A truly unique and visually stunning take on meta-fiction, LOVELY BY SURPRISE follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel.

Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the book’s protagonist unleashes chaos in her life as a willful protagonist escapes from her novel and appears in the unresolved corners of her past.

Featuring Carrie Preston (Duplicity, Doubt, Vicky Cristina Barcelona), Dallas Roberts (Tell Tale, Shrink, 3:10 to Yuma), Austin Pendleton (Christmas with the Kranks, Uptown Girls, A Beautiful Mind) and Kate Burton (Max Payne, What Just Happened, SherryBaby).

At turns funny, lyrical, dark and mysterious, this enigmatic film explores past and present, art and reality, life and death, ultimately revealing the strength and beauty of the human heart.

WINNER: Speacial Jury Price – Seattle International Film Festival

WINNER: New Filmmakers Forum Award – St. Louis International Film Festival

WINNER: Audience Award – Indie Memphis Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Edinburgh International Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Florida Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Philadelphia Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: USA Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Newport Beach Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Jackson Hole Film Festival

From writer/director Frank Sabatella comes BLOOD NIGHT: THE LEGEND OF MARY HATCHET, a blood drenched slasher film starring Nate Dushku (The Alphabet Killer, The Zodiac), Bill Moseley (Halloween, Grindhouse, The Devil’s Rejects, The Alphabet Killer), Danielle Harris (Halloween I & II, Super Capers, Hatchet 2) and Samantha Facchi as Mary Hatchet. Audiences are in for a non-stop splatter fest filled with sex, guts, and heads that roll! Blood Night puts a neckbreaking spin on the gory and gut-wrenching “slasher” pieces from the legendary decade of 1980’s horror!

Long Island, 1978: A young girl named Mary Mattock gruesomely murders her family with a hatchet and is locked away for life in Long Island’s notorious Kings Park Psychiatric Center. Ten years later, Mary escapes from the asylum, leaving a grizzly trail of bodies and blood in her wake. Gunned down by the police, Mary meets her own demise outside the sanitarium walls. This incident gave birth to the legend of Mary Hatchet’s walking ghost and the mischievous night named in honor of her death, BLOOD NIGHT!

Stemming from the real life Long Island legend of Mary Hatchet, Blood Night: The Legend of Mary Hatchet tells the tale of a group of teenagers enjoying their annual Blood Night festivities, when they come face to face with the reality of this haunting legend. One by one, the teens begin to disappear and meet their fate. As the body count rises, so do the unanswered questions about their missing friends and the secrets of Mary’s horrifying past. Is there more to this legend than the vengeful ghost of Mary Hatchet? And if so, who will survive to tell the terrifying tale?

WINNER: Best Feature – Shocker Fest International

WINNER: Best Supporting Actor – South African Horror Fest

OFFICIAL SELECTION: South African Horror Fest

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sainte Maxime International Horror Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Freakshow Horror Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Sacramento Horror Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: Eearie Horror Film Festival

OFFICIAL SELECTION: New York City Horror Film Festival

Evil is resurrected in a small town threatening to destroy mankind and the only force that can stop it is a young man wielding a powerful sword.

Jacob (Jordan Matthews), a young man armed with a deadly sword, saves Sarah (Hallee Hirsh), a teenage girl, from Mathias (Brad Dourif), a malevolent evil that has begun plaguing a small farmland town while in search of an ancient necklace that had belonged to Sarah’s Uncle (Thomas Ian Nicholas).

Jacob sets out to get Sarah home safely, running through streets, fields, churches and underground tunnels, while being pursued by hordes of demonic creatures. Along the way, both come to terms with the demons within themselves – Sarah begins to understand her hatred towards her mother (Elaine Hendrix) and sister (Mackenzie Rosman) may be unjustified and Jacob discovers the secrets of his past, realizing the only way to truly defeat the demons is to return to the very place his family was murdered.

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Two-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte (Hulk, The Thin Red Line, Cape Fear) will play the role of Hertzog, the film’s antagonist; Academy Award winner Kim Basinger (8 Mile, L.A. Confidential, Batman) will play South African child welfare officer Mrs Whitworth; American actor Kevin Hart (Soul Plane) will play the lead role of Precious McKenzie; British actor John Rhys-Davies (The Lord of the Rings) will play English coach Wally Holland; South African actor Arnold Vosloo (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Blood Diamond, The Mummy) will play the support role of Kevin Stent; 2009 Oscar nominee Viola Davis (Law Abiding Citizen, Doubt) will play Precious’ mother Christina McKenzie; American actress-singer Tatyana Ali (Kiss the Girls) will play Precious’ wife Elizabeth McKenzie.

This inspiring drama, which is set predominantly in South Africa during the tumultuous apartheid era, focuses on the struggle for freedom within one of the most oppressive regimes since Nazi Germany.

The Precious One is the ultimate underdog story and a testimony to one man’s indomitable spirit. No matter how bad things get – extreme poverty, violence, racial hatred – Precious McKenzie remains unbreakable.

The Precious One has the potential to be a mainstream crowd-pleaser in the vein of other successful films which dramatise an individual’s triumph over adversity. Movies such as The Pursuit of Happyness, Men of Honor, Slumdog Millionaire and The Blind Side.

