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When the Sun Turns Red and Time Stops

Suspense/Drama
When 29 year old Sonya Maddison's adopted daughter is kidnapped and imprisoned, she is forced to confront the skeletons in her closet, and rescue her daughter. But she finds out secrets come with devastating consequences.
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Something's Fishy in DC

Comedy
What do you get when you mix up international espionage, an absolute lack of principals, political doubletalk, cheeky puffery, a heavy dose of arrogance, and debauchery? President Bash and his merry cabinet of clowns do just that in what turns out to be a hilarious attempt to bolster his failing ratings and get re-elected by using the fear principle on the world with a comic twist. After deploying this unthinkable act and leaving numerous red herrings the expert
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Spin Cycle

Comedy
Spin Cycle is a modern urban sex farce that takes a wry look at relationships and the ironies of modern living. What happens when a career woman’s biological alarm clock starts to ring? Carol will stop at nothing to satisfy her desire to become a mother. She will force her slacker musician husband Bobby to do the most depraved acts. She will sleep with his best friend Roland. She will accept sperm donations from Steve, the real estate agent. She will even
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2 Hours to Rigor Mortis

Supernatural thriller
The heart stops. The brain continues - a final thought, a last wish. The spirit soars. It's about two hours to rigor mortis...
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Secret Service

Action Adventure
During the second world war Hitler tried to create a super race that would conquer the world. After the war, the U.S. found Hitler’s lab and continued to experiment with his research. Years later the Secret Service created four genetically enhanced supermen. The new race of supermen have grown into undaunted leaders with the abilities of the most powerful generals in the world.
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Mystic Sedona/You Aren't ALL There

Comedy
An elderly couple receive their first satellite dish but the programs arrive all screwy.
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This Thing Called Life

Comedy/Fantasy/Drama
A Disilluisioned comedian dressed as a clown has a near-death experience and wanders into a Haunted bar called SPIRITS featuring a After-life Happy Hour.
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Spider Web

Low Budget Thriller/Horror
Six students embark on a retreat with a bottle of vodka that's secretly been laced with a powerful hallucinogen called Spider Web. Their dream weekend quickly turns into a nightmare as they spiral into their own individual fears, obsessions, and neuroses.
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The Carthage Arms

Comedy
A New York City super leads tenants into combat against a rival apartment house.
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Caesar's Gaul

Comedy
In a Monty Python vein, Caesar is rescued from certain defeat by a highly irregular legion of gay actors and writers.
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Smile Now, Child

Western
In 1850's Oregon, there were few women so older men married little girls to get twice as much free land; that was the law. This is the story of one of those girls. (based on a novel)
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Dangerous Passion

Action Drama
The fulfilment of a woman’s passion in a macho, misogynist and dangerous world: motor racing.
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Desert Galleon

Action/Adventure/Sci-Fi
While in search of a ruthless treasure hunter and his legendary galleon, a father and son travel back in time to an age of seafaring exploration and discovery. Can the treasure ship be found before it’s lost in the ever-shifting sands of a timeless desert? or will the treasure hunter find more than he bargained for in this swashbuckling adventure.
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Flora Sandes, KGS

Historical Biography
A proper English miss volunteers in the Serbian medical corps and then becomes a hero on the battlefield winning the highest award for valor.
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Open

Romantic Comedy
Have you ever found yourself wondering why you do the crazy things you? If you have, then more than likely you've been OPEN. For Kriss, the thought of being open is brought forth in this hilariously funny yet gut wrenching story about life, love and the persuit of his illusive dream as a screen writer.
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Nargasaan Prophecy

Sci-Fi
An influential Governor of another world and his elite task force has only 10 days to investigate reports of poison injecting armored beasts whose appearance coincides with a highly criticized prophecy.   *An adaptation of the published novel, Nargasaan Prophecy: Book One by M. J. Goodner.
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Hotel Kalifornia

Horror
Where in the hell are we? Three college students on spring break find themselves asking after unfortunately finding themselves here. Here, where running is useless, and hiding is a waist of time. The only thing left is the fear of certain death. Welcome to the Hotel Kalifornia. You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave!
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Disaster!

