Slamdance Film Festival 2010

Don't let the special low price fool you. Here are six brand spanking new $99 Specials and boy, do they offer the viewer tremendous value for the money. With 99 days and $99 in your pocket you never know what will be produced out of this filmmaking experiment. In a profession where it's not easy to practice your craft, the intention of the 99 is to do exactly that. And sometimes they deliver big results.

Synopsis: American Jihadist is a look at militant Islam through the eyes of an African- American who fought and almost died for it. This is the story of Isa Abdullah Ali, aka Clevin Raphael Holt, an African- American Muslim from the ghettos of Washington, DC, labeled a “known terrorist” by the U.S. Defense Department though he’s never been charged with any crime. Ali fought for six years in Lebanon and Bosnia and was shot multiple times for, as he puts it, “the pleasure of God by taking a stand to help the ill treated and oppressed.” What makes a person willing to pick up a gun for their religion? Are the underlying causes purely religious? Or might religious militancy be a means of addressing chronic social, economic and political issues? And what do the answers mean for the wider Islamic World? These questions underlie American Jihadist. Director Bio: Mark Claywell, CEO of Hype Media, directed numerous national advertising spots for Nike, AT&T, and many others. He is developing A Spark In the Darkness, a documentary on Larimer Mellon, heir to one of the largest fortunes in the world, who dedicated his life and fortune to improving health care in Haiti. American Jihadist is his first film. War Story: In January 2007 the Washington Post revealed the Blue Game Matrix, a secret US program targeting members of Hezbollah, which the US suspected of training insurgents in Iraq. When we landed in Lebanon shortly afterward to interview members of Hezbollah, our crew was suspected of being a CIA hit team.

An intimate portrait of master monologist Spalding Gray, as described by his most critical, irreverent and insightful biographer: Spalding Gray.

Synopsis: BIKER FOX is the story of Frank P. DeLarzelere III aka Biker Fox, Tulsa, Oklahoma's misunderstood motivational bicyclist, nature conservationist and muscle car guru. Part-documentary and part-self-help testimonial, the film navigates the uneasy relationships DeLarzelere has with both the city of Tulsa and himself, as his Biker Fox character's intentions of spirited goodwill sometimes neglect certain boundaries. Director Bio: Jeremy Lamberton lives and works as a filmmaker and photographer on his family’s ranch in Tulsa, Oklahoma. This is his feature directorial debut. He is co-founder and director of TULSA OVERGROUND, an annual film festival showcasing the world’s most innovative short films and videos. War Story: The making of this film was not without turmoil. During production, Biker Fox was arrested three times for various bicycle related traffic violations and subsequently charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor. In addition, he was issued at least 50 tickets. “Both felonies have been resolved favorably for Biker and the misdemeanor is still pending in the Tulsa municipal court system.” – Bill LaFortune, Biker Fox’s lawyer His home was burglarized three times, resulting in the theft of all camera equipment (two Sony Mini DV, one Canon XL2, two Sony HD cameras), 6 televisions, 3 computers, and Biker Fox’s entire collection of trademark dangling earrings.

Before Jason Bourne insisted that action cinema start taking itself seriously, there was a time when muscle-bound macho men would break arms, sever limbs and spit one-liners without ever hesitating to muse about rules, consequences or ethical behavior. That time was the 1980s. Those men had names like Arnold, Sly, Dolph and Chuck. PG-13 was not in their vocabulary. And you can bet your ass it's not in Sean Sharpstone's either.

A New York neighborhood. Chaz is a musician way down on his luck. A drifter with ambitions of grift. In the middle of a scheme in a computer repair shop, by chance he meets the beautiful Poly, a DJ. . . .She saves his day.

Coming of age in an American fight club.