The colorful, larger-than-life lead character makes this motion picture totally unique. The story also gains originality from its political setting. Precious McKenzie’s struggle encompasses both the personal and the political, giving it much greater resonance.

After discovering her father was the deadliest serial killer of all time, Evelyn makes the decision to track down every psycho she can get her hands on. But these are no ordinary killers, they have supernatural advantages to them – something she must learn to adapt to. She also must learn as to why they are gathering in this city and what their evil intentions are while having to reconcile with her own past.

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Stephanus (Brad Dourif) is a former alchemist from the 14th century now living in modern times. He is forced to confront his past when he rescues a teenage boy named Aaron,from the clutches of Armand. A former apprentice Stephanus, Armand turned against him; blaming him for the death of his lover in ‘The Blacklands’, another dimension where magic still exists.

Stephanus soon realizes that Aaron is marked for death, as because possesses the ability to see the true appearance of those from The Blacklands world that have entered into ours.

Stephanus learns all too quickly that the only hope for Aaron’s survival is to teach him the ancient arts that he has long since abandoned, having failed in his teaching of Armand. But halfway through the training, Aaron is kidnapped and taken back into The Blacklands.

Armed with a crossbow and dagger with a special metal that changes into a sword, Stephanus must once again return to “The Blacklands” for one final battle with those he turned his back on before; enlisting the help of others he had previously abandoned, in order to save the desolate world from certain destruction.

Directed by award-winning director John P. Aguirre, LUCKY STROKE an underdog story comedy that follows the journey of twenty-three year old Rob Connolly and his close friend, wannabe MMA fighting champion Chris Russo.

The story begins as Rob suffers yet another loss at the horse track and is cornered by a mobbed-up, scalpel-happy dentist who’s also a second rate loan shark. Rob, skips town and returns to his hometown to find his childhood hangout – his father’s family friendly miniature golf course – in shambles and about to go out of business.

Rob, in desperate need of money to keep his limbs intact and save his father’s course, enters the Mini-Golf World Championships – a tournament he came within a shot of winning five years prior. Problems occur for Rob when his faithful coach falls ill and Rob is forced to go the Championships alone against his old cheating nemesis, Chad Smith.

With everything on the line, Rob digs deep, beats back his inner-demons, and gets “lucky” along the way…

Jerry (Jamie Draven) is a Marine reservist who was a young patriot and idealist when he served in the first Gulf War. But when he is called up for deployment to Afghanistan and Iraq, Jerry is a father of three; older and embittered by a life besieged by broken promises, and unfulfilled desires.

Jerry returns a changed man, transformed by horrors committed that go beyond comprehension and sanity, pain inflicted that cannot be forgiven. He lives a life of poverty, his children afraid of his unexplained outbursts of rage, his wife, Nora (Vinessa Shaw), unsympathetic to the nosebleeds and night terrors he suffers. She hides money her sons earn from their paper route in case they need to leave. Their crowded trailer home becomes a prison. His failure as a man, his actions as a soldier, is the punishment which they share. He realizes that the respect and dignity he has spent his life trying to achieve will always elude him.

When Jerry discovers that Nora has betrayed him, his anger and despair drive him to commit an act so heinous and irreversible that nothing he has experienced in combat could have prepared him for.

“Badland” is a gut-wrenching, poignant look at the aftermath of war on a returning Iraq war veteran and his family. It is the story of a man who loses his soul and how a daughter’s love and faith brings redemption to his unspeakable crimes.

“Strikes like a bolt of lightning out of nowhere … deeply personal and completely compelling. Writer-director Francesco Lucente pulls no punches … The portrayals of Jamie Draven and 9-year-old Grace Fulton can stand alongside the year’s best.”

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

“A War Hero’s Terror, Tragedy and Rescue”

Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times

“‘Badland’ succeeds where rest of bandwagon has failed”

Justin Spees, NYU News

“‘Badland’ gives a glimpse into the life after the war”

Melissa Mills, CSUN Daily Sundial

“War Ravages the Soul”

Megha Pakhiddey, The Knight News

“The most intense I’ve seen since FULL METAL JACKET”

Hits Magazine via Taxi Transmitter

“‘Badland’ is like a post 9/11 Best Years Of Our Lives.”

Eric Monder, Film Journal International

“It is a strong, absorbing, impressive, involving work … Grace Fulton is a marvel as Celina.”

William Wolf, WolfEntertainmentGuide.com

“Badland is a haunting film about the tragic repercussions of the Iraq War. Strong performances and eloquent cinematography enhance the story.”

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Life

“An engrossing film… UK Actor Jamie Draven evokes memories of the classic performance of Robert Mitchum in “Night of the Hunter.” Grace Fulton is marvelous.”

Stuart Lee, WNYX-TV

Bruce Springsteen’s song “DEVILS & DUST” poetically resonates with “JERRY’S” heart wrenching journey in Badland.

Badland was inspired by America’s headlong plunge into the Iraq war. In the weeks and months that followed, it was painfully evident that this was going to be very different from the Gulf War. As soon as troops started coming home, stories began emerging of isolated incidents of domestic violence. The first cluster of murders and murder-suicides happened at Fort Bragg, N.C. and there was speculation that those involved were suffering with Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).