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Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet.
When John, a brilliant but volatile lawyer on the brink of personal ruin, accepts a massive retainer to defend a wealthy businessman accused of murdering his own son, it seems like a straightforward path to redemption. The suspect claims innocence, pointing toward an accidental shooting amidst a toxic family dispute. But as John dives deeper into the investigation, drowning in files, contradictions, and unsettling evidence, enters a psychological labyrinth. Confronted by a grieving, unyielding mother and an enigmatic family history, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Driven by obsession, John must uncover the truth behind a tragic family dynamic before the darkness consumes the case and his last chance at saving his own family.
In 1983, film student Rich Murray was handed $20,000 in a brown paper bag by a hustler named 'Butch.' These were the funds he used to direct his first music video for a local Philly rocker named Alan Mann. That video for the song “Christmas on the Block”, went on to become the first and perhaps only video by an unsigned artist to play on regular rotation on MTV. Using “Christmas on the Block” as a framing device, Murray illuminates Mann’s larger story - and how he could have, should of and almost did make it, but didn’t because of his excesses, and a tragic accidental death. The film also turns the lens sharply on the film’s director (Murray) and how his own excesses might have resulted in the same tragic trajectory, that but for wisdom and luck, did not.
A Paraguayan filmmaker recovers the film made by a Frenchman in rural Paraguay in 1968, the one that had moved him in his adolescence, during Stroessner’s dictatorship. He embarks on an odyssey through France, Argentina and Paraguay with the intention to reunite the Frenchman with the Paraguayan peasant family, building a film of questions and searches, about the absent and the present, about the adventure of life and the mystery of cinema. Years later, the long dreamed of reunion takes place on a luminous day under the bright sun, as a love story about humanity and the power cinema exerts on the personal and the collective memory..
Xiao Wei, a socially anxious man, uses an app to create an AI double that shares his appearance but has a confident personality, and lets it socialize on his behalf. At first, the double’s success plunges Xiao Wei into virtual gratification. However, the double gradually spirals out of control: it not only develops genuine feelings for Xiao Yu, but also begins to question the very value of Xiao Wei’s existence, and eventually claims to be the more perfect "Xiao Wei". When Xiao Wei tries to expose the double in the real world, he finds that in Xiao Yu’s eyes, he himself has become the stranger.
Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Screenwriter Yizhou wrote a story set in Western Sichuan: Photographer Yu Yan travels to Yuzixi to find the mountain god who is said to predict the future. After fainting, he is rescued by Tibetan girl Pema Chodron. As they travel and live together, they gradually develop feelings for each other. Yu Yan discovers that her cowhide diary can foresee their ending. Yu Yan leaves in a fit of anger but returns, and the story repeats itself. Yu Yan and Pema Chodron are both projections of the two sides of Yizhou's inner self.
Wedding day, after the restaurant, the husband and wife go to the apartment to spend time together, but how they spend it remains a mystery.
In the closure of the city’s last video rental stores, this short documentary finds its starting point to reflect on urban gentrification and the changing habits of consumption. Through disappearing spaces and the people who once inhabited them, the film connects the loss of these places with the transformation of the audiovisual medium and the arrival of artificial intelligence, used as a metaphor for an unstoppable technological change that redefines the way we live, consume, and relate to culture, leaving open the question of what is lost along the way.
Directed by Alfred m Hernandez. 5min 35sec
Alfred Hernandez’s work has been screened in various festivals, PBS stations, and museums of art.
Director Statement
I am a filmmaker with a body of work, mostly short pieces that stem the span of thirty plus years. Coming from an animation background, most of these pieces have been crafted by me where I take on all the roles from script to prop building to shooting and final editing. I’ve been fascinated by Ai imaging and how my imagination and ideas might translate into Ai aided videos with imagery that could only be produced with enormous budgets and resources.
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