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Screen Media Line up in AFM
November 1 - 8 Loews: 614
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LEMON
2017 - Comedy
Director: Janicza Bravo
Cast: Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera
LEMON is an off-beat comedy about Isaac Lachmann, a 40 year old dud. Isaac is a man in free fall immobilized by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his overbearing family doesn't help matters. What did he do to deserve this? Things were supposed to work out differently for him. Isaac Lachmann had big dreams. Now he just watches as his life unravels.
North American Release: Magnolia Pictures Aug-2017
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DAVE MADE A MAZE
2017 - Comedy
Director: Bill Watterson
Cast: Nick Thune, Meera Rohit Kumbhani, James Urbaniak
Dave, an artist who has yet to complete anything significant in his career, builds a fort in his living room out of pure frustration, only to wind up trapped by the fantastical pitfalls, booby traps, and critters of his own creation. Ignoring his warnings, Dave's girlfriend Annie leads a band of oddball explorers on a rescue mission. Once inside, they find themselves trapped in an ever-changing supernatural world, threatened by booby traps and pursued by a bloodthirsty Minotaur.
North American Release: Gravitas Ventures
Trailer:
Password: DaveMaze17
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UPLOADED
2017 - Thriller
Director: Kamran Delan
Cast: Chase Ryan Jeffery, Tom Green, Eric Roberts
Mark Clifton is an internet sensation with his innovative and high-octane viral prank videos. Despite his girlfriend's reservations, he plans and executes his most daring prank yet, but things go horribly wrong when someone is murdered in the process, and he is falsely accused of the crime. Now on the run, Mark has to prove his innocence, while avoiding the detective hell-bent on bringing him down...
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MAGNUM OPUS
2017 - Spi Thriller
Director: Kevin Elliott
Cast: Louise Griffiths, Adam Harrington, Pej Vahdat
Daniel Cliff, veteran of Desert Storm and the U.S. Intelligence Community, has turned away from the high pressure to pursue a simpler life as an artist. But when he discovers that his former colleagues are spying on him, tapping phones and computers without regard for the law, Daniel comes out of retirement to right a wrong. Armed with National secrets, he now has to choose who to betray.
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SILENCE PATTON
2017 - Documentary
Director: Robert Orlando
Cast: Cait Brasel, Peter Reznikoff, Don Kruizinga
Silence Patton asks the question: Why was General Patton silenced during his service in World War II and prevented from receiving needed supplies that would have ended the war nine months earlier, freed the death camps, and prevented Russian invasion of the Eastern Bloc, and Stalin's murderous rampage. Was the tragic collision with a US Military truck that lead to his death perhaps no accident at all?
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NERDLAND
2016 - Comedy
Director: Chris Prynoski
Cast: Paul Rudd, Patton Oswalt, Hannibal Buress,
'Aspiring actor John (Paul Rudd) and would-be screenwriter Elliot (Patton Oswalt) are two LA dudes approaching their 30th birthdays without yet becoming the megawatt superstars they know they were meant to be. In a town built on who you know (and who knows you), the ambitious duo will set out on an all-day journey through their all-star rolodexes to make it big by the end of the night.
TRAILER Password: SMNerd17
US Theatrical: Dec, 2016 - Samuel Goldwyn
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STRAY BULLETS
2016 - Crime, Thriller
Director: Jack Fessenden
Cast: Jack Fessenden, Kevin Corrigan, James Le Gros, Larry Fessenden
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
"Strikingly impressive" -Hollywood Reporter
Teaser: TEASER Password: SMStrayB16
US Theatrical: Feb, 2017
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BOKEH
2016 - Sci-Fi
Director: Geoffrey Orthwein, Andrew Sullivan
Cast: Maika Monroe, Matt O'Leary
On a romantic getaway to Iceland, a young American couple wakes up one morning to discover every person on earth has disappeared. Their struggle to survive and to reconcile the mysterious event leads them to reconsider everything they know about themselves and the world.
Teaser: TEASER Password: SMBokeh17
US Theatrical: Mar 17, 2017
WW Netflix: Jul 1, 2016
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TRANSPECOS
2016 - Thriller
Director: Greg Kwedar
Cast: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
On a remote desert highway, a makeshift Border Patrol checkpoint is manned by three agents: Davis, Flores, and Hobbs. It's like most boring days, but soon the contents of one car will change everything. What follows is a journey to uncover the surreal, frightening secrets hidden behind the facade of this lonely outpost. The end of the path may cost them their lives along a border where the line between right and wrong shifts like the desert itself.