Comedy
The comets are coming! The tornadoes are coming! Can the astronaut find his hearing aid? Will the farmer be able to secure his cows?!
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The Curse of Druathor

Fantasy Action
The Curse of Druathor takes place on an ancient world named Gelarradus. In ages past, there was a war between the Kingdom of Voharalith, ruled by the evil necromancer Druathor, and the Kingdom of Etollanor. Druathor was defeated and cast down into the hellish netherworld. Druathor’s followers created a crystal that could one day be used to raise Druathor from the netherworld. The story centers around a descendent of Druathor and his two evil lieutenants who
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Reverse The Curse

Comedy/Fantasy
Ever since Boston Red Sox Owner Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth, “the Bambino”, to the New York Yankees in 1919 to finance his Broadway musicals, the team’s ill-fated misfortunes have been attributed to the “Curse of the Bambino”. For two Red Sox fanatics, the opportunity of a lifetime awaits: a chance to turn back time and Reverse The Curse!
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Different Paths

Action/Sci-Fi/Drama
Frank Smith, a police officer, is in pursuit after a man name John Stevenson for killing Frank's partner. Later, these two men must come together to combat a big threat.
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Oh, Dear Lord No

Drama
After Jordan Hancock's mother becomes divorced, his best friend, Jeremy, moves in on the forty year old vixen, and hilarity ensues.
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Salammbo

Drama
Gustave Flaubert's "Salammbo" is perhaps his least, of many, known works. By adapting this novel to its rightful place- the silver screen- an experienced producer, director, and film crew will garner big bucks at the box office. Think in terms of Ridley Scott's, "Gladiator" except with more gore and violent gratuity. The story wraps around a seductive woman the story of Carthage in the Punic Wars; lust and mayhem ignite in an onslaught of visually stunning images... on
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The Waiter

Romantic Comedy
An eccentric millionaire is advised by his psychiatrist to work as a waiter at his own five-star Las Vegas resort.
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The Diaper Don

Comedy/Family
In order to have a gambling debt erased, an insurance salesman agrees to allow a mob boss to "borrow" his family while the mobster's mother visits from Italy. The pair switch places for six weeks, and each learn a valuable lesson about families.
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The Genesis Project

Sci-Fi/Action
An elite intelligence operative walks away from his young son and failing marriage for an underground assignment and suddenly finds himself targeted by his own government when it is revealed that he may be a unknowing test subject for the Genesis Project; an experiment that could allow men to live forever.
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The Gates

Thriller
An attorney on the rise stumbles upon a secret tying a dead former client to a prominent political figure and finds himself at the center of a firestorm when his prints mysteriously wind up on the murder weapon found at the scene. Now he has until sunrise to find the final piece of the puzzle or lose everything.
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21 Valleys of Palestine

Action
Middle East expert and CIA operative John Contrell enlists the help of Arab wiseman to protect an inspirational peace project that will being water to the Gaza Strip, while chasing down Rylotech's stolen Star Wars satellite.
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The Magic Shoes

Sports Fantasy/Family
A poor, crippled boy who dreams of playing baseball despite the constant taunts by the town bully, is thrust into another dimension by a “washed up” Native American medicine man that sees the ‘great warrior’s spirit’ in him. The boy must conquer the challenging evil forces in this mystical arena or perish in order to achieve his dream of playing professional baseball.
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Marti

Drama/Supernatural
Will She get her son back after his death.
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Black Wings

Drama
In an effort to cleanse himself of the past, a dying man takes a last road trip. As he starts to reminisce about his past, he painfully realizes that there is no turning back from his destiny.
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Untitled

Crime/Drama
David Lind creates havoc in the Sacramento community before finding John Holmes and Southern California in "Wonderland."
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Lonesome Red

Comedy
A tale of cars, car wax, birds, birdseed, birdlime, sex, vanity and greed. It’s a comedy of suburban consumerism run amok in the American Heartland. Dave Pinkerton is a divorced birdseed salesman who lives in a small house on the cusp of an affluent Midwest neighborhood. He invents two products that change his life: a wax that protects his 20-year-old car from birdlime; and an upscale, anti-squirrel birdfeeder that teaches wild birds to tap a code.
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A Story of a Wedding

