The First Shot

The Winter People In a tiny summer community on Cape Cod the houses sit boarded up and vacant for eight months of the year. Or do they?

30/30 Vision: Three Deca... Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company’s indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on iPhones.

Good Night Valentino Dramatization of an H.L. Mencken story. Rudolph Valentino comes to Menckin's hotel room to seek advice about how to deal with a newspaper editorial that claims Valentino's screen career has emasculated the American male.

Space Off For ten days, Earth has been without contact with the Centaurus, a spacecraft orbiting Mars with a crew of four. Newscaster Jane O'nion announces that re-contact should be established soon. First, the news report reviews the way Mars' surface will be penetrated, profiles the four crew members, and interviews the NASA flight manager. Jane's questions cast things in dire ways, a style she continues when contact is reestablished. Jane interrupts the excited report of the flight commander regarding their recent discoveries, to ask how everyone feels. Then, when a problem arises, Jane's intrusions threaten the flight's safety. Is there any justice?

The Beatles: 50th Annive... John, Paul, George and Ringo… The Fab Four from Liverpool who became one of the most commercially successful & critically acclaimed acts in the history of popular music. This special commemorative box set, celebrating 50 years of the Beatles includes: The Beatles Liverpool, The Beatles Hamburg & The Hamburg Sound, The Beatles Merseyside, The Beatles London, John Lennon's New York.

And the Red Man Went Gre... An old woman negotiates the hectic streets of London fearful of being knocked over. At a pedestrian crossing her worst fears are realised as she collides with a rollerblader.

Last Year at Marienbad A... Film critic James Quandt looks at Alain Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad in 26 different ways, each corresponding to a letter in the alphabet

Family Tree Dysfunctional in-laws on Thanksgiving are one thing, but a long-lost brother-in-law who sprouts leaves when he gets wet is a whole other can of cranberries.

Here Was The Anthem Two teenagers buy marijuana, and fall into a world of violence and corruption they didn't think existed.

Johnny Rivers: The Histo... Johnny Rivers is an odd figure in the history of rock music. At the most obvious level, he was a 1960s rock star and a real rarity as a singer/guitarist who made a name for himself as a straight-ahead & roller rock during the middle of the white American decade. Just as important, behind the scenes, their recordings and their success led to the direct and indirect release of at least three record labels and a dozen other careers, whose influence extended into the 1970s, 1980s and beyond. Rivers was very much a soul mate to figures like Buddy Holly and Ronnie Hawkins, with all the verve and spirit of the members of this first wave of rock & roll. He had the misfortune of being born a little too late to catch that wave, however, and it took until the middle of the next decade to find his target audience.