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Conned is the story of a crumbling Boston Underworld that is being run aground by the eccentric and dysfunctional criminals deemed unworthy of being jailed. There is one last big prize remaining, the biggest horse race that everyone knows is being fixed and they are desperate to cash in on it for one last grab at fabulous wealth, not knowing they are being conned, in a nasty twist of fate.

After a new neighbor moves in across the street, two retirees compete for the first, original print of a local newspaper and learn that life is not a competition.

Scott McGruder wakes up one day and decides that living with his Aunt and best friend at age 40 is getting pretty old. He decides to grow up and move on. Can he find the perfect job and the perfect girl? Not if his neighborhood has anything to say about it...

One man struggles to regain his life after losing everything

When a teenager runs from his problems he runs into himself.

Synopsis: A Hitch Hiker Reveals a Dark Truth. "Along a Dark Road", Written by Bryan Casey, is a Horror Story Short in the vain of Hitchcock Presents, complete with Rich Black/White Cinematography by Jill Poisson and Period appropriate Credits by Aaron Poisson.

"Shadow Glories" is a powerfully dramatic, action-packed story of a down-and-burned-out, middle-aged man who was once contender for the world heavyweight kickboxing title. Now struggling to rebuild his shattered life, he attempts to make his way back home to his lost love and his one last chance at redeeming his tortured soul. Along the way, his newfound morals and ethics are put to the ultimate test when he agrees to train a fiery young martial artist to take on his archrival, the blood lusting, up-and-coming heavyweight kickboxing champion of the world.

One of the few fully bilingual American independent films, this dramatic and hilarious story celebrates how a Puerto Rican mother and daughter confront a lost father, lost language, and lost love. Misunderstood and equally stubborn, these women clash powerfully and comically until they realize how much they need each other.

Katherine Moss, aka "MOSSY", is one of a few who left the working class town of Wiley, Massachusetts in order to pursue a higher education. Four years later and now graduated, she must come home to Wiley and rediscover who she really is, and where she might be going. Mossy reunites with her three best friends, one a fisherman, one a do-gooder, and one an on again off again love, all of whom are experiencing the height of what it means to leave youth and family behind in order to start new lives as responsible young adults- all of whom are making their way through their own Gypsy Years, trying to find independence, and hoping to find their futures and happiness waiting and ready on the other side.

Filmed in May of 1997 on Lake Champlain in Vermont, "The Wedding Band" is about a Jewish/Catholic wedding. Jon Fishman is the band's drummer, and performs (in a pink dress) with Hebber Stebber (played by Burlington musician Chad Hollister), Barry Goudreau (late Boston guitarist), Deborah (a.k.a. Debbie) Gibson, and Dom DeLuise.

Same Difference is an urban drama about AIDS. It deals with these issues through an artistic medium, so that large numbers in our cross-cultural and cross-generational community will identify with it in productive ways. This is a community collaboration between Waterspill Junction, directed by Rose Weaver, John Hope Settlement House, and the Providence Film Commission.

The story centers on their characters, Wil and Martha, who are getting married a week after the film begins. That week they run a gauntlet of advice and comments from friends and relatives which encourages doubts Wil and Martha have about getting married. The climax of the film happens in a roadside cabin in rural Maine where Wil and Martha hole up away from everyone to deal with those doubts.

The film is based on John Irving’s novel about Wilbur Larch, a young physician who offers women either "an orphan or an abortion" in early 20th century rural Maine.

Art dealer Hyman Swetzoff was murdered in Boston in 1968. The murder, rumored to be "gay-related", remains unsolved. In this lush, personal film, his daughter tells the story of Hyman's life, death, and her struggles to make sense of his homicide.

An atmospheric tale about the spirits of the dead trapped by the feelings of the living.

12 year old Nora lives in a small town with her nervous mother Dolores. Her three siblings died in a car crash before she was born, and mother attempted suicide. Nora first moves away from her mother to leave with her cold aunt Rose and later returns home to help her father Martin to raise her younger siblings.

A lone Vermont woodsman commits an accidental murder and finds love with the only witness, a young Chinese woman. Their fragile intimacy is threatened by the authorities, determined to find a suspect.

"I Love My Movie" tells the story of Hilary Weisman, a desperate filmmaker who steals a camera in order to make a movie. Shot in the guise of a documentary, Hilary and her friends travel cross-country in order to sell the stolen camera in the Mexican black market to raise post-production money.

An animated love story between a blue shoe and a green boot. -Recently featured in Animation World Magazine, critic Marcy Gardner called The Blue Shoe "an eloquent combination of movement, stillness and storytelling that allows us to put our heart into the soul of this little shoe. Reynolds creates adult children's stories that satiate and remind us to go outside of the lines. After seeing the film I remember feeling like somehow a light had been turned on inside of me."