Rockport Film Festival 2008

Westly Ferris is in love with his co-worker, Shannon, but she barely knows he's alive. When he builds up enough courage to ask her out, he fails miserably. But that night Shannon contacts Westly on the internet and offers him a second chance: the opportunity to get to know her better online. Despite company policy forbidding intra-office relationships, Shannon suggests an internet relationship, using web cameras and instant messaging. The two coworkers begin an online romance, talking all night long. With each passing night, Westly falls more and more in love with Shannon, perceiving her aloofness at work as an attempt to cover-up their illicit online relationship. But while Shannon is proving to be everything Westly hoped she would be, there is still one very important element missing from their relationship: physical contact. Shannon makes every effort to fulfill Westly's desire online but the need for the unobtainable begins to unravel a surprising ruse: Westly's company has been setting him up with a series of complex relationshipsto help him learn about love and he is a test subject in a plan to write a program that will teach computers how to love. But in the process, Westly has fallen in love with an unobtainablebeauty and yearns for a normal relationship he now realized he can never have.

25 Missed Calls is an urban take on the myth of Sisyphus set on the cold unrelenting streets of Brooklyn. Dom, an alcoholic reaching the peak of crisis, has been drinking all night. It's early morning and the bartender has had enough. Thrown from the bar, Dom finds himself bruised, bloody and alone when he sees that he's missed 25 calls from his girlfriend. This is the story of one man's struggle between a dark and dirty reality and a sensual mysterious dream as he desperately tries to get back home.

So he sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed himself with Alicja, though he knew he had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality -- the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds.

Art in the Face of War is a feature documentary on eight World War II Veterans/Artists who recount their service experience and their use of art for journalism, as a tactical tool and to preserve their own sanity. They served in all theaters of operation and in all branches of the U.S. military, including the once-secret Army division known as The Deception Corps. Their powerful imagery -some done on the spot, some done years later from haunting memories- will enlighten, challenge, even amuse, showing that war is hell but that creativity can exisit in the face of destruction.

In a society where singular dedication to a career seems like the only way, Gary Synder struggles to balance two lives and thrive as both an art dealer and an Aikido instructor.

A gleaming silhouette rockets through the cosmos. She is the Aviatrix. And she exists in the mind of Anne, a young woman battling cancer.

Love's labor is lost on a used-car lot when misplaced affections lead to self-discovery...and tragedy.

A japanese-american soldier serving in World War 2 joins a squad of caucasian soldiers on a dangerous patrol in Nazi Italy.