 The Night Watch
(Richard Laxton (2011) Great Britain 90 mins.)
Produced for the BBC the Screen Adaptation of Sarah Water’s novel follows the lives of 4 Londoners during the backdrop of Post World War II. Flashbacks to during and preceding the World War enlightens the relationships and how they were forged. A truly epic film. With Full Cut Suits (Daniel Azarian 2011, USA 4 mins). An androgynous recluse, who thinks of herself as the 1930 underground transgender jazz Artist Billy Tipton, discusses her love of jazz in this rare interview.
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 Amphetamine
(Scud, 2010, China 97 min )
Director Scud, Hong Kong’s unique self financed auteur continues to make films that cannot be screened in his homeland due to gay themes and copious male nudity. In his latest film, Kafka, a straight fitness trainer meets Daniel, a passionate executive who happens to be gay. The young men fatefully fall in love and believe that their love can bridge anything, even their difference in sexuality and Kafka's drug habits. Daniel does not regret his love for Kafka, who tries to love him back against his nature. But a dreadful memory from Kafka's past makes it difficult for their relationship to work. It turns out that their addiction to love proves more fatal than the drugs they use to explore the boundaries  of their friendship.
With The Queen (USA, 2009, 8 min.) A Korean-American boy working in his parents' dry cleaning shop during prom weekend imagines what his fantasy prom date would be like.
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