There's this fantastic improv show on WNYC called "The Truth". Headed up by a chap named Jonathan Mitchell, these guys generate a story, usually dark and ironic, and then workshop the hell out of it with their ridiculously talented cast, then edit it down into something succinct and powerful. All of their pieces are worth a listen, but this one, called "That's Democracy", I knew at once would make a tremendous short film. Jon Bowden and I contacted TheTruth in New York, and managed to strong-arm them into letting us to turn their podcast into a film. And so here it is...
After a local woman is murdered, a group of teenage liars create a warning e-mail of a serial killer...
6th-grader Terkel begins experiencing a streak of bad luck after sitting on a black spider. His teac...
A group of film students set out to finish filming a movie that was never completed after its direct...
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skep...
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people aroun...
After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager dis...
Set on an island off the coast, a techno rave party attracts a diverse group of college coeds and a ...
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...
In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took par...
Six students go to the Baltic island of Nordström with their archeology professor. The island has it...
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to dia...
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to re...
It is the dawn of World War III. In mid-western America, a group of teenagers band together to defen...
Molly Stewart, a teen at the top of her class who survives by working nights as a prostitute on Holl...
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an ...
A law student takes a job as a night watchman at a morgue and begins to discover clues that implicat...
Two girls take justice into their own hands after friends and counselors brush aside their accusatio...
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two white men who raped his 10-year-old daug...
A dramatic investigation into the mind of violent individuals by following a school shooter in the d...
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monito...