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Realizing that the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.

Documentary on the Friedmans, a seemingly typical, upper-middle-class Jewish family whose world is instantly transformed when the father and his youngest son are arrested and charged with shocking and horrible crimes.

A typical weekend down the shore takes a bizarre turn as six girls and five obnoxious fist-pumpers become the unsuspecting targets of a deranged killer.

Maya, an Iowa woman aspiring to be a dancer, meets Elsa. They decide to run away to Rapid City for a dance contest. On their journey through the Badlands, reality catches up with them, altering their plans.

Storyteller and Conceptual Magician Derek DelGaudio attempts to understand the illusory nature of identity and answer the deceptively simple question 'Who am I?'

14-year-old Laura Dekker sets out on a two-year voyage in pursuit of her dream to become the youngest person ever to sail around the world alone.

A man who has avoided his wife and child at home has a change of heart after an imposed stay in his own parents' loft.

Terry Malone is smart, beautiful, and about to marry a terrific guy. But life in her dysfunctional family - marred by alcoholism, mental illness, and suicide - has left her unprepared to build the happy life she yearns for.

Telephone repairmen plan to get insider stock info by tapping a client's line. The plan quickly goes south when they overhear a murder plot.

World War II story alternates between the past and present, linked by a fateful song. Japanese sub I-77 battles an American destroyer off the coast of Okinawa. Before heading to war, the captain received a final present from his lover, the score to a song titled Manatsu no Orion. 64 years later, his granddaughter discovers the score and the significance behind the song.

A weekend in a summer house, where six late twenties friends have reunited. A series of life crises force them to confront their relationships and lives, leading them to discover what it really means to grow up.

The true story of a suburban teenager whose one mistake leads to a life changing punishment. Peter Madigan, a 15-year-old from the suburbs commits a senseless act, causing a commuter train to derail killing the engineer.

The story of three young boxers and their coach who is determined to guide them in a positive direction in and out of the ring.

For over 70 years, founder Ruth Finley and the game-changing Fashion Calendar scheduled every fashion event in New York City. At 95, Ruth sold the calendar, ending an era.

In this fantastical film, a young girl conjures its story from the lines of a chalk circle. Once upon a time, in 1915, a German saboteur arrived to Manhattan to interrupt the export of American munitions to Britain. He soon found a collaborator in a wayward stevedore who unwittingly led him to a group of labor anarchists. Sabotage soon turned these bedfellows into agents of the other's tragic end. How America entered World War 1 playfully plays out through archival images and the theatrical rendition of lives as they might have been lived.

When an underground radio DJ makes fun of a fading pop star who happens to listen to his show, the two begin an unlikely relationship. But difficult life and career crossroads jeopardize their idyllic New York romance.

Bartender Ronnie has gone from one job to another a lot over the years, and he wants to settle at a place that he can call his own. So Ronnie teams up with his friend Dave, and together they raise the money to buy a popular bar

Once upon a time 'a woman searches for her Prince Charming'. The search for this Prince Charming leads a New York City girl back to the pen-pal of her youth where she finds that seeing is not believing. Elizabeth and her brother moved away from the country and their pals at the age of ten, to the hustle and bustle of New York City and left behind are the two Henrys. Henry Sr. named after his grandfather, Henry the First and his younger brother Henry Jr. was named after their father, Henry the Second. The same in name only with Henry Sr., the shy, artistic believer in true love and Jr. outgoing, athletic and happy in the pursuit of fast cars and loose women. Sr. having always loved Elizabeth writes to her and they become pen pals for the next 15 years. Elizabeth unsatisfied with her life and perhaps in love with the man behind the letters decides that Henry is her soul mate and returns to the country to tell him so against the wishes of her family and friends. Arriving in the country does not deliver the castle and the prince. The Henrys still live on the farm with their abusive, dying mother and Elizabeth doesn't even remember that there were ever two Henrys. She mistakenly identifies Jr. as her dreamy pen pal, which certainly fits into the Cinderella story she clings to. Sr. is too shy to speak up and feels he must forever hold his peace, while Elizabeth must learn that true love is more than skin deep.

Documentary about contemporary art powerhouse gallerist Marian Goodman and the evolution of her namesake gallery through the evolution of her unique stable of artists.

About territory, power and trespassing the boundaries of the heart. Two old friends have a tough reunion. A victim of rape, finally leaves home. A thief is on the prowl. Their lives collide at the Crooked Corner. A night no one will forget.

Three men hide out in a dark basement after committing a burglary. They have conflicting personalities: a stoner, an alpha male and a Napoleon complex. They are bickering over the mistakes made during the botched robbery when suddenly they realize they are not alone.

Kelvin has risen above the projects in which he lives, his abusive crack-head Mother, and the challenges which come with a disabled sister. His work in a glass blowing factory has him on the right track until he finds his caring big brother dead in the street, sending him literally to the edge.

In a world saturated by media it's hard to know one's owns truth... or so it is for Michael Halley, who suffers a traumatic event in childhood and carries that experience into adulthood and his wildly successful career as a top New York advertising executive. Burying his trauma by turning it into a product. This is a story, or haiku if you will, with little dialogue, told through images, photographs and sound, evoking a memory or dream.

It is a simple story. One of many. A night in Brooklyn. It is the story of Beaumont, a young man who is in love with his extravagant glasses and bike and who gets angry at all the people that don't respect him. Very angry.

Over the past 12 years, the City of New York's film and television production industry has grown exponentially, along with an exploding and thriving technology sector. The Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment takes a look back to reflect on the initiatives, programs, people and events that have turned "Made in NY" into a local phrase.