Director: Anna Biller

Starring: Anna Biller, Jared Sanford, Bridget Brno, Chad England, Marcus DeAnda, John Klemantaski

Year: 2007

Runtime: 120 mins.

Synopsis: Viva is a cult freak-out retro 1970′s spectacle, about a bored housewife who gets sucked into the sexual revolution. Abandoned by her perfect Ken-doll husband, Barbi is dragged into trouble by her girlfriend, who spouts women’s lib as she gets Barbi to discard her bra and go out on the town. Barbi becomes a Red Riding Hood in a sea of wolves, and quickly learns a lot more than she wanted to about the different kinds of scenes going on in the wild ’70′s, including nudist camps, the hippie scene, orgies, bisexuality, sadism, drugs, and bohemia. (From Anna Biller’ website)

DVD: Released by Cult Epics

Official Website: Anna Biller website

Reviews: Variety (Dennis Harvey)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Short End Magazine (Noralil Ryan Fores)
Alternative Film Guide (Keith Waterfield)
Onion A.V. Club (Noel Murray)

Film Festivals: All 2007: Boston Underground Film Festival, New York Underground Film Festival, San Antonio Underground Film Festival, Atlanta Underground Film Festival, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Lausanne Underground Film Festival

Awards: 2007 Boston Underground Film Festival Best of Fest

Video: Trailer

Director: Robin Franzi

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 2007

Runtime: 54 mins.

Synopsis: This film is a memorably vivid and unflinching exploration of this widely practiced and yet little known genre of alternative sexuality. The individuals portrayed convey how BDSM is practiced in a consensual manner.

DVD: Susan for Now

Official Website: None

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Prost Amerika (unknown)

Film Festivals: Seattle True Independent Film Festival, Seattle, WA (2007)
Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY (2007)
Melbourne Underground Film Festival, Melbourne, Australia (2007)
Seattle Sex Positive Community Center, Seattle, WA (2007)
Portland International Film Festival – public review with Warren Etheredge, Portland, OR (2007)
Cinekink Film Festival, New York City, NY, San Francisco, CA (2008)
Golden Gate Fiction & Documentary Film Festival, San Francisco, CA (2008)
New Filmmakers, Los Angeles (2008)
Fetisch Film Festival, Kiel, Germany (2008)

Video: Trailer

Director: Bob Moricz

Starring: Angela Hansen, Keith Lowell Jensen, Amy Nathman, Samantha Krenn, Justin Morris, Nick Roberts, Robbie Pratt, Steven Buell, Quenton Hamlin

Year: 2007

Runtime: 70 mins.

Synopsis: There’s a new family in the town of Lydiaville. The Griepers, rich off Methuseleh’s (Keith Lowell Jensen) television ministry, move into the house on the hill and the Cosgraves are not too happy about it. Meanwhile, the Cosgraves’ arch enemies, the Montgomerys, have lost their entire fortune and a Turkish gangster (Dutch Falconi) is after an old debt owed by patriarch Barry (Steven Buell). These three warring clans fight dirty. Palace of Stains has a cast of 56 and was shot in one day. (From Moricz’s website.)

DVD: None

Official Website: Listing on Epiphany Sink

Reviews: Portland Mercury (Courtney Ferguson)

Film Festivals: Portland Underground Film Festival (2008)

Video: Trailer

Director: Anthony Rivero Stabley

Starring: Pilar Padilla, Sol Gallardo, Mauricio Acle, Rayo Rojas

Year: 2007

Runtime: 46 mins.

Synopsis: Marta’s Sex Tape is an Award Winning Pop Art Film about a starving Artist who decides to make a very special movie in order to raise some much needed cash. It’s also very much about the fears that come into play when Artists finally expose their work out into the public.

Writer-Director: Anthony Rivero Stabley
Producers: Mariana Kahlo, Marco Niro, Mario De Mendoza
Mexico City / Super Grande Films

DVD: Available from the filmmaker

Official Website: Marta’s Sex Tape

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Arizona International Film Festival (Unknown)
Lavender Magazine (John Townsend)

Film Festivals: Miami Underground Film Festival (2008), Arizona International Film Festival (2008), Minneapolis Underground Film Festival (2008)

Awards: Best Foreign Film (Miami Underground Film Festival)

Video: Trailer

Director: Martha Colburn

Starring: Not Applicable

Year: 2007

Runtime: 3 mins.

Synopsis: A paint-on-glass and collage animation, Destiny Manifesto fuses paintings of the American western frontier and contemporary images of the conflict in the Middle East into a work that explores the visual and psychological parallels between the representation of these two periods. (courtesy of Colburn official site)

DVD: None

Official Website: Colburn’s official site

Reviews: None

Video: Excerpt

Director: Carlos Atanes

Starring: Oriol Aubets, Anthony Blake, Manuel Solas, Abel Folk, Joan Frank Charansonnet, Hans Richter, Karen Owens, Manuel Masera, Beatriz Urzaiz, Quim Castella Enric Cervera, Arantxa Pena

Year: 2007

Runtime: 116 mins.

Synopsis:A renowned SF writer is at a local convention to talk about his work.As he takes the podium he renounces his work as utter fictional rubbish and declares that he has found a portal to another world, orbiting the star PROXIMA. “Simply listen to my new book-on-CD and be delivered”, he proclaims. Unsurprisingly, this bizarre announcement is not well received by his fans. But Tony, the owner of a specialist DVD and video store is attending the conference, and being an open-minded dreamer buys the disc to try it out. (from official site)

DVD: Fort Knox

Official Website: Welcome to Proxima

Reviews: Bad Lit (Mike Everleth)
Film Fanaddict (David Carter)
The SF, Horror and Fantasy Film Review (Richard Scheib)
Science Fiction & Fantasy Media (Gerard Wood)

Awards: 2008 Ignotus Award: Best Film (nominated)

Video: Trailer