The cast and crew of an adult film production company find themselves stuck in a run-down hotel on the countryside. It isn't long before they discover that one-by-one they begin to disappear, and spending the night quickly takes a back seat to surviving.
DIRECTOR: TBA PRODUCER: Ali Mashayekhi FEATURING: TBA FORMAT: HDV
A QUIET DEATH
Set in a world where future meets the past, a world where every ordinary person is born with an extraordinary talent, A Quiet Death delves into the mind of one solitary man, his talent: CST (Chronic Sound Transmission). One morning, he unsuspectedly hears his neighbour in distress. As he hesitantly creeps through her apartment, always hearing before seeing, he witnesses her death at the hands of a police detective. With a vital clue in hand, he becomes the next target, using his ears to weave himself through an entire police force; a police force with only one objective in mind: to find Stanley Urchin.
DIRECTOR: Ken George & Jacob Michael Hanania PRODUCER: Ali Mashayekhi FEATURING: TBA FORMAT: HDV
Projects wrapped in 2007
DEAD ORIGINS
A failed scientist abducts five drifters, mentally conditions them according to his own ideals, and passes them off as clones to the science community. Confined within the walls of an Orwellian type setting, the drifters slowly begin to remember. Memories of their pasts seep into their present lives and raise questions of identity, plaguing their minds and co-existence with one another. The clash between authentic identities and constructed identities is one that leaves the drifters and scientist in peril.
DIRECTOR: Junga Song PRODUCER: Ali Mashayekhi FEATURING: Rogue Johnston, Skye Collyer FORMAT: Super 16mm SCREENED AT: New York Film and Video Festival, 2008
MONEY COMES FIRST
Hamid, a recently immigrated and very successful businessman, gets caught up in a chase to save his secretary, Natalie, from her abusive boyfriend who learns of their affair. It soon becomes apparent to all three parties that there is a price for everything, but how much is Hamid willing to sacrifice to save Natalie's life?
DIRECTOR: Jacob Michael Hanania PRODUCER: Nabil Badine and Hanieh Kosh FEATURING: Roozbeh Termei, Adam Risbridger, Penelope Williams FORMAT: Super 16mm SCREENED AT: New York Film and Video Festival, 2008
REFLECTION
When a music store employee and a master pianist share a moment through the store window, the dark secrets of the pianist's life are revealed.
DIRECTOR: Junga Song PRODUCER: Ali Mashayekhi FEATURING: Rogue Johnston, Penelope Williams FORMAT: 35mm
SCREENED AT: Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, 2008
Projects wrapped in 2006
THE PRETENDER
After months of enduring the sneaking suspicion that his girlfriend, Maggie, is being unfaithful to him, the Pretender's suspicion begins to materialize when he secretly indulges his olfactory senses with a mysterious mango scented thong that belongs to her. The Pretender deals with his problem by shifting in and out of reality, trying to merge the ordinary events of an average Friday with the extraordinary events of his Hollywood-style imagination.
DIRECTOR: Andrew Cymek PRODUCER: Ali Mashayekhi FEATURING: Victor Chiu, Brigitte Kingsley, Penelope Williams, Jessi Cruickshank FORMAT: Super 16mm SCREENED AT: Los Angeles Film and Video Festival, 2005
New York Film and Video Festivall, 2005
Projects wrapped in 2004
LOVE RECIPE
Challenging traditional Korean customs and typical stereotypes, a young man embarks on a seemingly effortless task, cooking for his wife. However, as this is his first journey into the culinary realm, he stumbles from beginning to end with hilarious and romantic consequences.
DIRECTOR: Junga Song PRODUCER: Debbie Kwan FEATURING: Victor Chiu, Jenny Whang FORMAT: Super 16mm
SCREENED AT: Canadian International Annual Film Festival, 2005.
