<< Back S T I F F   N I G H T S  F I L M S The Lobster and The Liver The Lobster and the Liver' is a documentary about the Seattle cartoonist Jim Woodring. We chart his journey as a child experiencing terrifying hallucinations, through his troubled youth as a prankster and alcoholic ... more Scrap Scrap is a feature documentary which follows the history of two eccentric builders and their amazing structures which were both built by a single man. more Phillip the Fossil What makes a person willing to kill and die for their religion? Winner of best documentary at 2010 Slamdance. more American Jihadist Centering around an aging party animal chasing the endless summer, Phillip The Fossil is an uncompromising and raw, portrait of everyday people who struggle in all their blemished glory for a life of meaning. more The Scenesters When a serial killer starts picking off beautiful young hipsters on the east side of Los Angeles, a group of crime scene videographers hatch a plan to catch him. more Breaking Upwards The Good Soldier follows the journeys of five combat veterans from different generations of American wars as they sign up, go into battle, and eventually change their minds about what it means to be a good soldier. more Breaking Upwards 'Breaking Upwards' explores a young, real-life New York couple who, fours years in and battling codependency, decide to intricately strategize their own break up ... more Zombie Girl Emily Hagins is making a zombie movie. It’s feature-length, it’s bloody, and the zombies don’t run. Just like it should be. But there’s one difference between her film and every other zombie movie you’ve ever seen: Emily is twelve ... more Junkie Nurse (aka Boppin' At The Glue Factory) A junkie nurse stumbles into his dream job: running the graveyard shift at a convalescent home. He beguiles the staff and charms the old folks. Then just as his drugs run out and the management starts closing in, a crafty old jazzman discovers ... more Remarkable Power With the plug about to be pulled on his late night talk show after a fifteen year run, and his wife engaged in a steamy affair with a pro baseball star, host Jack West is desperate - to keep aflame his fading celebrity, and avenge the misdeeds of his adulterous spouse ... more A Necessary Death "Documentary Filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparation to final act." Cut from 142 video tapes, this project sheds light on the tragedy following the infamous Internet ad ... more Punching the Clown A young lawyer sabotages his career, moves home and starts a 'green' lawn care service to save his integrity. Frustrated by suburban values, he resorts to extortion and corrupts himself more deeply than the law ever could before finding his way. ... more For Christ's Sake Robert, a small town priest, finds out his estranged brother desperately needs a loan for cancer treatment and secretly borrows money from the church's emergency fund to help. He finds out later that his brother has used the money to finance a porn movie with Robert as the unwitting producer ... more Your Beautiful Cul de Sac Home Henry Phillips, a modern day American troubadour, is grinding his way through the heartland, living out of his car and singing his twisted satirical songs to anyone who will listen. After a booking mishap involving a Christian fundraiser, he decides it's time for a change ... more Break Break is a stylistic noir drama about an introverted hit man named Frank who is contracted to carry out an unusual job. When the city's crime boss, known only as "The Man", discovers that he's terminally ill, he enlists Frank to carry out his own assassination. "The Man", however, is selfish and jealous, and doesn’t want to die alone ... more Nerdcore For Life Two of the 21st century's most powerful social forces; Hip-Hop and Geek Culture, collide head-on in the feature length documentary, Nerdcore For Life. Born on the Internet, Nerdcore is rap music made by geeks, for geeks and covers such traditionally nerdy topics as comic books, video games, anime, sci-fi, astrophysics and technology ... more Summer Scars Six fourteen year old kids skip school to play in the woods, but some hot rodding on a stolen moped changes the fate of their day. They crash into Peter, a disheveled drifter, who is delighted to have a group of children to hang out with. First he gains their trust by joining in their games, but then his behaviour begins to change ... more Let Others Suffer A group of wannabe filmmakers sets out to make an important feminist documentary, "A Journey To Courage." Though initially well-meaning and impossibly earnest, they soon reveal themselves to be just a bunch of incompetent, delusional and manipulative liars. ... more Entry Level After losing his restaurant, chef CLAY MAGUIRE must start his career all over--at the bottom. Pushing forty with no "corporate skill-set", Clay enters the strange world of the Unemployable Interviewees of America ... more SNUFF: A documentary about killing on camera Feature film examining the existence of films in which people are murdered on camera and the culture surrounding them. Through interviews with former FBI Profilers, Cultural Academics, and Film Historians the documentary delves into the disturbing history and myth of Snuff Films ... more The Project Shot in documentary format, about documentary filmmakers filming a feature project about cops and kids in Brooklyn, New York, the film is in fact a narrative feature. Superb editing representative of the music video generation flies us through worlds that live in the shadows of bridges and project housing ... more The Cook It's a long holiday weekend at the Lambda Epsilon Zeta sorority house, and a handful of girls stay behind to indulge in three days of partying, sex games and strangely delicious meals prepared by the weird new chef. But as the sisters begin to disappear one-by-one, the remaining coeds The Slut, The Stoner, The Bible Beater, The Dumb Hot Blonde, The Predatory Lesbian, The Tease, The Dominatrix ... more Big City Dick A street trumpeter and part-time guest on a local rock radio station, Richard fills his world with obsessions. This includes "Sea Hunt" (and the "Son of Sea Hunt", Jeff Bridges), the "Golden Age of Television" production music ... more All the Days Before Tomorrow All the days before tomorrow is the story of the unmistakable chemistry between two people who are right for each other, but at the wrong moment in time. Wes (Joey Kern) wakes up to an unexpected phone call ... more Rolling Utilizing the form of a docudrama, cinema verite style footage entwines with personal testimonials rendering a fictional chronicle, which captures the appeal of the drug Ecstasy ... more Dante's Inferno Its been kicking around the cultural playground for over 700 years. But it has never before been interpreted with exquisitely hand-drawn paper puppets, brought to life using purely hand-made special effects. Until now ... more A New Tomorrow A New Tomorrow is a mockumentary that skewers the Christian Right, lampoons dysfunctional Democrats, takes aim at the War in Iraq, caricatures the Bush Administration and pokes fun at how Americans vote ... more Love and Stacie 'I just think we need some time apart' are words that no aspiring boyfriend wants to hear. Especially, when the girl is a girl like Stacie. Nonetheless, filmmaker Michael Davis heard these words two days ago ... more Burning Annie Burning Annie is a dark romantic comedy about Max, a college student who comes to believe Woody Allen's classic film has cursed his love life, and soon has his life turne ... more Under the City Under The City follows the attempted redemption of Nate Mayott a semi-reformed, thirty year-old, ex-con with a dark past trying to rebuild his family and maintain his freedom ... more The Little Death There is a secret about room 1412 that only Sam knows. The odd building manager knows nothing about it, and neither do the tenants of the run-down apartment building. Creatures from the Pink Lagoon The Stranger: The film's combination of crass physical humor, well-timed genre winks, and some nicely deployed low-tech splatter more than jump any conceptual hurdles ... more Two Front Teeth A horror-comedy about a reporter who big Christmas scoop turns to nightmare when a vampire Santa Clause arrives to reclaim the reporter's only defense - a reindeer's red nose ... more High Score Austin Chronicle: Mack's direction keeps you wondering on which side of the obsessive/determined line Carlton sits, but also sets you up for a stunning finale that arguably makes any faults in the film worth it ... more Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell The Stranger: The overall flow of manic invention is honestly something to see even if you're not exactly sure what it is you're seeing ... more