"When my girlfriend told me she was leaving me, I did what any normal person would've done. I fished out an old screenplay and began a rewrite." Special from Newport Beach Film Festival.

The mating game is funny. It's also poignant and painful...and the most important activity most of us will ever engage in. Special From-the-Filmmaker.

I don't presume to say this is a film about social problems. It is on the universal relationship between mother and child, and the mother's memory of a terrible past experience. From-the-Filmmaker special.

Filmmaker lensed the absurdity of what we take at face value - and finds more truth in where the laughs fall. From-the-Filmmaker special.

Teen must stand up to his parents' cultural ignorance to preserve the integrity of his new home... and the filmmaker, juggling filming, funding and wedding plans, almost forgot the ending.

In order for this "greatest murder mystery ever written" to become a feature film, you have to respect what happened and honor the victims and their families, says filmmaker Michael DelVecchio from the 2008 NBFF.

Cathy Karol sets her jazzy sketches to music to create the short film A Jazz Sketchbook. (July 2007)

Discover the coveted filmmaker's trail, as a well-received short traverses the path to feature film. (June 2007)

Director Douglas Attal shows what can happen when Santa gives up hope, in his comedy Santa Closed. (Cannes 2007)

Human compassion or self-survival? In this powerful short film, director Sixto Melendez explores where we'd draw the line. (Cannes 2007)

He's an environmentalist, film producer, and a young girl's hero: Jean-Michel Cousteau. (Cannes 2007)

Ever wonder how some people get stuck in dead end jobs? Zach Litwack's film could shine a little light on the conspiracy. (Cannes 2007)

After being wrongfully incarcerated for 20 years, Karl Malnek is given the opportunity to commit the crime he never did. (Cannes 2007)

Even though she has everything a girl could want, Lucia's life is dwindling into depression...but she has a plan. (Cannes 2007)

Director Cristian Pozo's eye-opening film uses clever camera tricks and snappy editing to tell a story of secret love and one serious case of writer's block.

Lou Ma Ho directs a compelling tale of an ill-fated monk who must choose between living a life of shame or fighting in a battle he's destined to lose against a deadly samurai.

While living in a world of fear, Thomas finds comfort and relief in butterflies. (Cannes 2007)

A young girl creates a dynamic dragon, presenting the tremendous power of art and the creative mind. (2007 Sedona International Film Festival).

A young man attempting suicide receives unexpected, and unsolicited, help from the Suicide Club to "do it properly" and go out with a bang. (2007 Sedona International Film Festival)

Highlighted shorts are: Wednesday, High Maintenance, One Rat Short, Two Guys and a Battle-Ax, and Paperboat. (Moving Pictures Magazine Art issue, April/May 2007)

Highlighted shorts include Emily's Song, Kind of a Blur, Santa Baby, Shade, and Window. (Moving Pictures Magazine Business and Technology issue, Feb/Mar 2007)

Maria Gigante takes a creepy yet comical look at what lies behind the Girls Room door. (Cannes 2007)

Jill Jaress captures the awkwardness and unpredictability of speed dating in Someone to Love. (Cannes 2007)

Public school tap dancing puts much more than a little pep in the steps of both its students and instructor. (July 2007)

Director Varda Hardy touches on the pains and beauties of death through the life of Shane Lewis. (Cannes 2007) 

Cathy Karol opens her sketchbook and brings her drawings to life with a little help from jazz maestro Jimmy Rowles.

Andrea Bacci creates a provocative story of a secretive couple wrapped up in a world of silence, sex, lies and love. (Cannes 2007)

A humble young man is challenged to cope after the death of his renowned naturalist/adventurer father. (Cannes 2007)

Athina has the same responsibilities as her fellow 14-year-olds, plus one: her newborn daughter. (Cannes 2007)

Set in a small-town diner in 1962 Alabama, this short film captures the essence of racism and the fear which attaches to such hate. (Sedona 2007)

Intertwined are the lives and hopes of two men in a hospital for a liver donor. (Cannes 2007)

Rex Buster hits the nail on the head with its contemporary depiction of poor little rich kids who cruise through life oblivious to everything, including their own misery. (Cannes 2007)