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- 'What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?' So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge to a Border, MVFF 2014) provocative meditation on the Möbius relationship of fiction to reality, and the notion of creative control. In Love Twice, Luz and Ken are star-crossed lovers in screenwriter Sal's script, until their desire takes shape, inscribing itself into a movie of their own design. Risking his sanity to save the screenplay, Sal struggles to regain control of his characters and satisfy the demands of his producer Lester (legendary Velvet Underground founder John Cale), driving a wedge between the lovers with a desperate attempt to seduce Luz. Veteran actor Carl Lumbly appears as Rodrigo, another controlling interest in Sal's film, who imposes his own designs on the production. In Love Twice, the pulls of competing desire may be difficult to bear, but impossible to give up.
- Rob Nilsson's powerful and complex tale dives into the heart of a man driven to confront his past in order to heal the pain of the present. Danny (Kieron McCartney) is a tortured man-child who returns to his family's abandoned island retreat and finds himself beset by fantasies of deceased ancestors, former lovers and concerned friends. Frazier (Robert Viharo) is Danny's enigmatic father-figure, and the man Danny's deceased mother Alicia passionately loved but could not let herself have. Both men are prisoners of their pasts; neither can abandon their passionate devotion to Alicia.
- Bay Area filmmaker Rob Nilsson's third installment in his breathtaking Nomad Trilogy (after Arid Cut, and Center Divide). The film kicks off with Rail and his girlfriend Mitra on a motorcycle headed for Northern California in search of a long-lost father. They're joined by three friends forced to hitchhike when their truck gives up. Lost in a burnt-out forest, they face dehydration and death while Rail and Mitra move on through a drought-ridden wasteland trying to find a man no one knows. Under majestic skies and amidst transcendent natural wonders, these colorful wanderers uncover truths about unsettled modern life in our divided country. It's exciting to see Nilsson in full control of the medium, crafting a hypnotic experience about the raw, messy intimacy of family and the global impact of today's conflicted society. Equal parts shocking and calming, Faultline is its own rare breed of independent film, a gritty and beautiful cinematic poem.
- Four interlocking stories with a Jazz theme. Four Women go out to visit the sites of the jazz clubs where Lou, 65 and dying of cancer, claims she once performed as a young singer. It's election night, Nov. 8, 2016 and the women follow the results on their cell phones. It's also opening night for the C Flat jazz club where they end the evening up as their worst fears are realized: Trump has won the election.
- Reflections on the tragedy of Leon Trotsky, a major figure in the 1905 and 1917 Russian Revolutions.
- Center Divide is the second film in Rob Nilsson's multi-character Nomad Trilogy. In the first film, Arid Cut (2019), our refugees of the American Dream leave the city. In Center Divide, with no more West to escape to, they're now on the road heading East.
- Four cell phones following modern lost generation types colliding in a crash pad, all cameras on screen at once in real time, no editing, one take, shot in 1 hour and 13 minutes. In Russian with English subtitles.
- Sky-high housing costs, rents no one can pay, urban development, and street crime make life difficult for RV dwellers in Berkeley, California. City bureaucrats collaborate with real estate agents to gentrify neighborhoods forcing out already marginalized people living in cars, trucks, and RVs. With no more West to escape to, they contemplate turning back East. Sandy 1, the clan's Mother Teresa, beset with seizures, her nephew Rail, a young poet and tap dancer, traveling with his girlfriend Mitra on a motorcycle, look for clues to Arid Cut, a place in the desert where Rail might find Bert Neville, the father he never met. Ziggy and Travis, builders and jacks of all trades, think they might have a clue as the building site they're working is shut down by the city. Taylor is a rapper looking for gigs along the way with his eccentric agent, Wes and his stoner friend, Geoff. Lucille drives Uber and lives with her mother in a van. Herbie sells meth for Pinto, dealer and RV dweller, in order to keep his younger brother in school. Sandy 1 suddenly dies of a seizure and friends gather to mourn. In Sandy's honor, and to help Rail, they agree to head East on a search for Arid Cut.
- Donatello is a complex man who bets money he does not possess on horses, sports teams and just about anything else he cannot attain. What Donatello isn't betting on is the strange and sudden appearance of Lydia, a beautiful woman with an expensive problem Don is convinced he can solve. Through one long night together, emotions are laid bare, settling and unsettling in the shadowy corners of the San Francisco skyline.
- "THE LIGHT," IS A SPECIAL GLOBAL VIDEO TRIBUTE TO MEMORIALIZE THE ORLANDO PULSE NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS Created by Shawn Balentine, Hollywood's Openly Gay, Out Stuntman/Stunt Coordinator.
- Snake and Zelda have no business being with each other. Zelda is aging and Snake is without means. Neither has visible skills nor prospects. Zelda finds him at a day labor street corner. Snake can't paint straight. But Darwin contains buried secrets for the lost. And they get together in spite of everything.
- 27 years later, Rob Nilsson reprises his role as Mel Hurley for a photo session with the exotic Funmi Marlowe (T. Moon), an artist and model who has commissioned him to do erotic photographs of her for her upcoming gallery show. A one-day Direct Action improvisation, Nilsson and Moon collaborate and clash as the boundaries of professional and personal become blurred.
- The first segment of what would eventually be the Prairie Trilogy, about a veteran North Dakota poet and socialist organizer, who fought against economic exploitation.
- A green screen video production company, owned by two warring brothers and their wives, has hired an eccentric director, cast and crew to make a feature film about divorce. The film will also introduce a new device they're testing which will transmit an accurate simulacrum of a person's emotional state over the Internet, thereby creating new options for disaffected couples to reconnect. They have partnered with a second tier studio which has sent their manipulative representative to monitor the production. A former Wall St. attorney turned entertainment rep, he faces unconscious racism, questioning of his American identity, and further tests of male ego, while, in turn, conspiring to grab rights to the device. And of course the actors' agent comes along to protect her clients and get her piece of the pie. But the production is soon in chaos. The director wants to challenge the original premise and soon a proposal gains strength to make the film about the company itself, an increasingly dysfunctional group seemingly divorced from their senses, their bodies and ordinary common sense. Can this train wreck of a film be rescued? Will the device function as intended? Probably not.
- While living in Boston in 1968, Sundance and Cannes winning director Rob Nilsson made The Country Mouse, a 16mm retelling of the "Country Mouse, City Mouse" fable, which imagines Boston city layabouts and misfits as the rodents. A countrified "mouse" comes to the city in a Model A Ford and runs afoul of city "rat" hipsters.
- When a man crosses a bridge, he faces a border. Pakal Gomez, ex- border patrol officer, railroaded into prison for a crime he did not commit, turns to terror as the last chance to wake up America. A gripping character study of rebels with and without a cause...
- A young Jordanian woman from a small town outside Amman seeks greater personal and cultural freedom from a traditional family wants to attend a youth conference in Petra.
- A satirical tale of the economic downturn, centered on a birthday celebration in San Francisco, with a colorful gathering of friends, artists, escorts and hangers-on.
- An introverted and agoraphobic woman reconnects with her niece and they both come to terms with their past
- The final segment of the Prairie Trilogy, about a veteran North Dakota poet and socialist organizer, who fought against economic exploitation.
- After 15 years away, Thorson (played by Russell Murphy, former San Francisco Ballet principal dancer) returns to the ballet company where audiences once flocked to see him. He has choreographed a ballet for troubled times but it's not going to be easy to finance new work with funds for the arts drying up. As his original scheme collapses and he loses heart, a new experience, both transcendent and terrifying, seizes him.