Keith Miller's film is a quiet visual exploration of race, class and daily experience conveyed with an intensity born from lead actor Shannon Harper and writer/director Miller’s full understanding of the medium’s true potential.

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Christina Choe's film stands firmly as a sobering wake-up call to those viewers who shrug their shoulders every time they hear that another inner city youth has been murdered.

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With a sharp eye for the ironies and bizarre juxtapositions of porn professionals dealing with mundane tasks of everyday life, director Alexandra Berger chronicles three and a half years in the life of “Porno Dan.”

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Much more than just a sensational story of prostitution and transsexualism, Kelly is about molding an identity (where better than L.A. to do so?), as well as being an archetypal, messy and complicated mother-daughter story.

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BINDLESTIFFS fearlessly crosses just about every line that a comedy shouldn’t; it’s a consistently laugh-out-loud funny, sharp-as-claws satire of the America we live in.

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Consistently surprising, full of strange twists and odd behavior, but always true to life, Heavy Girls demonstrates with extravagant imagination and clarity of vision how there’s nowt so queer as folk.

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