregnant French wife (Clara Bellar) to a tenement building on New York’s Lower East Side. The street is like a war zone with none of the nostalgic appeal that Joe remembers from tales of his immigrant grandparents arriving in the same neighborhood with a new life. This is the urban frontier filled with a wildly funny mixture of gentrifies, homeboys, dealers and local residents simply bent on staying a float.

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PIECES OF APRIL

"Pieces of April" marks the directorial debut of writer Peter Hedges, novelist and screenwriter of "What's Eating Gilbert Grape."

April Burns (Katie Holmes) is a 21-year-old wild child with a very big problem. Against her better judgment, she's invited her straightlaced family for Thanksgiving dinner. Her boyfriend, Bobby, wants to help, but she banishes him from the apartment while she attempts to cook the meal. To make matters worse, she then discovers that her oven doesn't work. So, while April is forced to ask her eccentric neighbors for help in cooking her fifteen pound turkey, the Burns Family begins a reluctant journey from suburban Pennsylvania toward New York City's Lower East Side. April's Dad, Jim Burns (Oliver Platt) tries to convince the family that the day will be beautiful. Her mom, Joy (Patricia Clarkson) has her doubts and freely voices them. April's teenage sister and brother are squeezed between Grandma Dottie and a bag of snacks in the back seat as the Burns' family car hurtles toward Manhattan and what will most likely be certain disaster.

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NOVEMBER

Los Angeles photographer Sophie Jacobs (Cox) has trouble coping after her boyfriend is tragically shot to death in a convenience store robbery. As she struggles to put the event behind her, Sophie's life begins to splinter, as the line between fantasy and reality becomes alarmingly blurred.

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PIZZA

An offbeat comedy about the unexpected relationship that develops between a
thirtysomething pizza deliveryman (Ethan Embry) and an 18-year-old high school gir
 
Shot in Milford, PA on  three Panasonic DVX-100 NTSC (24P) cameras

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LAND OF PLENTY

Shot on two Panasonic DVX-100 PAL (25P) Cameras

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LONESOME JIM

This story follows the return of 28-year-old Jim to his hometown in Indiana, where he is forced, after failing to make it on his own, to move back in with his parents and deal with crippling family obligations. Casey Affleck plays Jim and Liv Tyler plays a woman Jim meets in a local bar, whose young son begins treating him like a father.

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SORRY,HATERS

SORRY,HATERS is a psychological thriller with political and social undertones set in today's New York. It's a story of anger, revenge and retribution so timely it could be too true for comfort. It begins when Ashade, a Muslim cab driver (Abdellatif Kechiche), picks up Phoebe (Robin
Wright Penn) a well-heeled professional woman. Although Ashade and Phoebe have nothing in common, each holds troubling urges and motivations. When Phoebe takes an interest in exonerating Ashade's unjustly jailed brother, a series of events are set in motion resulting in the revelation of a devastating hidden truth. SORRY,HATERS is that rare film that dares to capture the anxiety of a city on edge. With powerful performances by Robin Wright Penn, Abdellatif Kechiche, Sandra Oh and Josh Hamilton it has the courage to ask the most forbidden questions of who we are, and suggest some surprising answers.

SORRY,HATERS is an InDigEnt Production written and directed by Jeff Stanzler.

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FLAKES

FLAKES centers on the mercurial relationship of aspiring rock musician Neal Downs (Stanford), who manages the cereal bar, and Miss Pussy Katz (Deschanel), creator of radically-themed art clothing that she tries, in vain, to sell to French Quarter tourists. The main character, however, is the cereal shop itself, where Neal holds court to an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios. But then an aspiring young capitalist rips off the store's concept and, when Miss P. gets involved, suddenly everything is at stake--Flakes, love, and the very survival of righteous breakfast food veneration.

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PUCCINI FOR BEGINNERS

Allegra loves Samantha. But she won't say so. Grace loves Philip but he won't marry her. Samantha leaves Allegra. Allegra meets Philip. Philip leaves Grace. Allegra falls for Philip. Allegra meets Grace. Grace falls for Allegra. Allegra falls for Grace. Allegra sees Philip and Grace simultaneously and has no idea they're exes. A story about chance encounters, psychoanalytic excuses and one woman's struggle to make a commitment, "Puccini for Beginners" is a sophisticated screwball sex comedy.

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