Calaveras International Film Festival 2009

A retired couple's quiet picnic in the park is violated by a silent intruder whose story exposes the troubling mysteries of existence.

When colossal war machines launch a merciless invasion, one woman struggles to survive in a world that isn’t all as it appears.

In the future, a planet in peril, evolves to a mechanized existence, destroying the natural order. All life and beauty is recreated electronically and thrives on solar power… until the day the sky turned black.

Never have so few companies controlled so much of the music played on the radio and for sale at retail stores. At the same time, there are more bands and more ways to discover their music than ever. Music seems to have split in two - the homogenous corporate product that is spoonfed to consumers and the diverse independent music that finds devoted fans online and at clubs across the country. BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES tells the story of American music at this precarious moment. Filmmakers Andrew Shapter and Joel Rasmussen traveled the country, hoping to understand why mainstream music seems so packaged and repetitive, and whether corporations really had the power to silence musical innovation. The answers they found on this journey - ultimately, the promise that the future holds - are what makes BEFORE THE MUSIC DIES both riveting and exhilarating.

In the near future gas prices have reached astronomical highs nearing $40 a gallon. One man, Archie Andrews, an environmentalist elementary school teacher, is trying to discover an alternate fuel source. While experimenting with wheat grass, Archie accidentally stumbles upon a solution. That solution turns out to be blood. HUMAN BLOOD!

Naive clown with a fabulous act and a heart of gold wants to join the circus. Unfortunately he ends up in the wrong place: A circus where the manager is apathetic, the ballerina has had enough, and the horse is on prescription drugs…

George W. Bush chooses Crawford, Texas to build his ranch before becoming president. Locals find financial benefits but at what cost? As their fortunes rise and fall, they discuss the circus that followed Bush to town and honestly wonder why he chose Crawford to build his ranch in the first place.

A surrealistic fable on the world to come the portrayal of a corrupt society infested by machines, that has forgotten the human being, a future in which there is still place for hope: Flowers can grow again.