Austin Film Festival 2007

An account of the ironic death of a man trapped inside a refrigerated meat wagon, told using archival and imagined material to speculate on the man's final hours

A grieving eye doctor confronts her guilt over the loss of her young son, an aging painter comes to terms with impending blindness, and a young photographer grapples with his inner demons in three intersecting stories set along a single subway line in Manhattan. Moss and de Villa’s new feature (they won the Austin Film Festival’s Narrative Feature Jury Award in 2002) is a deeply moving and wonderfully acted exploration of loneliness in New York City.

In a supermarket in the armpit of the Mountain West, an enormous grocery clerk scribbles poetry. Tracy Orbison is a dreamer, and his outsized sense of wonder fuels a series of tragicomic adventures. Tracy enrolls in an acting class, falling under the spell of the arrogant instructor, a Z-list actor named Truman Hope (played by a smug and funny Baldwin) while at home, Tracy fends off Agnes, his God-fearing, self-loathing mother, while his sister Peggy, a perennial lonely heart, at long last finds somebody to love. Writer/star Palmer and director Bowman’s festival darling is both uncomfortable and hilarious.

Writer/subject Dave Gorman’s quest is a simple one: to drive cross country from Los Angeles to the Atlantic Ocean never spending a cent at a chain restaurant, chain hotel or chain gas station. But in a country where the mom and pop shop is nearing extinction, does the independent spirit of America still thrive enough to go coast to coast? And how do you do it all while being a vegetarian, anyway? Gorman and Devonshire’s insightful film opens up the back roads of the country to find the heart of America.

When a young girl is troubled by a school assignment to dissect a frog, she turns to her dysfunctional family for answers.

For a kid growing up in the suburbs, the truth can lie at the bottom of a fish tank.

Nick is letting the world know that he is moving up the corporate ladder with his new job in the Bahamas.

After a zombie attack one young man strikes out into the world, alone.

Roy, Ireland’s only animated character was born into an ordinary ‘live action’ family, but must face a life of prejudice simply for being drawn.