The First Purge explorează felul în care guvernul decide să legalizeze toate delictele timp de o noapte pe an, și masacrul care rezultă din "First Purge". În spatele fiecărei tradiții se află o revoluție. Următoarea Zi a Independenței va fi martora apariției evenimentului anual al celor 12 ore de anarhie ale țării. Bine ați venit în mișcarea care a început ca un simplu experiment: The First Purge. Pentru a împinge rata criminalității sub un procent pentru restul anului, New Founding Fathers of America (NFFA) testează o teorie sociologică care permite eliberarea agresivității timp de o singură noapte într-o comunitate izolată. Dar când violența asupritorilor se întâlnește cu furia celor marginalizați, contaminarea va exploda de la granițele orașului experiment și se va răspândi peste națiune.
Nemulţumită de slujbă şi de relaţia cu prietenul său, un adevărat pierde-vară, Tess McGill decide să îşi schimbe viaţa. Se angajează în postul de secretară la o firmă importantă, de pe Wall Street. Şefa sa, interpretată de Sigourney Weaver, este o adevărată femeie de afaceri, a cărei figura aparent amabilă ascunde o fire răutăcioasă. Katherine Parker are prostul obicei de a îşi însuşi ideile angajaţilor săi, fără a le acorda măcar o simplă mulţumire.
În urma unui accident, Katherine este pusă în imposibilitatea de a mai merge la birou, iar Tess este obligată de împrejurări să îi ţină locul în faţa unor clienţi noi.
Simţul afacerist înnăscut, cantitatea considerabilă de bun simţ şi imaginaţia bogată, o ajută pe Tess să pătrundă în cele mai înalte cercuri de afaceri New Yorkeze. Pe parcursul asscensiunii, ea se îndrăgosteşte de Jack Trainer, director executiv al firmei şi iubitul înţepatei Katherine.
La ani de zile după moartea tatălui său, care era pompier, un artist-tatuator își pierde ultima fărâmă de stabilitate când mama lui începe să se vadă cu un alt pompier.
Lisa Spinelli is a Staten Island teacher who is unusually devoted to her students. When she discovers one of her five-year-olds is a prodigy, she becomes fascinated with the boy, ultimately risking her family and freedom to nurture his talent.
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
Realizing the urban legend of their youth has actually come true, two filmmakers delve into the mystery surrounding five missing children and the real-life boogeyman linked to their disappearances.
A dangerously disturbed Vietnam veteran struggles with life 15 years after his return home, and slowly falls into insanity from his gritty urban lifestyle.
Knock Knock is a horror film that combines fear with revenge, hate with justice and responsibility with sacrifice. The bible says an "Eye for an Eye." Rico was just a big fun loving son of a hard working neighborhood business man. The problem is his dad is an undertaker. Some popular high school Students thought he was weird because of it. Rico kept to himself...
In the winter of 2014, a tragedy struck Staten Island Zoo in New York City. During the annual celebrations for Groundhog Day, beloved groundhog Staten Island Chuck was dropped to the ground, dying a week later. Staten Island Zoo took a further six months to publicly announce Chuck’s death. This blistering exposé delivers justice to Chuck the Groundhog, exposing the truth about his death.
Over 30 sentences across 7 cities across North America are featured in this crowdsourced short film! Check out this story about how a local couple from the late 80s faces love’s trials and tribulations over the course of 30 years. *DISCLAIMER: Everyone on set tested negative for COVID and provided documentation for the rapid/PCR tests prior to going to set. All spaces used by crew and cast members were deep cleaned, sanitized, and disinfected within a 12-hour window of their arrival, and again immediately after cast and crew left the space.
Mariners Marsh, Bloomfield, Watchogue, Old Place. History, mythology, nature, anthropogenic industry, and digitally-demarcated landscape collide in the salt meadows and brownfield beaches of northwestern Staten Island. A human-haunted nature film. All stories are ghost stories. Narration drawn from the writings of Staten Island's preeminent historian, naturalist, and mythographer William T. Davis (1862 - 1945).
This short experimental film follows two energetic college students over a day around various locations in three boroughs of New York City.
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United States' only existing native martial culture, as it is indeed, the jazz of the martial arts world. Across the African diaspora, there are manifestations of African-derived warrior-dances, capoeira in brazil, mani in Cuba, ladja in Martinique, pinge in Haiti- yet the US offshoot has remained esoteric, because it was suppressed throughout slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow and then obscured in the criminal justice system. The history, interviews and training of the martial arts style that created Breakdance and boxing greats like Mike Tyson.
Vignettes of the twenties showing some of the newer original gowns of the period Ava-Graph has acquired. In color.