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- What happens when a newly elected President of the US takes office? Is he given an orientation, if you will? Is he possibly coerced or influenced to tone down his ambitious campaign rhetoric or vision for the country by the 'powers that be'? Is 'Hope and Change' muted somewhat by the fact that the executive, legislative and judicial branches of government don't have the mandate our founding fathers intended? These issues confront newly elected President Michael Liebman: a fictional cross between Obama, Paul Wellstone, but with a financial background more akin to Jon Corzine. He has a vision for how to re-make and fix the dysfunction inside the beltway. However, there's a consortium of powerful folks, who even helped get him elected, that have other conflicting ideas. In the peculiar 6 week period between when he's won the election but before he takes actual office, the President elect is making a thank you speech to his donor base in LA, and raising money for the DNC of course. Under the auspices of a National security issue in Pakistan, POTUS is led to a quick briefing on the 'situation'. However, he quickly discovers the two gentlemen awaiting him, both former NSA operatives now in the private sector, representing the aforementioned 'powers that be', have slightly different ideas. Will Liebman's Presidency be hijacked before he even takes office?
- "Ralphie's 'Blue" is the story of a hapless but likable, regular guy named Ralph Monti, a man with two strikes against him. One, he works nights and weekends as an umpire, but he can't seem to get past little league. Two, it takes him a fistful of meds every day just to keep it together. Ralph's game takes a dramatic turn when he meets Chase, the charismatic leader of a "men's group." Chase takes Ralph under his wing, introducing him to his group - The Order - at a weekend retreat in the mountains, where Ralph encounters a committed band of dangerous white nationalists, more accurately, White Supremacists. (Ironic, because Ralph has a black girlfriend but Chase has an "alternative" approach to Ralph's medication, which proves tantalizing to Ralphie.) Chase intends to shape Ralph into a dangerous weapon to be used by The Order as part of their plan of attack. Can Ralph help foil the event before it's too late?
- Steven Callahan is a well respected therapist who has just taken on a new patient named Christian. Christian is an aspiring fashion photographer who suffers from a series of bizarre and violent fantasies. As the fantasizes become more vivid Steven becomes more suspicious. Simultaneously, foul mouth detective Tim Poroski is faced with a series of bizarre disappearances of several male models. As the plot tightens Steven and Christian become involved in a deadly game of cat and mouse that leads to a wildly unpredictable conclusion.
- The son of a legendary film critic, working screenwriter for several action Icons, the catalyst for an Oscar winning actress, uncle to a national hero, friend to legendary Italian filmmakers, and yet unknown outside specific circles. A personal salute to the man who 'raised me' in the film business, my paisan, John Crowther..
- Mike Nelson (Kurt Mattsen)is a young aspiring actor who is introduced by a friend to a mysterious gentleman named Mr. Christian (John Crowther). Mr. Christian explains he has a grant to research ang quantify creativity. What separates an ordinary painter from Picasso, an ordinary scribe from Fitzgerald, etc. and what if one could harness and tap into that creativity?In exchange for Mike's participation he is promised an entree into the theatre world as Mr. christian can call upon his wide array of connections in the art world due to his studies thus far. All Mike has to do is watch and read some videos and essays he's been given and respond with some sort of improvizational monologue. Things begin well enough for Mike as he has been called back on some auditions, however, the materials he has been presented leave a lasting an unwanted impression. He feels he may even be programmed somehow. Even more disturbing is that Mike has reason to believe several of the programs past participants may have gone on murderous shooting sprees. However, because of Mike's confused state of mind it is hard for him to know whether this is just in his head or not. Will Mike be the next victim, and most importantly who is Mr. Christian?While this film comes under the guise of a thriller, it is really a meditative piece on the nature of violence in the U.S. and offers in it's subtext a few possible reasons why.
- Rise from the Opioid Ashes is the 5th film in the MAGA Film chronicles from filmmaker Joseph F. Alexandre. It explores the devastation wrought by the opioid crises from a personal perspective in the form of Davis Bartels, whose brother Dylan died of an overdose, and overcame his own crippling addiction to become one of the most successful real estate salesmen in Ventura County, CA. Through interviews with family and friends, as well as experts on the pharmaceutical Industries' culpability in the crisis that just took the lives of over 100K US citizens. Rise... will be able to put a fresh perspective on this crisis in the context of this crisis in the MAGA phenomenon as many of the Midwest battle ground states were hit the hardest by the epidemic.