Comedy/Drama
A young woman's wedding is ruined when five murderous criminals come hunting for a man they once knew, creating a massacre in the process.
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Niagara Falls

Drama
Set in the deteriorating city of Niagara Falls, NY, five people look to hold on to the little hope they have left in their changing lives.
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American Vengeance

Action/Thriller
Two female Deputy Marshals investigate the disappearance of a hacker turned escaped felon whose out for vengeance on a Colombian Druglord. His plans fall apart when the Druglord gets the upper hand, and he realizes he’s no longer the hunter but the hunted. With no place to run or hide, and his girlfriend’s life in jeopardy, he turns to the DEA for help.
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Tiger Lady

Action/Drama
When a young Green Beret in Vietnam has a transcendent experience during combat, his search for himself takes an unexpected turn, even as he is pulled ever deeper into a CIA-backed revolution, opium smuggling, and an intricate love triangle.
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Nothing to Forgive

Noir/Drama/Thriller
When a reclusive history professor brutally kills the man acquitted of murdering his wife and daughter, he attracts the attention of a mobster’s beautiful widow, who seduces him and asks him to kill again—for her.
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Broken English

Mission-thriller
An Irish legend is “recruited” by a shadowy group for one last mission. When the job goes wrong, he finds himself in their crosshairs. On the run, he eventually learns that he is a pawn in a political assassination plot, and the woman helping him is really an killer working for…them.
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The Truth

Action/Adventure/Romance/Fantasy
Based on real knowledge of ancient science called magic. Destiny makes us forget our past and believe we live only once. But sometime there can be exceptions.  Tom leads a regular life spending most of his time searching for the job. Meet with Liz start a chain of events which changes his life: beautiful/hard love story, colorful life on alien planet, wars in Atlanta, visit to Hell(?), Paradise(?), God.
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Mary, Bloody Mary

Historical
The ill-fated life of Mary Tudor
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Grainne - Pirate Queen of Connaught

Historical
Grainne reminisces about her life on land and sea as she tried to throw off the English choke hold on her country.
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The Other Side

Dark Comedy
A modern 'Arsenic and Old Lace'
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The Lakeside Slasher

Drama
'The Karate Kid' with a butcher knife
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All The King's Men

Coming-of-age/Horror
The City of Baltimore needed a Mayor...they weren't expecting a KING!
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Heaven's Final Approach

Spiritual/Adventure
If fate and pre-destination are real, his DNA match with all of humanity (past and present) will set into motion a life's adventure for believers determined to protect God's Messenger.
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On The Road To Fill Up The Belly

Action-Adventure
This true action, adventure story takes place in Hungary in 1944-45 just before, and shortly after the second world war ended in Europe. This is a story of a young lad of fourteen years old, who risk his life many times to support his sick mother and younger brother living in Budapest, in despair, in a war-torned country.
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Double Cross

Crime Drama
Double Cross is a suspenseful crime drama that tells the story of a woman who is recruited by the captain of the police department to commit a murder for him. The woman, who happens to be in love with the intended victim, will do whatever it takes to save the man she loves. When the captain is found murdered, the detective assigned to the case uncovers one conspiracy after another and must rely on help from a suspect to finally solve the case.
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The First Cut

Drama
The First Cut delves into the life of a successful, never married mother of one living a few miles north of Miami Florida. Six months after graduating from high school, she gave birth to a son and never revealed to him who his father was. Seventeen years later, he is determined to find the father he never knew; a journey that takes him only as far as Islamorada. The mother’s years of secrets and lies are about to end as she confronts her past and only after the truth comes out can she be free to live the life she has always wanted.
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Otter Lake

Horror/Sci-Fi
Lake Forest is a nearly deserted lake in northern Wisconsin where there are only two full time residents and three rental cabins. A middle class family of five, three factory workers and a Hollywood couple have come to vacation on the lake on the same weekend. Their only problem is a six foot otter who gets it’s pleasure from killing humans. These very different people must now join forces if they want to survive.
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