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The first feature from Colorado native Tomas Herrera is a contemporary
comedy about three friends who meet during a convenience store robbery.
What makes this robbery so unusual? It's Danny, the store clerk, who
is robbing the customers. One twisted summer night Danny, Toby, Kelly
and Ray are dumped into a friendship forged on a robbery gone wrong.
The four young leads encounter police, chiropractors, a fanatic busload
of patriots and a wandering stranger named Opus (who just might represent
Divine intervention in human form). Trying to reunite and get the
money back to Danny, our heros skirt the dark side of fate and learn
the existential truth of fast food, fast money, fast times, and what
happens when you "super size" it. |
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This family oriented picture is the exciting story of a grandfather’s perilous search through rugged mountain wilderness for Carla, his lost little granddaughter with the help of his famous "tracking" mule. Despite a fierce mountain storm, a maurading mountain lion, a perilous fall from a high rugged cliff face and other hardships, both Grandpa and the local sheriff's authorities race against time to try and save the young girl. However, Moosie is also a poignant story of a too-busy father, a "high roller" financial executive, buying everyone and everything, finding out that neither his money nor his cell phone have any value in the wilderness. He must seriously revamp priorities if he is to save his marriage, help his father-in-law, and save his little girl. Released to televison, cable, and home video. Winner, 1999
Videographer Award of Excellence in Children's Programming |
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Raising The StakesDirector: Ryan SmithCinematographer: Jim Furrer Cerulean Films, USA (1997) 88 minutes / color / 35mm release |
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This "serio-comic modern
urban drama" centers around Joseph Will, a displaced twenty-something
Gen-Xer who finds himself stuck in a dead-end job, a girl friend he can't
commit to, and a growing sense of despair. When circumstances find him
uncomfortably steered into a gay dance bar, he spots Lana, the woman of
all his secret dreams. But she has a dangerous partner in Donovan, and
Joseph soon learns there's much more to being a member of the pair's dark
underworld circle when he's pulled dangerously near drugs, toward male
prostitution, and deep into a dangerous crowd of unsettling acquaintances.
Mistaken for gay, Joseph is sucked deeper and deeper across a razor-thin
line half-way between pretending and deceit, because the only way he can
safely stay near the woman he loves is to try and to pass... as gay. For
Joseph, it soon becomes a deadly charade.  Click here to view "Stakes" trailer on the web
Click here to view the poster Click here for Kodak interview with Jim Furrer on this film |
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Tantalus, Behind The MaskDirector: Dirk Olson |
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Produced for the stage
by the Denver Center Theatre Company in partnership with England's Royal
Shakespeare Company, the stage plays of "Tantalus" first premiered to a
world audience in Denver, during the fall of 2000. This resulting film
documentary gives unique, behind-the scenes access into the nine long
months of rehearsal and preparation that went into the epic world stage
premiere. Like a fly on the wall, Behind The Mask chronicles
the mammoth undertaking, with unprecedented access to agonizing
rehearsals, the complicated stage and prop construction, mask and
costuming fabrication, and the human toil and conflict that accompanies
any such mix of international creative energies and egos. The technical
challenges of staging the mammoth work (running time so long it must be
presented over two days) and the clash of wills striving to find common
ground while the six-million dollar budget spirals wildly out of control
make this "film behind the play" intriguing to fascinated
movie-goers.
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Click here to view "Sign" trailer on the web
Click here to view the poster
Click here to view "Moosie" trailer on the web
Click here to view the poster
Click here to view "Tantalus" on the PBS website