Trailer: TRAILER Password: SMVTranspecos16T
US Theatrical: Sep 9, 2016
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BETA TEST
2016-Action/Sci-Fi
Director: Nicholas Gyeney
Cast: Manu Bennett, Larenz Tate, Linden Ashby
Champion gamer Max Troy discovers events in a new video game are being mirrored in the real world, and must join forces with the game's protagonist, Orson Creed, to unravel the conspiracy before the game's sinister plot overwhelms the city.
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THE BET
2016 - Comedy
Director: Ryan Ederer
Cast: Alex Klein, Dallas Page, Jake Roberts
A down on his luck man gets into a high stakes bet where he has one summer to find, and hook up with, every girl he had a crush on from 1st to 12th grade.
Teaser: TEASER Password: SMFBet16
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THE ASIAN CONNECTION
2015 - Action/Thriller
Director: Daniel Zirilli
Cast: Steven Seagal, Michael Jai White
Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang's vengeance. When Sam is killed, Jack turns to the love of his life, Pom, and the couple becomes a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde that takes the fight to the gang.
US Theatrical: May 13, 2016
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SHARK LAKE
2015 - Action/Thriller
Director: Jerry Dugan
Cast: Dolph Lundgren, Sara Malakul Lane
Meredith Hendricks happens to also be the best cop in her quiet town on Lake Tahoe. When a black-market, exotic species dealer named Clint is paroled from prison, something he let loose begins to make its presence known. Swimmers and land-lovers alike begin to become part of the food chain at an unbelievable rate. Meredith and her team discover that they're not just hunting one eating machine, but a whole family of them. Not everyone will make it out alive, but those who do will never forget this summer at Shark Lake.
US Theatrical: Oct 2, 2015
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THE GRIDIRON
2016- Comedy
Director: Gary Delaney
Cast: Michael Dixon, Dorsey Levens
Living a majority of his life as a dreamer, Derek has never amounted to anything no matter how hard he tried. Determined to finally show the world he can succeed at something, he decides to pursue a dream that has every odd against it: form an American Football team in the UK, a country dominated by soccer, rugby, cricket and fish & chips. However, his desire to prove everyone wrong consumes his life, and his drive for success just might lead him to lose everything.
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SIX GUN SAVIOR
2015 - Action/Adventure/Western
Director: Kirk Murray
Cast: Eric Roberts, Matthew Ziff, Martin Kove, Lorraine Ziff
Cowboy Lane McCrae finds himself double crossed after making a deal with the Devil to revive his dead brother. To make things right, he takes his vengeance out on the wild west.
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OPERATION: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH!
2016 - Family
Director: Mark Cartier
Cast: Denise Richards, Chris Browning, Caitlin Carmichael
When a new neighbor, Dr. Vargus and his daughter, move into a quiet neighborhood, the local kids find the last week of their summer disrupted by mysterious disappearances and strange noises coming from the new neighbor's house. To the deep dismay of his mother (Denise Richards), James and the local neighborhood kids combine forces to find out what's really going on at Dr. Vargus' house.
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BAD HURT
2015 - Drama
Director: Mark Kemble
Cast: Ashley Williams, Johnny Whitworth, Theo Rossi, Karen Allen
Life for the Kendalls has been burdened by grief and claustrophobia. Faced with caring for one child with special needs and another with PTSD, the family struggles for a sense of stability at home in their Staten Island, NY hamlet. When a secret from the past is revealed, it threatens to tear them apart.
US Theatrical: Feb 12, 2016
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About American Film Market Dailies
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(IFTA) The AFM is not a festival - it is the largest motion picture market in the world. 8,000 industry attendees, including producers, distributors, directors, agents, writers, lawyers & bankers. Over 540 films screened, most world or U.S. premieres.
$US3 Billion spent annually by participants to produce films
8,000+ industry professionals
2,000+ new films and projects
1,000+ production companies
400+ distributors
540+ films screened
100+ world premiers
70+ countries represented
50+ thought leaders speaking
7 days of networking activities
1 beachfront campus that covers it all
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