Los Angeles United Film Festival 2009

A documentary that gives us a raw unfiltered look at the power of street art and offers a rare glimpse inside the insane lives of some of the most prolific artists in America today. *Appearances by Morgan Spurlock, Al Sharpton, and Daniel Johnson.

In 1960, Congress held "payola" hearings to target the deejays guilty of breaking down economic and racial barriers. Program director and radio consultants took control. Rock radio became bland and predictable, until a new wave of deejays set up shop on the FM dial. "Top 40 is dead," declared Tom Donahue in San Francisco. "And its rotting corpse is stinking up the airwaves." Bands like the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane ignited a cultural revolution until FM, too, was silenced by FCC intimidation and corporate greed. "Airplay" pays tribute to those unsung heroes of FM, and the promise of a rebirth on satellite radio, told by the deejays and the artists they made rock stars. *Appearances by David Crosby, Grace Slick, and radio personality Casey Casem.

In this stop-motion animation, a fragile character confronts her fears that lie waiting in the silence of the darkness. She empowers the objects surrounding her, allowing them to overwhelm her. A moody and interpretive animated short film. Alice’s Attic made me think with metaphor, and laugh with gallow’s humor.

A modern take on the science fiction invasion films of the 1950’s, “The Apparatus” pits Dr. Allan Noonkester, a once renowned sleep therapist against the ever-coming force of technology, the Lunascape TR.

After truck driver, Roy Tidrow, cuts off a random car on the freeway (Joe O'Neil's,) a complaint is phoned in and Roy is immediately fired, sending him into a violent tailspin. Roy threatens his wife (Valerie,) who works reception at the trucking company, forcing her to supply him with the name of the complainer. Days later...Valerie realizes she's made a horrible mistake. Not only has Roy murdered the man who Valerie identified (Andrew Williams,) but she mistakenly supplied the wrong information and a completely 'innocent' person was killed. When Valerie confronts Roy, he attacks her and gets the correct identity of the complainer (Joe O'Neil.) However, this time Valerie calls to warn the stranger... Joe O'Neill, a straight-laced, nine-to-fiver, is filled with paranoia and fear. He buys a gun to protect himself and is forced into using it when Roy Tidrow attacks him in his home. In a strange twist of fate, it is Roy who is shot and killed. In the end, Valerie, as the sole beneficiary of her husband Roy's life insurance policy, collects a large settlement. Joe O'Neil is questioned by the police and forever scarred. And Andrew Williams' widow, Margaret, receives an envelope of cash, leading us to believe that Valerie may have orchestrated this bizarre collision of lives, whereby no one is a beneficiary.

Small-time hustler, Bobby, scalps an "Adventureland" movie ticket to Martin Starr.

Small-time hustler, Bobby, thinks he's struck gold by scalping movie tickets for "Watchmen."

The Booby Trap is a comedy about two young boys who discover a breast-feeding video and decide to watch it while they're home alone. Trouble arises when Mom comes back and the tape gets stuck in the VCR!

A woman is tormented by Censorship and tries to escape it.