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Breaking Glass Pictures at the Cannes Film Festival
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Crime/Urban
SXSW World Premiere
US Distributor LionsGate
Synopsis:
'LICKS' follows the story of a young man, D, as he returns to his Oakland neighborhood after two years served in prison for a botched robbery. In the days after his release, we are taken into D's world and follow him as he decides what direction he wants to take his life after being locked up.
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HOUSE OF THE WITCHDOCTOR (2014)
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Horror/Thriller/Crime
Starring:
Bill Moseley (The Devil's Rejects, Halloween)
Leslie Easterbrook (The Devil's Rejects)
Synopsis:
This homage to such 70s sploitation films as ''I Spit on Your Grave'' and Wes Craven's ''Last House on the Left'' centers on two career criminals go on a killing spree which eventually leads them to a small rural town where a group of graduate students are staying for a week-end. When they break into the Van Hooten residence to terrorize and kill the inhabitants, they discover the house is owned by a cult leader who turns the hunters into the hunted.
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Drama/Family
Starring:
Lily Rabe ('American Horror Story')
Hamish Linklater ('The Crazy Ones,' 42)
LisaGay Hamilton (Go For Sisters, Take Shelter)
Jake Weber (White House Down, Dawn of the Dead)
Synopsis:
Two powerful, yet troubled women flee a past that haunts them. The daughter of a murdered Black Panther revolutionary reluctantly gives shelter to a suicidal young woman. The difference between the two women opens them up to a new vision of themselves, as not only survivors, but as heroes. Reclaiming freedom, and life, they plunge forward, towards an unknown, transformative horizon.
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Horror/Thriller
Starring:
Andrew Sensenig (Upstream Color)
Melissa Mars (From Paris with Love)
Donny Boaz ('Dallas,' The Great Debaters)
Elle Lamont (Machete Kills)
Synopsis:
A woman is attacked by serial killers, taken
to a decaying home where the torture and humiliation
continue, before she manages to escape, seeking
justice and exacting revenge on her aggressor she
refuses to surrender as local police are moving in closer.
A tribute to the 1970s films. This films cinematic style, and the fact that is based on true events, makes this film so realistic. It would be necessary to remind you that its only a movie.
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CAMPAIGN OF HATE: RUSSIA & GAY PROPAGANDA (2014)
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Documentary
From Director Michael Lucas
Synopsis:
As most of the world moves forward toward gay equality, Russia is seemingly heading backward. Antigay sentiment and legislation are spreading rapidly throughout the country. In 2013, the Russian parliament passed a ban on so-called 'gay propaganda' that effectively makes nearly any public discussion of gay equality a crime. With the events surrounding PUSSY RIOT, the recent Sochi Olympics and the events in Ukraine...There has never been a more timely subject.
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Horror/Thriller
Starring:
Eric Roberts (The Expendables)
Danielle Harris (Hatchet Trilogy, Rob Zombie's Halloween)
Felissa Rose (Sleepaway Camp)
Synopsis:
Down and out director Julian Barrett plans to resurrect his successful 80's slasher franchise in a modern reboot that entails using a reality show as its template. Should it succeed Barrett would once again rise to prominence. Bringing together an eclectic group of young "contestants" as well as his former stars, Barrett seems to have put it all together. Then people start dying. For real. And "elimination" takes on a whole new meaning as.
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DADDY'S LITTLE GIRL (2013)
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Horror/Thriller
From Writer/Director Chris Sun
Synopsis:
After the police find Derek's daughter brutally murdered on the beach, he vows to make the culprit suffer for his actions, even if that person is 'part of the family.' With careful research into the history of torture, Derek prepares himself and his basement for a week of brutal tactics that will make his daughter's killer feel the pain that he has inflicted upon so many others. In a time when stranger danger is ever present, a single father learns that it's the ones you trust most who have to be watched the closest.
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About Cannes Market Dailies
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